State of Texas - Defense Innovation Ecosystem
Abstract
Since the enactment of the Budget Control Act 2011, Department of Defense spending decreased by $119B from Fiscal Year 2012 to 2018. As a state with the third-largest amount of defense contracting activity in the nation, Texas and its corresponding defense supply chain, are particularly vulnerable to these decreases and subsequent fluctuations. To ensure resilience in the supply chain in this environment, the State of Texas, via the University of Texas at Austin, will carry out a series of activities to strengthen the ability of innovation-based companies to endure continuing uncertainty in defense spending, ultimately improving the resilience and responsiveness of this critical segment. The activities of this grant provide an approach to (1) identify problems within the state’s defense manufacturing and innovation sector (2) identify resources, prioritize their application ideate solutions, and scale useful outcomes. This “Texas Defense/Aerospace Innovation Ecosystem” proposal focuses on large-scale acceleration of dual use technologies critical to missions of Army Futures Command (AFC), Defense Innovation Unit (DIU/NSIN), AFWERX, and others. As a direct result, it will also achieve the state’s goal of defense industry resilience while also generating better integrated support to DoD’s goal of preserving and expanding our military advantage by delivering technology faster than our adversaries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 09, 2020
- Source ID
- HQ00052010019
Entities
People
- Diane Skubal
Organizations
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- University of Texas at Austin