Spring 2020 Navy Transitions Newsletter is Here!
The Spring 2020 Edition of the Navy's SBIR/STTR Transitions newsletter has just been released.
In this edition Bob Smith, Navy SBIR/STTR Director, discusses the Navy Technology Accelerator, as well as the reengineered SBIR/STTR Transition Program (STP) and its companion Forum for SBIR/STTR Transition (Navy FST).
Also included are articles on Navy SBIR/STTR outreach events and a list of Phase III winners comprising $489,384,003.98 in awards.
DoD FY-2020.2 SBIR Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Opens June 3, 2020 Closes July 2, 2020
The DoD issued its 2020.2 SBIR BAA pre-release on May 6, 2020, which opens to receive proposals on June 3, and closes July 2, 2020.
This BAA is inclusive of 55 Standard Phase I Topics from 6 of the Navy's SYSCOMS, and 1 Direct to Phase II Topic.
Navy BAA Topics & Instructions:
DoD FY-2020.B STTR Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Opens June 3, 2020 Closes July 2, 2020
The DoD issued its 2020.B STTR BAA pre-release on May 6, 2020, which opens to receive proposals on June 3, and closes July 2, 2020.
This BAA is inclusive of 5 Phase I Topics from 1 of the Navy's SYSCOMS.
Navy BAA Topics & Instructions:
DoD BAA Submission & Instructions (DSIP):
DON FY-20.4 SBIR Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Opened April 27, 2020 Closes May 28, 2020 12:00 noon EDT
On April 13, 2020, the Department of the Navy (DON) issued a 20.4 SBIR Phase I Technology Acceleration BAA, requesting proposals from innovative startups and small businesses that demonstrate development and commercialization of dual-use technologies responsive to topic requirements
while also meeting unmet market demands.
Companies proposing scalable high-impact technologies addressing commercial market needs that can be leveraged by the Navy are strongly encouraged to apply.
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This BAA leverages Navy Technology Acceleration processes resulting in awards within 45 days from the close of this BAA, and initial payments within 15 days of awards.
Submission: Proposals for this BAA will be accepted starting April 27, 2020, and will close May 28, 2020 at 12:00 noon EDT. All proposals
must be submitted through the DoD's Defense SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal (DSIP) at www.dodsbirsttr.mil/submissions.
Topic Questions: Until May 13, 2020, proposers were allowed to submit written questions limited to technical information related to improving the understanding of a topic's requirements.
DON will not respond to technical questions received after this date. Other questions, such as those asking for advice or guidance on solution approach, will not receive a response.
Responses to the questions are public and posted on the 20.4 Navy Topic Q&A page at
navysbir.com/n20_4/n204-topic-qa.htm
Proposal Submission Questions: For questions related to proposal preparation and electronic submission process via the DSIP, please contact the DoD SBIR/STTR Help Desk at 703-214-1333
(from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET Monday through Friday) or by email at dodsbirsupport@reisystems.com
Complete BAA information: The BAA and topic descriptions are available at navysbir.com/topics20_4.htm
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Navy SBIR/STTR Webinar Recording - 5-8-20
As part of the Navy League's Small Business Opportunities Webinar Week, a one hour webinar on the Navy's SBIR/STTR program was presented on May 8, featuring BoB Smith, Director of Navy SBIR/STTR, Steve Sullivan, Program Manager, Navy STTR and STP Programs, and Brian Shipley, Navy SBIR Support Contractor.
The webinar recording (courtesy of the Navy League) is available at youtu.be/ZVsO8ifygdg.
All five webinar presentations from the Navy League's
Small Business Opportunities Series Week, held May 4 - 8, are available at www.navyleague.org/programs/small-business-opportunities-videos.
DoD SBIR 20.4 BAA - Topic N204-A01 Webinar
On April 24 the Navy hosted a webinar on 20.4 BAA Topic N204-A01 - "Naval Depot Modernization and Sustainment" [View Topic].
Mr. Stephen McKee, the Technical Point of Contact (TPOC), conducted the webinar which described the four (4) Focus Areas of the topic, and answered many questions posed by the attendees.
The webinar was recorded and is available in multiple formats at navysbir.com/webinar20-04.htm
Navy Strengthens Defense Industrial Base
with New Small Business Funding Opportunity
To support the national response to the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Department of the Navy (DoN) must leverage and sustain its research-and-development industrial base and attract new
small business partners.
The Navy and Marine Corps are doing so by harnessing the DoN's agile Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs both located at the
Office of Naval Research (ONR). The programs announced today $30 million in rapid-funding opportunities through a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which is a request for scientific or research proposals.
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During this national emergency, the Naval Research Enterprise must engage all activities to ensure we accomplish our current workload, make sure vital naval partners survive current economic conditions, and bring in new partners,
" said DoN SBIR/STTR Director Bob Smith. "I'm proud the DoN SBIR/STTR programs are taking bold steps to maintain the defense industrial base through accelerated funding awards."
The new BAA, titled DoN SBIR FY20.4, will close on May 28. It seeks proposals from innovative small businesses and startups for high-impact, scalable technologies that address both naval requirements and the
needs of the commercial market. Areas of interest to the Navy and Marine Corps include:
- Modernization and sustainment (maintenance and repair of military assets)
- Digital logistics (security, analysis, management and flow of digital information and data)
- Deployable manufacturability (rapid, on-demand manufacturing of deployable systems supporting diverse payloads and missions)
- Resilient communications (expanded communications capabilities for fast, coordinated response during a global crisis)
BAA FY20.4 is just one facet of a broader DoN SBIR/STTR effort to sustain the defense industrial base during the COVID-19 response, by awarding more than $250 million in funding over the next 90 days.
SBIR provides the Navy and Marine Corps with innovative advances in technology created by small businesses while STTR transitions products developed by both small businesses and research institutions.
Navy SBIR/STTR and NavalX
In addition to promoting BAAs like FY20.4, the DoN SBIR/STTR programs also look to strengthen new approaches, like serving as technology enablers for the Naval Expeditions (NavalX) Agility Office created by the Hon. James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition.
NavalX gives Sailors, Marines and DoN civilians tools to put good ideas into action. This enables naval organizations like ONR and SBIR/STTR to better connect warfighters with experts and small businesses.
SBIR/STTR also provides expertise at NavalX's multiple Tech Bridge locations nationwide.
A partnership between ONR, NavalX, the Navy's Technology Transfer Program Office, and all naval systems commands, Tech Bridges are regional innovation hubs where warfare centers, government, academia and industry can team up and work together on technology research, evaluation and commercialization as well as economic and workforce development.
Learn more about the DoN SBIR/STTR programs and BAA FY20.4 at https://www.navysbir.com.
See www.onr.navy.mil/en/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2020/Navy-Strengthens-Defense-Industrial-Base-with-New-SBIR-STTR-BAA
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Navy FST Event Goes Virtual
The Navy Forum for SBIR/STTR Transition (Navy FST) event that was scheduled to take place at the now canceled Sea Air Space (SAS) 2020 conference, has gone virtual and is available for you starting Monday, April 6, 2020 at:
navyfst.com/events/fst-at-sas2020/
Navy FST offers opportunities to connect and learn more about the Phase II technologies ready for transition. The global theater of tech advancement hasn't stopped, and the Navy FST is committed to continuing to facilitate connections between small businesses and warfighters-safely!
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The Navy FST has adapted to provide consistent government and prime acquisition professionals access to transitioning technology during the COVID-19 pandemic via online Tech Talks.
The planned Tech Talks will be posted online by 6 April on the Virtual FST Marketplace: navyfst.com/events/fst-at-sas2020. After viewing the Tech Talks, Navy FST encourages you to contact the small business directly to learn more.
All details are available at: navyfst.com/events/fst-at-sas2020/
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UPDATE: Guidance for Small Business Impacted by Coronavirus
The impacts on small business and the country from Coronavirus, is far reaching and very dynamic. Frequent changes are being made to policies and programs to address these challenges, and these include SBIR/STTR and doing business with the federal government.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has created a special web resource on Coronavirus Assistance and Acquisition-Related Information and Resources located at www.onr.navy.mil/coronavirus.
This site includes guidance from ONR for Current and Prospective Awardees; Contracts & Other Transactions for Current and Prospective Performers; OMB Guidance and Memorandums; and DoD Guidance and Memorandums.
SBA Coronavirus Resources:
The SBA has issued guidance for small R&D businesses interested in SBIR/STTR as it relates to COVID-19 impacts, changes and opportunities. This information is available here at navysbir.com/SBA-COVID-19.htm
The SBA has also created a new website addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) including Small Business Guidance & Loan Resources. This site is for all small businesses and is not an SBIR/STTR specific website.
The SBA website is available at:
www.sba.gov/page/coronavirus-covid-19-small-business-guidance-loan-resources
Changes to the DoD SBIR/STTR Website
Starting with the DoD 20.1 SBIR and 20.A STTR BAAs, the DoD's new SBIR/STTR website is located at:
DoD SITIS, Topics Search, and BAA Instructions are located at:
The DoD's old legacy SBIR/STTR website has been closed. This does not affect the various DoD agency component's SBIR/STTR websites such as navysbir.com
Previous Navy SBIR/STTR Topic information and search is available here at navysbir.com/previous.htm
This new and important study quantifies the DoD SBIR/STTR Program's overall contribution to the nation's economy and defense mission. It examines the economic outcomes and impacts up to 2018 from
DoD SBIR/STTR Phase II contracts initiated during the 1995-2012 fiscal year (FY) period, providing definitive answers to the question:
What resulted from the DoD's investment of $14.4 billion in small business R&D funding provided to companies nationwide via 16,959 separate SBIR/STTR Phase II contracts?
In all, this study presents the economic outcomes of 16,516 of the 16,959 DoD SBIR/STTR contracts--over 97 percent.
ASN (RD&A) Geurts Issues Memo on Small Business Utilization for a Strategic Advantage
James Geurts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition (ASN (RD&A)) brings to Naval warfighters his rich SOCOM experience in delivering innovation, faster, through new collaborations and inventive practices.
Mr. Geurts' most recent guidance to DoN acquisition teams on small business and SBIR/STTR conveys the imperative role Small Business play as DoN team members and their contribution to DoN's success in meeting the National Defense Strategy (NDS). As such, the instruction calls for Acquisition Commands and Program Executive Officers (PEOs) to prioritize utilization of Small Business and includes these critical SBIR/STTR points:
- DoN acquisition teams focus on reviewing and assessing SBIR/STTR capabilities in developing acquisition strategies - and such strategies should address incentives for SBIR/STTR use.
- Acquisition Commands and PEOs should leverage "agile, time-saving authorities" of the Phase III award process - without further competition - where this action meets performance and affordability mandates.
- The memo concludes with an emphatic challenge: "Enhanced implementation of the Small Business Program will require .changing the way we do acquisition."
National Economic Impact Report of the Navy
SBIR/STTR Program FY-2000-2013
The Department of the Navy (DON) SBIR/STTR leadership commissioned a study to measure commercialization and related economic impacts of nearly $2.3 billion in DON SBIR/STTR Phase II contractual investment over FY2000 - 2013.
During that period, DON SBIR/STTR made 2,734 separate Phase II awards to 1,199 small businesses in virtually every U.S. state. Some of the findings include:
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Commercialization results:
$7 billion in sales of new capabilities and products to the U.S. military
$14.2 billion in total sales of new products and services
64% of SBIR/STTR contracts with subsequent innovative technology sales
Other economic results, or impacts:
14,973 full-time jobs created per year with an average salary of $68,535
$44.3 billion in total economic output nationwide, in all 50 states
$22.2 billion in new wealth creation, or value added
$4.9 billion in new federal, state, and local tax revenues
$14.4 billion in labor income
97.4% of firms had fewer than 10 Phase II awards - a broadly democratic distribution
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The 6 page brochure can be downloaded below:
Required Cyber Security Certification:
What You Need To Know
On November 4, 2010, the President signed Executive Order 13556, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). This established a government-wide CUI Program to standardize the way the Government (and Government contractors) will handle unclassified information that requires protection. The guiding document for this endeavor is NIST Special Publication 800-171.
Full compliance of NIST SP 800-171 is required no later than December 31, 2017. [read more...]
NIST SP 800-171 provides the minimum required cybersecurity standards to protect the confidentiality of CUI for Federal Agencies. The document contains specific security requirements that contractors must implement at contract award. Within 30 days of contract award, the contractor must notify the DoD CIO (osd.dibcsia@mail.mil) of any of the security requirements specified by NIST SP 800-171 that are not implemented at contract award.
Contractors may use subcontractors and/or outsource information technology requirements; but, they are responsible for ensuring that these entities meet the cybersecurity standards.
For more information go to: nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-171.pdf to download your copy of the NIST SP-800-171 document and
business.defense.gov/Portals/57/Documents/Cybersecurity.pdf for a DoD presentation on Protecting DoD Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
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Navy Office of Small Business Programs
The Department of the Navy's (DON) Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) promotes acquisition opportunities where small business can best support the needs and mission of the U.S. Navy.
The OSBP strives to support our Sailors and Marines by providing them with the systems, innovation, products and tools necessary to enable them to accomplish their mission and return home safely.
The Navy OSBP web site will provide you with information and links to find opportunities for small businesses to compete for providing products and services to the Navy and Marine Corps.
The OSBP web site is located at: www.secnav.navy.mil/smallbusiness/Pages/sbir-sttr.aspx
March 2018 - SBIR Fraud Case
San Diego Communications Company Pays More Than $12 Million to Settle False Claim Act Allegations Regarding Eligibility for SBIR Contracts - Learn More:
www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/san-diego-communications-company-pays-more-12-million-settle-false-claim-act
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