United States - The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)) EXPEDITIONARY TECHNOLOGY SEARCH (XTECHSEARCH)

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Added: May 02, 2019 2:52 pm

 

The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)) is announcing the third cohort of the Army Expeditionary Technology Search - xTechSearch - to be featured at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on 14 to 16 October 2019. xTechSearch will highlight opportunities for small businesses to collaborate with the Army to tackle the most critical Army modernization challenges.
 
The ASA(ALT) recognizes that the Army must enhance engagements with the entrepreneurial funded community, small businesses, and other non-traditional defense entities, by: (1) understanding the spectrum of technologies being developed commercially that may benefit the Army; (2) integrating the sector of non-traditional defense entities into the Army's Science and Technology (S&T) ecosystem; and (3) providing mentorship and expertise to accelerate, mature, and transition technologies of interest to the Army.
 
The xTechSearch program will provide resourcing to select small businesses to demonstrate proof of concept for their technologies pertaining to Army challenges.  The program will also integrate these small businesses into the Army's S&T ecosystem by providing research opportunities with Army labs, including access to the Army's organic intellectual and technical capital.  xTechSearch is an opportunity for businesses to pitch novel technology solutions - a new application for an existing technology or a new technology concept entirely - to the Army.  The Army will provide non-dilutive seed prizes for the small businesses to demonstrate proof of concept in an Army-relevant challenge area. 
 
The authority of this program is 15 United States Code (USC) §3719.

Opportunity closing date

12 June 2019

Value of contract

to be confirmed