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... Technology transition involves a variety of internal and external partnerships for the various stages of the process. Usually, academic, government, and industrial corporate laboratories lead the concept refinement and technology development; industry leads system development, demonstration, and production; and warfighters take the lead in deployment, operations, and support.
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... In general, an operations infrastructure must be flexible enough to meet the demands of highly collaborative, fast-paced, high-risk projects, and it must be able to accommodate change during the development process. Changing a hierarchical culture may mean decentralizing decision making, simplifying procurement and acquisition processes, reducing budget lead times, providing consistent funding through technology development and maturation, making greater use of off-the-shelf technology, and valuing innovation over short-term economic efficiency.
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... Evaluating and implementing the following actions will enable the DoD to create a culture that fosters rapid development and breaks down barriers to rapid technology transition: · Introduce flexibility that reduces budget lead times and provides consistent funding during the technology development stage through full maturity, · Make better use of commercial off-the-shelf technology, · Implement shorter and more iterative design and manufacturing processes, · Simplify procurement and acquisition processes, · Update standards and testing procedures to make it easier to introduce new materials and processes, and · Decentralize decision making throughout the process. Leveraging private equity capital and pursuing dual-use commercial development can also be effective.
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... The committee identified three corporate best practices that are effective at modifying the risk­reward balance and thereby accelerating technology development and product introduction into the commercial marketplace. Best Practice 1: Developing a Viral Process for Technology Development One of the successful best practices identified by the committee is that of developing a "viral" process for technology development .1 This process entails quick, iterative development cycles and prototyping of materials and products.
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... Having an understanding of the desired functionality, including the fabrication envelope and the use environment, would significantly accelerate finding the right material and the right technology solution, thereby accelerating technology transition. The increased reliance on functionality rather than on specifications can be implemented only by having all stakeholders involved and sharing information.
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... ENABLING TOOLS AND DATABASES The well-established success of computational engineering in various disciplines has fostered a rapid adaptation of computation-based methods to materials development in the commercial sector in recent years. Early successes in computational materials engineering provide a clear vision of a path forward to enhance capabilities across national academic, industrial, and government pursuits.3,4 The first demonstrations of computation-based methods for materials development integrated empirical materials models.
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... A dissemination initiative should provide ready access to a Web-based source of pre-competitive databases and freeware tools as well as accurate information on the range of existing, commercial software products and services. Integrated product team-based research collaborations should be deliberately structured so as to firmly establish a modern design culture in academic institutions to provide the necessary, pertinent, research and education environment.


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