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Description
The future Army must be capable of conducting Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) as part of an integrated Joint Force across an array of scenarios in multiple theaters by 2035. The MDO concept describes how the Army will support the Joint Force in the rapid and continuous integration of all domains of warfare – land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace – to deter and prevail as we compete short of conflict, and fight and win if deterrence fail. The Army must provide game-changing capabilities to our Soldiers, leveraging the tools to operate at the pace of innovation. In order to capitalize on small business innovation, the Army has implemented a new approach to advertise SBIR funding opportunities on an ad hoc basis, outside of the three pre-determined announcements issued at the DoD level. SBIR Opportunities will be announced under this BAA. Only proposals submitted in response to an active corresponding Opportunity will be evaluated for funding.
The objectives of the DoD SBIR/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program
include stimulating technological innovation, strengthening the role of small business in
meeting DoD research and development needs, fostering and encouraging participation by
minority and disadvantaged persons in technological innovation, and increasing the
commercial application of DoD-supported research or research and development results.
Technology focus areas include DoD’s Key Science and Technology Areas
(https://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/docs/techareas.pdf), USD(R&E)’s Technology
Modernization Priorities (https://www.cto.mil/modernization-priorities), and the Army’s
Modernization Priorities (2019 Army Modernization Strategy: Investing in the Future.
https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/2019_army_modernization_strategy_final.pdf).
The guidelines presented in this BAA incorporate and make use of the flexibility of the SBA
SBIR/STTR Policy Directive to encourage proposals based on scientific and technical
approaches most likely to yield results important to the DoD and the private sector.
The SBIR/STTR Policy Directive is available at:
https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/SBIR-STTR_Policy_Directive_2019.pdf.
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