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GLOBAL PARTNERS U.S. Army and Singaporean scientists are advancing the future of nanomaterials through an exchange program between the countries. The two-year assignment focuses on developing cutting- edge materials with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and professors in Singapore. Part of BBP 3.0 is improvement in finding technology in global markets to identify the best of the best in technology. (Photo courtesy of RDECOM)


difficult discussion we’re going to have to have as we get into our process.”


Kendall sees the emphasis on technol- ogy insertion and refresh fitting closely with the use of modular, open systems architecture; both are elements of BBP 2.0. “We have to design our acquisition plans to account for periodic technol- ogy refresh cycles on a much faster time scale,” he stated.


Enabling that means that hardware and software should be developed as modu- lar, open systems as much as possible. He conceded that it’s attractive to industry to keep systems closed, “but that doesn’t get us the competition we need here.”


Another item new to BBP 3.0 is the effort to increase the return on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program investments. Te SBIR Program has been reasonably successful in the R&D phase, Kendall said, but less so in moving SBIR- developed technologies to the point of creating actual products.


Despite the difficulties, Kendall believes it’s worthwhile to find ways to work with industry to incentivize innovation. In the 1970s, he said, “we could very eas- ily just reach out and grab smart people from industry and put them on the panel together with government people and go do a study. … Te rules today don’t permit that. But we can still find ways, within the


rules, to have a dialogue with industry.” One way, Kendall said, is to inform indus- try of requirements as soon as possible to get their feedback. “If they think our requirements are unreasonable for some reason, we need to know that. We need to understand it. If they think that they could be even more effective, [that] we could have more stringent requirements, or better performance requirements and they could support that, we need to know that, too.”


In addition, using what he called “funded concept definition,” Kendall said that DOD could essentially partner with industry in areas of risk by investing “some money … at some time early on in


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