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Space and Missile Systems Center

Innovation Strategies: Maximizing Payoff of

Industry Research and Development (IRAD)

Investments for National Security

SpaceRoberta Ewart, DE

SMC Chief Scientist

[email protected]

17 Sept 2015

“Innovation is what we’re all about—we always have been.” General Mark A. Welsh, Chief of Staff of the Air Force

S P A C E A N D M I S S I L E S Y S T E M S C E N T E RS P A C E A N D M I S S I L E S Y S T E M S C E N T E R

• DoD Guidance and Directives for NSS Research Objectives and Programs

• Optimizing and maximizing each IRAD program

• Optimizing the Overall Space Research Portfolio Payoff

• Efficiency in Integrating similar initiatives with NASA—Sharing Technology Needs

• Recent Results

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Overview


• 10 U.S. Code § 2372, authorizes the DoD to “encourage” contractors to engage in research and development activities that meet defense needs with the following emphasis areas:

– (1) Enabling superior performance of future United States weapon systems and components.

– (2) Reducing acquisition costs and life-cycle costs of military systems.– (3) Strengthening the defense industrial base and the technology base of the

United States.– (4) Enhancing the industrial competitiveness of the United States.– (5) Promoting the development of technologies identified as critical under section

2506 of this title.– (6) Increasing the development and promotion of efficient and effective

applications of dual-use technologies.– (7) Providing efficient and effective technologies for achieving such environmental

benefits as improved environmental data gathering, environmental cleanup and restoration, pollution reduction in manufacturing, environmental conservation, and environmentally safe management of facilities.

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IRAD Foundation


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Relationship of Government S and T and IRAD Interaction with Industry


• Better Buying Power 3.0 initiative placed a “stronger emphasis on innovation, technical excellence, and the quality of our products” under the overarching theme, Achieving Dominant Capabilities through Technical Excellence and Innovation“– Commercial variants of the military systems developed with IRAD dollars should

pay special attention to the CTI requirements.– Ensure that IRAD meets the complementary goals of providing defense

companies an opportunity to exercise independent judgement on investments in promising technologies that will provide a competitive advantage, including the creation of intellectual property, while at the same time pursuing technologies that may improve the military capability of the United States.

– Continue DoD efforts to ensure that our designs are modular and that the government is in a position to control all the relevant interfaces so that competitors with superior technology have the opportunity to win their way onto our programs.

• Such approaches should be considered for enabling competition for upgrades, facilitating reuse across the joint force, easing technology insertion, and aiding adoption of incrementally upgraded software.

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Key BBP3.0 IRAD Themes


• Revolutionize capabilities to enhance Battle Management Command, Control and Communication (BMC3) of space and cyberspace operations and integrate with other multi domain military operations. (Feeds Space Mission Force)

• Advance disruptive innovations, placing capabilities into space and cyberspace domains rapidly and at dramatically lower cost with significant performance increases.

• Develop advanced space and cyberspace technologies that provide real-time domain awareness, predictive battlespace awareness for man-made and natural phenomena, and rapid development and assessment of mitigative courses of action across all five operational domains - air, land, sea, space and cyberspace.

• Establish mutually-supportive, resilient space and cyberspace technologies that provide predictive threat analysis of the domains, quickly identify emerging threats and differentiate them from natural phenomena, and respond appropriately and effectively to allow operations through and recovery from these threats.

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Long Term Challenges


• Autonomy: to greatly reduce the manpower required to safely conduct missions

• Quantum Sciences: understanding how to use the atom for numerous tasks

• Nano engineering/nano technology

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Key S and T Research Ideas


• Modular Open System Architecture– Include networked variants

• Standard Network Adapter for Payloads as Modular Open Network Architecture

• Space Cyber– What is on the spacecraft that is not covered

by the ground system investments

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Optimization Ideas for NSS


SMC Chief Scientist Effort to Manage Multiple/Complex Technology Paths

EMDProcure /

Field /Sustain

BasicResearch

AppliedResearch

TechDemo

Programs of Record

Corporate S&T

Integrates S&T, Requirements and Acquisition

Prototyping for

Competition

Prototyping for Risk

Reduction

SystemsEngineering& Analysis

Rapid Development& Fielding

TRL Maturation, Time Progression and Acquisition Flow

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SMC Innovation—Solutions to the Needs

DARPA,NASA

Other Centers(AFRL, AEDC

SBIR/CRP Academia/MURI

IRAD

SMC INNOVATION PROCESS

Rapid Innovation

Fund(RIF)

AFSPCInnovation Working

Group (IWG)

Materiel InnovationWorking Group

(MIWG)

Objective:To Accelerate Innovation into CONOPS and expedite TRL progression

Exploit & accelerate

multiple funding

opportunitiesTargeted Evaluation and Directed Acceleration

Program A Program N STP/SERB Other Areas

10Distribution A: Approved For Public Release; Distribution Unlimited

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Recent Results w/ Small Business

• Game Changing Mission Capability‒ SBIR to RIF to fielding (SSA)

• Pervasive Material Improvements for Space and Air Applications‒ Small Business RIF to Prime

• Pervasive Improvement using a New Standard‒ SB bought by larger company (Structure integration

for secondary payloads) • Personal Computer Based Trainer

‒ SB effort with direct injection (SST)


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Parting Thought

“These people are interested in solving problems, making money for

it and applying the best possible technology…”

Mike Bruno, Aviation Week and Space Technology 3-16 August pg 60.


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