Technology Transfer

Abstract

Technology Transfer is a critical strategy for the NDS and DoD that makes the best possible use of national scientific, technical resources and information to enhance the effectiveness of DoD forces and warfighting capability systems. The Air Force Technology Transfer program oversees all Air Force inventions/patents and technology transfer agreements. In FY 2012, DoD devolved management of OSD sponsored Partnership Intermediaries (PIAs) to the Air Force (AF). The Air Force Technology Transfer & Transition Office manages the Montana State University's TechLink & MilTech PIAs as well as AF PIAs. TechLink brokered 70% of DoD licenses over the past 10 years. The 646003 project includes the management of DoD/AF PIAs, Federal Lab Consortium Fees, invention disclosure & patent fees, information management data base, travel, training, outreach and tech scouting events. This program impacts virtually all technology fields, including medical, software, electronics, communications, advanced materials, energy-related technologies, and more. This effort support our mission to innovate and modernize DoD weapon systems through collaborative teamwork and strategic partnerships. The AFWERX mission is to transition agile, affordable, and accelerated capabilities by teaming commercial technology developers with Airmen and Guardian talent. AFWERX leverages Spark (the Airmen and Guardian talent base), AFVentures (the dual-use expanded technology base), and Prime to scale and accelerate the capability. Funding in this project supports AFWERX research and development, non-Small Business Innovation Research/ Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) civilian personnel pay, innovation hubs, and non-SBIR/STTR information technology, public affairs, and marketing. The Spark mission is to expand and empower the network of Airmen and Guardian talent that is ready, willing, and able to enhance capability developed with a culture of innovation. AFWERX uses Spark to discover and translate innovative talent into executable projects by facilitating stakeholder alignment through workshops and challenges. This inspires and ignites creativity as well as creates a bridge to the small business ecosystem reached through the SBIR/STTR program. This connection brings together the creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit of small businesses and our Airmen and Guardians to solve Air and Space Force technology and capability gaps. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Technology Transfer capabilities. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. In FY 2022, all efforts and civilian manpower under poject 646030, AFWERX, were realigned from the Air Force Operations and Maintenance (O&M) appropriation, Budget Activity (BA-04), to now use Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation funds. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0604317F_4_3600_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: 1) Increase in FY 2021 of 14 million due to congressional add in project 646003.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Advanced Materials
• Air Force
• Air Force Operations
• Civilian Personnel
• Commerce
• Contracts
• Databases
• Department Of Defense
• Information Systems
• Marketing
• Product Development
• Small Business
• Space Force
• Teamwork
• Technology Transfer
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics
• Space