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Navy CTO: SBIR Defense Grants Are Just a Door Prize
“We have Small Business Innovative Research, but that's more of a door prize. You need to get to that operations and maintenance long tail funding.”
Fanelli: Slow DoD onboarding turns away breakthrough commercial innovators
“That translation piece has been very expensive, And so product market fit is slow, and at times we turn away people who or companies that would have brought in breakthroughs”
Navy CTO: Navy Compressed 18-Month Acquisition Process Into Three Months
“We fast tracked an 18 month process in three months with a couple pages between C and S's capability needs statements and top level requirements.”
Navy CTO: Navy Adapted Electronic Warfare Gear for Army in Three Months
“We had an electronic warfare solution, and we heard that the army was going to go out and do a request for proposal on something that was really similar The same long requirements document that we had. We said can you just paint this brown and throw it on a Hu…”
Fanelli: Navy is consolidating 1,000 identity solutions into Naval Identity Service
“And so we have a thousand different identity management solutions. So we've said Naval Identity Service is the enterprise System. That service is what's moving forward.”
Navy CTO: Defense Startup CEOs Must Embed With Users Before Hiring Sales
“If you are a startup CEO, don't hire salespeople before you understand the ecosystem. Move to San Diego or get close, like, spend nine months near The group that you are trying to positively enable and empower to do their job 10 or a hundred times better than …”
Fanelli: DoD Will Move Non-Traditional Tech to Production Within 12 Months
“So I'm excited about the best chance I've ever seen in the next six to 12 months to get capability that wasn't under government contract into full scale production.”
Fanelli: Department of Navy obtained 12 policy exceptions via data
“We've gotten 12 exceptions to policy because we brought data and said this is hurting us, and so these sub-optimizations that we've always had we can do better than that, and we will.”
Fanelli: Record Number of Companies Seeking National Security Contracts
“We have more companies than we've ever seen before who want to work on national security.”
Navy CTO: DoD will shift more PEOs to portfolio models
“And so we've shifted PEO digital, and I believe that we'll shift even more of those program executive offices across DoD to that.”
Fanelli: Military advantage comes from rapid adaptation, not just tech quality
“It's not about who necessarily just has the best tech, it's how they're adapting. To that tech and using that as advantage.”
Fanelli: Hedging against all risk fights inflation, not disruptive tech
“If your goal is to hedge against anything happening, then you're fighting against inflation as opposed to against disruptive technology.”
Fanelli: Navy deployed mobile network startup CAPE in Guam pilot
“We put CAPE, our mobile virtual network operator company startup in Guam, and then we needed them. So like, hey, the pilot was ready for actual use.”
Fanelli: Defense Innovation Unit Accounts for Under 1% of Defense Budget
“When we still talk about DIU is, like, less than one percent of the budget.”