Four reasons why you should use the US Air Force SBIR STTR program as a vehicle to finance your technology company/idea

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...

Posted on Dec 6, 2021

Digital Enterprise Transformation: addressing near-peer threats through innovation

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...

Posted on Dec 2, 2021

Proposers: Use these methods to overcome the top 5 challenges when applying to Department of the Air Force SBIR/STTR Open Topics

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...

Posted on Nov 3, 2021

How the Department of the Air Force APEX PIA creates effective collaborations between industry and academia for U.S. Air Force SBIR/STTR proposals

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...

Posted on Sep 23, 2021

What are Partnership Intermediaries Agreements (PIAs) and how can they help small businesses and academia innovate and commercialize technology

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...

Posted on Jul 16, 2021

How the APEX program can help academics and entrepreneurs pursue Department of the Air Force funding 

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...

Posted on Mar 4, 2021

AFOSR Webinar Recap with Timestamps: How to Engage with the Air Force Research Laboratory Research Ecosystem 

On June 19, 2020, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and its partnership intermediary the Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center (BRICC) hosted a live webinar that drew in around 1,000 registrants with over 500 of those...

Posted on Dec 8, 2020