Federal Solicitations- $120M Battery & Energy Storage FOA

I want to alert everyone to a fantastic opportunity that came out a couple of weeks ago. The DOE launched a new Innovation Hub FOA earlier this February.  With total program allocations up to $120M for 5 years, companies and Universities conducting basic research in batteries and energy storage should strongly consider applying. ITECS is currently helping companies and Universities form regional teams to apply for the Hub funding. Read more

DOE SunsShot Incubator Program

This week, the DOE announced that over $12 million is being made available to help speed solar energy innovation from the lab to the marketplace. The SunShot Incubator Program, part of the larger DOE SunShot Initiative that aims to reduce the installed costs of solar energy systems, will facilitate American small business transitions from a proof of concept or business plan to domestic commercialization or deployment of solar technology. Read more

Proactive Positioning: How Access to Government Agencies Can Sharpen Your Projects, Increase Success

Access is something companies don’t think about as a benefit of working with the government. If you have a well-developed technology and are trying to secure funding, it is absolutely crucial that you meet with agency project managers. What can occur from this meeting? If the agencies see value, they can help guide you to an established or upcoming program that is in alignment with your technology.  Also, we have seen programs built around fantastic technology that do not neatly fit into existing initiatives. Read more

ITECS News – January 19, 2012

Our friends at ESTCP contacted us to make sure that everyone knew about the BAA that was released last week. The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), supports the demonstration of technologies that address priority DoD environmental requirements.  The goal of ESTCP is to promote the transfer of innovative environmental technologies through demonstrations that collect the data needed for regulatory and DoD end-user acceptance. Read more

ITECS News – January 12, 2012

Dan Coughlin, ITECS program manager, will be attending PDMA CoDev in La Jolla, CA, on February 13-15^th. We’ve attended CoDev for the last two years and recommend it to any Open Innovation practitioner. CoDev 2012’s focus is on building the capability and capacity to:

• Evolve open business models to leverage emerging opportunities more quickly Read more

ITECS News – January 5, 2012

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday and happy New Year. It was great having some time to reflect on this past year at ITECS. I also spent some time analyzing what the climate for federal R&D spending will be in 2012. While there are mixed messages, one thing that is clear is that while the R&D budget may be constrained, it will be less so than the overall Federal budget. Read more

ITECS News – December 29, 2011

I want to wish you a happy, healthy and successful New Year.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow”

-        Albert Einstein

Best,

Susan Ward

President, ITECS

ITECS News – December 15, 2011

I want to thank everyone for their input on last week’s newsletter regarding the consolation of Department of Energy Labs. As expected, we had varied responses. Some see consolidation as a way to pool resources and increase efficiency and technology alignment. Others think that centralization, although it would be more efficient, will numb creativity. In other news, this week the House of Representatives and the Senate resolved a three-year battle over the future of the Small Business Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology Transfer program. Read more

ITECS News – December 8, 2011

I came across an interesting article this week concerning the consolidation of DOE national labs. The report by the Energy Inspector General, says the DOE should consider “BRAC-style” consolidation of labs to cut administrative and logistic costs.

What do you guys think? Read more

ITECS News – December 1, 2011

The “minibus” spending bill was approved by Congress and signed by the President on November 18^th. It is the first spending bill to come out of Congress since the imposition of long-term spending caps over the summer during the debt ceiling debate. The overall discretionary spend was maintained fairly constant at last year’s levels with the $128.1B in this year’s bill compared to $128.6B last year. Some programs were cut from last year. Discretionary spending at Agriculture, for example, is trimmed by $350 million — or 2 percent — from last year, while the $17.8 billion included for NASA represents a 3.5 percent decline. Read more

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