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By APEX Process Navigation Team Technology startups are hard. The term “valley of death” has been used to describe the difficulty of attracting funding needed for you to obtain customers, attract more funding, and get to a cash-flow positive position...

The material was assigned a clearance of CLEARED on 23 Nov 2021. The United States is engaged in a strategic competition. Not since the end of the Cold War has our country been challenged politically, economically, and militarily as it is today. As a...

By APEX SBIR/STTR Process Navigation Team Over the past few years, the Department of the Air Force (DAF), which includes the U.S. Air Force and the newly created U.S. Space Force, has changed the game in its Small Business Innovation Research and...

The Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment, or APEX, is a first-of-its-kind program that aims to enhance partnerships between the Department of the Air Force, academia, and industry. The five-year, $49 million program focuses on enhancing...

Photo credit: Department of the Air Force Technology Transfer and Transition Office (T3) Partnership Intermediary Agreements, otherwise known by the acronym “PIAs”, are agreements between the government and an intermediary organization, such as state...

In April 2019, the Department of the Air Force launched its Science and Technology 2030 Strategy that lays a path forward adopting and delivering warfighting capabilities at the speed of relevance and necessity. As a result, the Department of the Air...