National Security Innovation Network
Abstract
NSIN executes the following programs and pilot activities, all of which are designed to enhance DoD’s access to technologists and entrepreneurs for the purposes of improving its talent pool, collaborate with universities and the early-stage venture community to develop novel concepts and solutions to end-user problems and requirements, and prototype and test new technologies to place them on the path to becoming programs of record or integrated with existing platforms. • Technology and National Security Fellowship: a national, one-year fellowship that places STEM graduates into the immediate offices of policy makers in Congress and the Pentagon for the purposes of enhancing technical literacy and improving policy outcomes through informed understanding of emerging and nascent technologies. • Hirethon: a national program that leverages NSIN’s existing and emerging network to pair exceptionally qualified candidates with DoD mission partners that plan to use direct or expedited hiring authorities to aid in job placement. • X-Force Fellowship: a summer fellowship experience for current students that embeds project-based teams of graduate and undergraduate students with DoD mission partners for the purposes of developing early-stage prototypes. Occurs annually from June-August. • Hacks: a national program that provides early-stage concept development and proof of principle solutions to DoD mission partners through dedicated 54-hour hackathons operated in conjunctions with top universities and start-ups throughout the country. • Bootcamp: a national program that provides crowd-sourced solutions for DoD mission partners by deploying faculty from top tier research universities to bases and installations to facilitate early-stage concepts for technology and policy-based problems. • Capstone: a national program that pairs prototyping development needs for DoD mission partners with extant engineering capstone courses from top tier research universities throughout the country. Outputs include TRL-4 prototypes that can undergo testing and evaluation. • Starts: a national program that showcases high-TRL technologies to DoD mission partners for the purposes of enhanced tech scouting and improving technical capability gaps. Teams and companies with the technology that best meets a DoD mission partner’s needs are awarded initial prototyping or testing contracts. • Propel: a national program that partners with commercial incubators and accelerators to sponsor particularly promising technology and early-stage ventures into cohort-based customer discovery that improves DoD end user validation. • National Security Academic Accelerator (NSA2): a national pilot that identifies extant university IP, matches it against DoD mission partner needs, and then commercializes the technology through entrepreneurial training, recruitment, and licensing agreements. Currently being executed at four pilot sites with the intent to expand it to an additional six (6) sites in FY 2022.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 845_0603950D8Z_3_0400_PB_2022
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