SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Chief Technology Officer

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SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Chief Technology
Officer

• Presented by
• Gary Wang
• Chief Technology Officer
• SSC San Diego
• phone [phone]
• e-mail gary.wang_at_navy.mil
• Champion Leadership and Innovation

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Outline

• My agenda
• Center stats/environment
• Funding overview
• Vehicles to conduct business with Center
• Challenges for transition/Summary
• Another perspective-Technology Transfer

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CTO Agenda

• Contributing to the strategic direction, by
  identifying, the
• role specific technologies will play in the
  future growth of
• the organization
• Be part of a strong internal network of ST
  people
• Have robust external partnerships with industry,
  academia, and government
• Convert technology into Naval capabilities
  rapidly, affordably and efficiently

Leveraging technology is the key to both force
modernization and transformation to preserve the
decisive U.S. advantage across the range of
military operations. Naval Transformation Roadmap
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SSC San Diego ST Workforce
Scientists and Engineers PhDs Masters Technical
Society Fellows Patents Awarded/yr Refereed
Articles/yr Conference Presentations/yr
1941 8 28 20 26 81 74
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SSC San Diego Research in the Backyard of
Operational Navy
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MILES
1 MEF MCB CAMP PENDLETON
MCAS MIRAMAR
SSC SAN DIEGO/SPAWAR OLD TOWN CAMPUS
SSC SAN DIEGO
COAST GUARD
COMNAVAIRFOR
THIRD FLEET
NAVY REGION SOUTHWEST
NAS NORTH ISLAND
CARRIER GROUPS ONE, THREE AND SEVEN
NAVAL STATION SAN DIEGO
Technology Transition Plus Waterfront Presence
SUBPAC REP
NAVAL BASE POINT LOMA
AMPHIBIOUS GROUP THREE
SPECWARCOM
COMNAVSURFOR
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San Diego is the IT Research Hub of the Nation

• Qualcomm, Inc
• SAIC
• Nokia Mobile
• Phones
• ViaSat
• Leap Wireless
• Kyocera America
• Titan Wireless
• Applied Micro
• Circuits Corp.
• Wireless Facilities
• Siemens

Best place in country for business and
careers - Forbes magazine

• San Diego is the hot
• spot for careers in
• information technology
• Kaplan Newsweek Careers

UCSD
SDSU
SSC San Diego
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SSC San Diego RDTE 559.3M
ST by PE Category
6.1 29.6M 5
6.3 101.6M 19


RDTE is 40 of funding and ST is 47 of RDTE
6.2 129.5M 23
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SSC San Diego - University Teaming
Teaming with Academia

• Center for Commercialization of Advanced
  Technology (CCAT)
• SSC San Diego, Lockheed Martin, SDSU, and UCSD
  identify technologies that have commercial or
  dual-use potential for DoD Provides
  opportunities for spin-off of SSC SD
  technologies.
• 5M - FY05, 8M - FY 04 6M - FY 03

STUDENT RECRUITMENT IAR / ILIR CORPORATE
AFFILIATES PROGRAM _at_ UCSD DEANS ADVISORY
BOARD MEMBER _at_ SDSU
NREIP SAN DIEGO STATE FOUNDATION CAL (IT)2
COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FELLOWSHIPS / SUMMER
FACULTY / SABBATICALS /
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Teaming with Industry
SSC San Diego - Industry Teaming

• Sales of Articles or Services Agreements (10
  U.S.C. 2563)
• 28 executed since Dec 1998
• Total value of these agreements exceeds 25M
• Agreements have involved major corporations and
  small businesses
• Agreements have been in place for most major DoN
  Ship Construction project as well as several
  other DoD programs

• Work for Others Agreements (10 U.S.C. 2539(b))
  
• 16 executed during FY04
• Total value of these agreements exceeds 1.3M
• Agreements have involved major corporations and
  small businesses

• Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
  (CRADA)
• These are with both Industry and Academia
• Total value of the FY04 agreements approx 350K

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Approach

• Work closely with customers to determine needs
  and requirements
• Proactively scan technology
• Plan technology development, insertion and
  transition
• Team with sponsors and developers
• Act as honest broker to leverage investments

Through efficient application of scientific and
technical expertise, innovation, planning, and
dedicated effort, we will develop, assemble,
and integrate the requisite technology to create
quality, affordable, integrated systems. SSC San
Diego Strategic Plan
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TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVELS
TRL 9 Actual system mission proven through
successful mission operations Actual system fully
demonstrated. TRL 8 Actual system completed and
mission qualified through test and
demonstration in an operational environment Fully
integrated with operational hardware and software
systems. Most user documentation, training
documentation, and maintenance documentation
completed. All functionality tested in simulated
and operational scenarios. VV completed. TRL 7
System prototype demonstration in high-fidelity
environment Most functionality available for
demonstration and test. Well integrated with
operational hardware/software systems. Most
software bugs removed. Limited documentation
available. TRL 6 System/subsystem prototype
demonstration in a relevant end-to-end
environment Prototype implementations on full
scale realistic problems. Partially integrated
with existing hardware/software systems. Limited
documentation available. Engineering feasibility
fully demonstrated. TRL 5 Module and/or
subsystem validation in relevant environment
Prototype implementations conform to target
environment / interfaces. Experiments with
realistic problems. Simulated interfaces to
existing systems. TRL 4 Module and/or subsystem
validation in laboratory environment Standalone
prototype implementations. Experiments with full
scale problems or data sets. TRL 3 Analytical
and experimental critical function and/or
characteristic proof-of-concept Limited
functionality implementations. Experiments with
small representative data sets. Scientific
feasibility fully demonstrated. TRL 2 Technology
concept and/or application formulated Basic
principles coded. Experiments with synthetic
data. Mostly applied research. TRL 1 Basic
principles observed and reported Basic properties
of algorithms, representations concepts.
Mathematical formulations. Mix of basic and
applied research.
LRIP
EMD
ADM
6.3
6.2
6.1
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Tech Transition
Bridging the Gap
Impediments
Valley of Death
ST
Acquisition
TRL 7
TRL 5
Transition-oriented Programs

• Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs)
• ACTDs
• Rapid Tech Transition (RTT)
• OSD TTI, DACP
• SBIR/STTR
• ManTech
• Sea Trial Interface

• Emerging -- Rapid Response for GWOT (JRAC, NaIL,
  )

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Our Role as Chief Technology Officer for SPAWAR
and the PEOs

• Enable Decision Makers
• Discover, develop and integrate technology be
  honest broker
• Provide expertise, experience and
  independent/objective test and evaluation to
  enable smart buyer
• Provide critical facilities and ranges necessary
  to support RD, TE and ISE
• Transition Technology
• Insert DARPA, ONR, other technology into Navy
  Concept Development, Experimentation and Systems
  Acquisition
• Generate operational capability concepts
• Be Navys corporate C4ISR technical memory
  including military unique ST
• Provide Warfighting Systems Engineering
• Generate technology and engineering solutions to
  address Fleet requirements and in-service
  problems
• Bridge operational and technical communities

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SSCSD as Transition Agent

• SSCSD Sponsors have multiple transition needs
• Transition Categories
• Project transitions from internal discretionary
  funding to external funding
• Project transitions from one funding category to
  next (e.g. 6.1 to 6.2)
• Project successfully demos or experiments
  technology in fleet/marine exercise with no leave
  behind
• Project leaves behind new capability following
  operational demo
• Industry incorporates technology into product via
  
• Patent Licensing
• Work for Private Party agreements
• CRADAs
• Government customer takes delivery, and funds
  future life cycle support, of capability
• Acquisition Program of Record inserts new
  technology for first time in delivery to customer

We now track transitions by category
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Summary

• Matching of technology to operational
  requirements (including technology push)
• Being a smart buyer, integrator and user
• Addressing Over-Arching Issues
• Integration End-to-End, Multi-System, Multi Site
• Interoperability Naval, Joint, Coalition
• Employing new industry/government business models
• Leveraging Long-Term Infrastructure Investments
• Facilities Labs, testbeds, connectivity
• Corporate Knowledge and Experience

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Strategic Responsibilities

• Surveying the technology landscape
• Monitor, assessing and mapping
• Champion Strategic Innovation
• BSC Owner, idea creation
• Government, Academia, Industry and Professional
  relationships
• Increasing our intellectual capital
• Building value

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• Office of Research and Technical Applications
  (ORTA)
• Stephen Lieberman, Ph.D.
• SPAWARSYSCEN, San Diego 2112
• T2_at_spawar.navy.mil

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What is the ORTA?Office of Research and
Technical Applications

• The Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980 established an
  Office of Research and Technology Applications
  (ORTA) in each laboratory to coordinate and
  promote technology transfer
• The Stevenson-Wydler Act made it easier for
  federal laboratories to transfer technology to
  nonfederal parties and provided outside
  organizations with a means to access federal
  laboratory developments

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Benefits from Inventive Work

• Spin out (licensing) of government developed
  technologies to commercial developers is a cost
  effective vehicle for providing new
  technology/capability to the warfighter
• Tech transfer stimulates entrepreneurial culture
  and generates new ideas
• Partnerships derived from Tech Transfer
  initiatives generate new funding opportunities
• Funding from Cooperative Research and Development
  Agreements (CRADAs) provides means of leveraging
  scarce RD resources
• Licensing of IP provides revenues (royalties) to
  SSC SD and inventors

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SSC SD Patent Portfolio

• Current Portfolio contains approx 250 issued
  patents (another 73 applications in filed status)
• Portfolio of issued patents can be viewed at
  http//www.navytechmatch.com
• Licensing Activity (for 2004)
• Currently 10 active licenses, covering 21 patents
• No new licenses in 2004
• Lab management recognized that to maximize
  benefits from our IP we need to be more effective
  in licensing our IP

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Effort to Invigorate Tech Transfer at SSC SD

• Capt Flynn tasked The Legal Counsel SSC SD to
  explore ways to increase licensing opportunities
  from the inventive work performed at the Center
• Based on recommendations from that study an
  effort was launched to be more proactive in
  commercializing SSC San Diego developed
  technologies
• Tech Transfer responsibilities consolidated
  within ORTA function in FY05

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New Initiatives to Facilitate Tech Transfer

• ORTA Established new partnerships/relationships
  with the business/entrepreneurial community
• San Diego Venture Group
• Tech Coast Angels
• San Diego Software Industry Council (MOU signed
  by CO)
• San Diego Telecom Council (In process of
  establishing MOU)
• Launch Frontiers in Technology Technology
  Showcase in collaboration with UCSD CONNECT
  (supported by CCAT)

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New Initiatives to Facilitate Tech Transfer

• ORTA Established T2 (TechTransfer) Student Intern
  Program (CCAT supported)
• Graduate level student interns from UCSD and San
  Diego State University will support ORTA by
  assisting with identification of commercial
  markets and potential licensees, marketing IP,
  facilitating licensing of technologies,etc.
• Leverage DoD supported partnerships
• Montana State University TechLink program
• TechLink is DoD funded program that matches
  technologies with potential licensees
• Center for Commercialization of Advanced
  Technology (CCAT)
• SSC SD is a partner with SDSU, UCSD and Orincon
  in the ONR supported program that provides
  business services and direct support for
  commercialization of government developed
  technologies

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Progress FY05

• Two new licenses agreements signed this year
• Assure Bioassay Controls Inc, Innovalight
• Two additional license applications submitted to
  T2 office
• Ten licensing deals in discussion
• Signed two new CRADAs
• Softmax, Assure Bioassay Controls Inc.
• Established new partnerships/relationships with
  the entrepreneurial community
• Signed MOU with San Diego Software Industry
  Council
• San Diego Telecom Council (MOU in review process)
• Conducted first Frontiers in Technology
  Technology Showcase in collaboration with UCSD
  CONNECT (supported by CCAT)
• SDSIC  BizDev Forum
• Submitted three technologies to SDSIC
• Developed new T2 marketing materials (Tech
  Transfer Brochure and Opportunities sheets)

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Patents vs. Research
SSC San Diego
Avg 30.1/yr
SSC San Diego 268M/y
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Invention Disclosure Rate2004 2005 compared to
10 year avg.

• 2005 Invention Disclosure Rate comparable with
  average for last 10 years
• 2004 Disclosure Rate slightly higher than average

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T2 Contact Info
T2_at_spawar.navy.mil Stephen H. Lieberman, Ph.D.
619-553-2778 stephen.lieberman_at_navy.mil