Ms. Lisa Sanders Director

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1 UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND Ms. Lisa Sanders Director SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2 S&T Vision Discover, Enable, and Transition technologies to provide an asymmetric advantage for Special Operations Forces 2

3 S&T Strategy Overview Understand Gaps Understand Technology Develop Solutions Technology Gaps Component & TSOC Gaps PEO Gaps Threat-Related Gaps Discover Enable Transition Scouting Roadmaps Red Team Internal Projects External Projects Studies PEOs Military Services Enablers, COI, OGA, DoD V I S I O N Deliver Game Changing Technology Maximize Leverage (DoD, Industry, Academia, Partner Nations) Execute Planned Transitions Involve Warfighters Increase Speed Manage Risk 3

4 SOF S&T Needs Comprehensive Signature Management for personnel & platforms* Unmatched ballistic protection through advanced armor/novel materials Capabilities to sufficiently execute Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Enhanced human performance* Far-Forward Combat Casualty Care (CCC) First pass accuracy and lethality SOF Small Unit Dominance (SOFSUD)* Precision Guided Munitions (PGM)/Scalable Effects Weapons (SEW) Counter-Terrorism (CT)/Tagging, Tracking, & Locating (TTL) technologies C4 revolutionary capabilities Optical electronics, Infrared (IR), & Lasers Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD)* Battlespace awareness* Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR) Cyber/Social media analysis tools Leap ahead Power & Energy (P&E) systems Biometrics/Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) Military Information Support Operations (MISO) * FY15-19 Science & Technology Integrated Priority List (STIPL) 6

5 Technology Development Working Groups (TDWGs) S&T GAPS: Biomedical Optical Electronics C4 Human Performance Protection TDWGs Fires TDWG Deliverables Focus Areas of Interest Potential Tech Approaches Potential Partners Acquisition/Resourcing Strategies Transition Strategies/Paths Rank S&T Gaps/Problem Sets Continual Evaluation of Priorities Status Monitoring 7

6 Science and Technology Directorate BIOMEDICAL / HUMAN PERFORMANCE FIRES C4 MOBILITY JOINT ACQUISITION TASK FORCE (JATF) Freeze Dried Plasma AC-130J High Energy Laser (HEL) VHF/UHF Magnetically Coupled Antennas Transferrable Armor TALOS (Various) OPTICAL ELECTRONICS PROTECTION TECHNICAL EXPERIMENTATION EMERGING CAPABILITIES & PROTOTYPING POWER & ENERGY MAVERIC Kevlar Nanofibers Technical Experimentation Semi-Automated Counter-Propaganda Platform (SCP) JCTD Hybrid Electric Power Unit 8

7 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) & Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) S&T manages USSOCOM s SBIR/STTR Programs Stimulate technological innovation Increase private sector commercialization of federal research and development Increase small business participation in federally funded research and development Foster participation by minority/disadvantaged firms in technological innovation USSOCOM SBIR Program: 9

8 Innovation Ecosystem Supporting Innovation 1. Build the Network 2. Provide the Venues 3. Develop the Tools and Processes SOF CAPABILITY NEEDS Local Community Thunderdome Hackathons STEM events. Volunteers. Technology Domain Awareness Vulcan DIUx H4D. Advanced Manufacturing & Rapid Prototyping Innovation Customers and Culture POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS Leverage Network: Services & IC Government Labs Industry Academia Non-profits Ideation & Iteration Venues SOFWERX.. DirtyWERX. User Test Bed 12

9 Agility Thrives in a Marketplace CO-INVENTION THUNDERDOME EVENTS Rapid Prototyping Vulcan EDUCATION WITH AT&L TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS Fellowship/Interns WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Industry Engagement 13

10 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) A CRADA is: A legal agreement for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) A collaborative effort with non-federal party (parties) Parties may provide and share personnel, services, facilities, equipment, or other resources in conducting the RDT&E Non-federal party may also provide funds; statute prohibits government from providing funds to non-federal party Since collaborating party does not receive federal funds, normal government procurement requirements do not apply End objective advance S&T that meets USSOCOM mission requirements but also has viability in other potential commercial applications 15

11 Vulcan Technology Scouting Application //FOUO Web-based platform that enables anyone to quickly describe technology and upload supporting documentation to a secure, shared, searchable, central database Information is entered into a Scout Card Scout Cards can be easily disseminated across the SOF enterprise to individuals or teams Enables everyone in SOF to be a Tech Scout Government users can remotely poke the organization or individual who originally entered the data to provide updates/respond to comments Vulcan supports evaluation/assessment/scoring of submitted technologies, and sharing of results Each time a Scout Card is interacted with it has an associated timeline showing technology maturation across events Go to register Vulcan provides an exponential increase in efficiency and effectiveness over existing business processes for gathering, disseminating, searching, assessing and acting on technology related information. //FOUO 17

12 Technical Experimentation (TE) TE 17-2, March 2017, Camp Atterbury- Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations, IN Experimentation Focus: Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE), Military Information Support Operations (MISO), and Human Performance TE 17-3, July 2017, Patuxent River, MD Experimentation Focus: C4/Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) TE 18-1, November 2017, Key West, FL Experimentation Focus: Combat Diving Public Link: LinkedIn Group: SOCOM Technical Experimentation 18

13 USSOCOM S&T Strategic Plan In Development Objectives Provide a unifying reference for long-term S&T planning Inform employees and stakeholders of the priorities for the S&T Directorate and Command Support USSOCOM POM planning, portfolio defense, and resourcing Ensure alignment between S&T s priorities and behaviors and the larger SOF Enterprise 19

14 Our Blueprint Set unreasonable expectations Execute an elastic business definition A cause, not a business Embrace and listen to new voices Enable a market for innovation Exploit low-risk experimentation Create and exercise the network USSOCOM acquisition... light, agile, lethal: a pathfinder for DoD acquisition reform: USSOCOM leads the way by focusing on modifying organization culture rather than processes. GLENDA H. SCHEINER LEADING THE REVOLUTION - GARY HAMEL 20

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