2016 INSA INNOVATORS’ SHOWCASE CALL FOR ABSTRACTSDUE THURSDAY, APRIL 21WHERE RESEARCH LEADS THE THIRD OFFSET PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
Is your organization developing technologies that would enhance U.S.intelligence and national security missions? Put those independent researchand development (IR&D) and other internally funded research efforts before anaudience of leading government scientists, technologists and engineers at the6th Innovators’ Showcase.
Since 2010, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) haspresented the Innovators’ Showcase in collaboration with the NationalIntelligence Science and Technology Committee of the Office of the Directorof National Intelligence (ODNI) and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Thisannual exhibition provides a unique forum for the private sector, public-privateenterprises and academia to present their innovative research projects toan ODNI-selected government audience and get feedback. The Innovators’Showcase is an excellent opportunity to showcase your organization’s IR&Dportfolio and advance submitted research projects.
The 6th Innovators’ Showcase will focus on technology development projectsthat could support the US Department of Defense Third Offset Strategy areas forthe broader Intelligence Community. We are looking for IR&D projects whichwill provide technical capability to the Intelligence Community and will offsetthe advantages of our adversaries, leading to the U.S. Third Offset Strategy.If you have an IR&D project addressing one or more topics of interest (seereverse) and haven’t already been covered in ODNI’s In-STeP Program andrelated roadmap and corporate visits, your organization is encouraged tosubmit a non-proprietary, unclassified, one-page abstract for initial reviewand evaluation by INSA’s Council on Technology and Innovation.
The Council’s recommendations will be reviewed by the ODNI, and the bestqualifiedsubmissions will be invited to present a more detailed briefing – atthe TS/SCI, unclassified and/or proprietary level, as appropriate – at theInnovators’ Showcase, scheduled for June 3, 2016 in McLean, VA. While notevery abstract submitted to INSA will be able to present at the Showcase, allabstracts will be compiled in the Showcase materials that are distributed togovernment scientists, technologists, engineers, and management teams fromODNI and other intelligence agencies.