Government/Industry/Academic Relationships for Technology Development A Workshop Report (2005) / Chapter Skim
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and principal investigator of the DOD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research initiative (MURI) Cooperative Control of Distributed Autonomous Vehicles m Adversarial Environments; John Roth, president and chief operations officer at MicroSat Systems, inc.; and James Ryder, director of technology development, Lockheed Martin.
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The DOD Mentor-Protege program, enacted m 1990 with support from Senator Sam Nunn and Secretary of Defense William Perry, provides incentives for major DOD prime contractors (the "mentors") to help SDBs organizations that qualify by virtue of being owned by socially or economically disadvantaged individuals (the "proteges")
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Benefits also include relationships developed between the university and its partners that could lead to future work, not necessarily under the DOD's Mentor-Protege program Likewise, the partners received benefits from the academic research group, which identified and recommended materials to minimize stresses on the components used during assembly and determmed that the current organic materials would be incompatible with ceramic substrates. Peninger said that FIU had played a very important role in the collaboration by proposing solutions to material compatibility issues predicted through its modeling efforts.
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In the Coast/ACM case, however, the protege was teaching the mentor key elements behind the wizardry of the magnetic component application on the ball grid array. Trimble characterized this as an example of removing stovepipes and working across disciplinary boundaries.
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DOD MURI PROGRAM (UNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVE, UCLA) The next panelist, Jeff Shamma from UCLA, began his presentation by providing an overview of the DOD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURK program and UCLA's role m the Cooperative Control of Distributed Autonomous Vehicles in Adversarial Environments MURI.
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Students m the program participated m intercarnpus student visits, spending anywhere from a week to an entire school quarter at other institutions working with team members. The team performed unified test bed studies to describe results using a unified hardware platform and prototype.
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This is one way to try to align group incentives with individual incentives. Cornell had an incentive of its own for developing the software test bed so that the MURI team and others could use it to motivate and demonstrate research An attendee asked Shamma if the team felt it had come with up something innovative or if a breakthrough had resulted from the work and if, historically, the MURI program had achieved innovations and breakthroughs.
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It depends on the individuals involved and the degree to which the DOD program manager needs that to happen. Another attendee asked Shamma his view on nonproductive team members.
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at Kirtland Air Force Base. Roth recalled the earlier discussion of the OTA contracting mechanism, first used by DARPA and then embraced by other organizations.
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The Air Force used an OTA contract since one of TechSat-21's requirements was a cost-share commitment. In addition, the Air Force was convinced, Roth said, that the concept of small, low-cost satellites was going to be disruptive to the large satellite business and would have huge commercial potential.
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While such an arrangement might seem to be acceptable, the investment capital for such an effort is raised by the company all at once, not monthly Another attendee asked Roth if he thought the investment community would be willing to underwrite the pursuit by small companies, large companies, and universities of prizes such as the Ansari X prize, knowing that no up-front funding was available for technology development. Are there investors willing to pursue technologies with such 44
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His remarks were based on discussions with several staff members at Lockheed Martin. The first question asked of large businesses concerned the appropriate use of competitive and noncompetitive awards.
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Lockheed Martin works with a number of companies in England and some m France. Ryder believed that it was easier to work with global companies now than it had been 3 or 4 years ago, but a lot harder than 10 to 15 years ago.
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One attendee asked if there was anything to learn by looking at how the Europeans and Japanese handled global issues. Are they more open or less protective of their work?
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While there are still pay raises and bonuses to reward individual work, the team approach could work if the team is rewarded as a group. Ryder did not know whether the prize mechanism discussed earlier would have the same motivating effect as pay raises and bonuses, but he did know that government needed to find incentives.
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