1. Molly Donohue Magee, Executive Director June 2019
Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium
Molly Donohue Magee, Executive Director
June 2019

2. Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance
Major Initiatives: Economic Development: Support the generation of well-paying, meaningful Defense related jobs with an emphasis on innovation in order to Sustain and Grow our Defense Industry Base. Workforce Development: Building the Pipeline of Future National Security Workers and provide required training to incumbent workers. Catalyst for Thought Leadership and Technical Innovation for Undersea Technology and Cybersecurity
Defense Innovation Days

3. Maritime Cybersecurity Center
Cybersecurity Awareness For businesses and potential future workforce. Cybersecurity Information Sharing Collaboration and information Sharing among companies. Cybersecurity Internship Program Experiential learning opportunity for college and non-traditional students.
Awareness, Training and Communities of Practices

4. Major Annual Event: Defense Innovation Days
Defense Innovation Days 2019 –
26-28 August 2019 – Newport Marriott Hotel - Newport, RI
Annual forum for DoD policymakers, Congressional stakeholders, and industry leaders to discuss future challenges, needs and opportunities
Collaborate with Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTC) – held same week.

5. Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium (UTIC)
On 4 June 2018, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) awarded UTIC a 3-year Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement for Undersea and Maritime Prototyping Solutions with options up to 10 years.
OTAs are an agile contracting mechanism, and as such are not covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
An “enterprise partnership” between the Government and a consortium of technology developers/providers with ability to negotiate IP rights.
~250 member organizations, including industry (small/large companies), academic institutions, and non-profits.
The Navy has identified over 50 prototype projects to date. The go- forward plan is for biannual release of topics in October and April. Ad-hoc awards will be made if necessary.
73% nontraditional
69% small business
26% large business
5% academia/nonprofit
35 States

6. Rationale for Using an OTA
The Department of Defense uses OTAs to get needed innovative technology fielded as quickly as possible.
This OTA is for technology development and prototyping of undersea technology and innovative maritime systems.
OTAs are an agile contracting mechanism, and as such are not covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
OTAs require substantial participation from non-traditional firms (typically, all small businesses qualify as a non-traditional).
OTAs support open communication and collaboration.
This award has established UTIC as the DoD focal point for undersea and maritime technology innovation.

7. UTIC Other Transaction Agreement Technical Focus Areas
Autonomy
Bio-inspired Sensors
Communications
Cooperative Force Torpedo Defense
Distributed and Autonomous Sensors
Electronic Warfare
Electronics/Optics/Materials
Energy Storage and Release
Environmental Sensing, Monitoring & Prediction
In-Situ Energy Sources
Machine Learning
Multi-Dimensional Display
Multi-Domain Fusion
Passive Sensing
Platform & Payload Integration
Quantum Computing
Sensors and Sonar
Threat Monitoring and Prediction
Undersea Distributed Networked Systems
Undersea Satellites
Undersea Warfare Analysis
Undersea Warfare Combat Systems
Undersea Warfare Imaging
Undersea Warfare Weapons and Autonomous Vehicles
Virtualization
Strong Breadth and Depth of Innovative Undersea and Maritime Technology

8. A Pipeline of Emerging Technology
Technology Prototypes from UTIC OTA Demonstrated at Advanced Naval Technology Exercises (ANTX))
NUWC Division Newport
ANTX
Collaboration
Insight on Emerging Technologies
Technology Delivered
to the Fleet
Warfare Centers
Innovations
Fleet Demonstration Opportunities
Industry
Academia
Fleet
A Pipeline of Emerging Technology

9. Innovation Through Partnership / Collaboration
Communicate
Demonstrate
INNOVATIVE
TECHNOLOGY
SUPPORTING
DOD NEEDS
The second wave of this perfect storm is partnering and collaboration.
The challenge is too great -No single institution, government, industry or academia can do this alone. Partnerships are more important than ever. We need to get more seamless.
Collaboration for industry and government has not always been easy.
If we are going to truly innovate we all need to be more transparent, communicate openly and freely where it makes sense and create a persistent and enduring awareness of Navy needs, the state of the art, and our individual knowledge bases throughout our enterprise
Groups like Senedia and NDIA are helping with this.
There are a few things that we are working on to push our collaboration and access, especially for those smaller, non-traditional companies.
Collaborate
Innovate

10. Contact Information
Molly Donohue Magee