Technology Innovation Base

Abstract

The Technology Industrial Innovation Base (TIIB) effort develops near- and long-term strategies and employs mechanisms to retain the U.S. advantage in current and emerging modernization technology priorities by addressing the capabilities of the industrial innovation base to develop, test, manufacture, and sustain them. This project provides support to technology priority leaders in identifying industrial innovation base needs; characterizing and assessing priority technology investments, identifying and mitigating issues and risks impacting the industrial innovation base, and exploiting opportunities to advance technology development, testing, and manufacturing. One of TIIB’s main objectives is to create balance between promotion of the industrial innovation base while protecting the technology from interference or exploitation by competitors. This balance will aid the Department’s advancing critical and emergent technologies ahead of competitor nations and actors while sustaining a healthy, resilient, and globally competitive industrial innovation base. This portfolio of activity extends efforts initiated in response to FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Section 1793. This project uses a three-step approach: (1) Assess, (2) Protect/Promote; and (3) Monitor. In the first step, TIIB uses emerging technology assessments to translate technology needs to manufacturing and industrial innovation base requirements in order to identify industrial innovation base issues, risks, and opportunities. TIIB created an assessment methodology that incorporates four types of studies to provide a full overview of the technology from a manufacturing and industrial innovation base point of view. The results of the assessments are used to generate industrial-innovation-base inputs to technology roadmaps, develop an investment plan addressing the needs of the industrial innovation base, and create technology and industrial innovation base protection and promotion strategies (second step of the approach). TIIB leverages DoD and Federal Government tools and initiatives to implement the strategies. In the third step, TIIB uses data analytics to measure the success of mitigation and exploitation strategies, establish trends in the markets, and identify the need for additional assessments or changes in investments and strategies.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 043_0605797D8Z_6_0400_PB_2024

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• Economics
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Systems Analysis and Design