08:30   Welcome and Event Charge: SBIR Reauthorization

                        Jere Glover, Esq. 

                        Executive Director, SBTC

 

09:00   Morning Keynote: “Acquisition Volatility”

                        Hon. James I. Finley    confirmed

                        Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology) 

Mr. Finley is the highest-ranking federal defense official to have addressed a small/large business audience focused on technology transition in the defense industry.

 

09:45   Issue #1: DoD SBIR Commercialization Pilot Program

Michael Caccuitto                               Carol VanWyk

DoD SBIR Program Manager             Manager, OSD Commercialization Pilot Program

This two-part session will focus on CPP’s DoD-level mission and agency-level activities, and large and small firm response to CPP opportunity.  

 

10:00   Issue #1 con’t: CPP Procurement Opportunity

           Co-Moderator: Michael Caccuitto                     DoD SBIR Program Manager                      

           Co-Moderator: Carol VanWyk                           OSD Small Business Programs Office

                        - Lani Loell                   Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

                        - Mario Ramirez          Lockheed Martin Corporation

                        - David Powell             Triton Systems PMC

                        - Will Saunders           Adaptive Technologies Inc.

 

10:45   Issue #2: SBTC’s Defense Technology Small Business Advisors                                 

                             How Can Small and Large Firms Collaborate On Transition Obstacles?      

           Moderator: Jeff Bond              Association for Manufacturing Technology

 - Mark Bakotic            Northrop Grumman Ship Systems

 - Bill Nickerson          RLW Inc.

 - Dr. Kent Murphy      Luna Innovations

            Comment: John Williams       Navy SBIR Director

This session debuts an initiative led by small business advisors to find common ground with large defense contractors to identify and recommend solutions to present technology transition obstacles. It will focus on best practices in integrating the Mentor Protégé, ManTech and SBIR programs, in response to recent Congressional actions, and assessing new opportunities for small firms latent in such integration.

 

11:30   Issue #3: Fiscal Resources to Support and Accelerate Transition of SBIR Projects             

            Moderator: Dr. Michael McGrath DASN Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

- Deborah Santy          Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies

- Brian DiAntonio         Rapid Technology Transfer Program

- Robert Weiss           Physical Sciences Inc.

            Comment: Cynthia Gonsalves           Director of Technology Transfer – OSD

This session will focus on the types of funds available to extend SBIR projects in varied federal agencies, and access strategies.

 

12:30   Luncheon Keynote: “How Can SBIR Meet Our Highest Priority Warfighter Needs?”

                        Richard McNamara

                        Director, Naval SeaSystems – Submarine Program Executive Office

Mr. McNamara is “the billion-dollar man” – the first federal program official to successfully invest $1B in transitioning SBIR technologies into Major Defense Acquisition Programs.

                         

 

1:45     Issue #4: Strength in Numbers – Small Business Collaboration to Win DoD Contracts

            Moderator: Terry Bibbens      Homeland Venture Partnership

                        - Nick Karangelen       ACCES non-profit collaboration

                        - Linda Whittington      SPAWAR SBIR Program Manager

                        - Wayne Jakubowski   ASSETT, Inc.

                        - Italo Travez              Prototype Productions Inc.

            Comment: Carl Fisher           General Atomics

This session will focus on “bundling” of SBIR topics to aggregate SBIR awards so that linked small firms can address larger defense program opportunities, and on collaboration strategies that enable linked small firms to compete for niche program opportunities and more effectively partner with large Prime contractors.        

 

2:30     Issue #6:   Procurement Q&A: Federal Procurement—Model Agreements—Small Business Data Rights                                                                           

              Moderator: Max Kidalov        Senate Small Business Committee

                        - David Metzger           Holland & Knight, LLC                                    

- Paul Seidman           Seidman & Associates, P.C.

- Mike Mutek                Raytheon, Intelligence and Information Systems

                        - Representative         Boeing Company, Office of the General Counsel

This presentation, accompanied by a generous Q&A session, will focus on data rights and related small business prerogatives in the federal procurement arena. It includes a discussion of DFARS clauses 7013 and 7018, and other specifics. This section looks at the negotiation process under CPP

 

3:15     Issue #7: Strengthening Small Business Infrastructure for Rapid Growth

            Moderator:  Kenneth Bricker  Goodman & Co.

- John Schickling         KaZak, Inc.

- Steve Cobb               SatCon, Inc.

- Tony Mulligan           Advanced Ceramics Research

- Julia Spicer               Mid-Atlantic Venture Assn.

            Comment: Vincent Schaper   SMI, Inc.

This session will focus on the breadth and depth of financial planning that small firms must do to anticipate manufacturing and workforce scale-up of their firms to take advantage of DoD acquisition opportunities for volume technology purchases. 

 

4:00     Special Feature: “How Defense Primes Think” -- Understanding Corporate Cultures

            Moderator: Allen Baker           Vital Strategies           

-     Richard Hendel     The Boeing Company

-          John Cottrell          L-3 Communications Inc.

-          Dennis Crosby      Northrop Grumman Corporation

 

This presentation will focus on delivering a “layman’s language” understanding of business models among large corporations in the defense industry, and how this impacts their behavior with small firms when working in the technology transition trade space.