The 2009 Missile Defense Agency Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Industry Day will be held in Long Beach, CA on August 11-12, 2009. Industry Day will focus on enhancing the SBIR and STTR process for MDA and the Small Business Community. Small Businesses will have the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one sessions with key MDA technical representatives and prime DoD contractors. This will be a great opportunity during the DoD pre-solicitation period (July 27, 2009 through August 23, 2009) to ask technical questions about specific solicitation topics. All sessions are unclassified and questions should be limited to topic requirements. Offerors may not ask for advice or guidance on solution approach, nor submit additional material to the topic author. For reasons of competitive fairness, direct communication between potential bidders and topic authors will not be allowed after August 24th - the last day of the SBIR and STTR pre-solicitation period. Research Area Leads will give briefings on the following technology areas of interest to MDA during the Phase I SBIR and STTR solicitation period: o Interceptor Technology o Manufacturing, Producibility & Field Sustainability o Radar Technology o Space Technology o Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) o Directed Energy o Modeling & Simulation o Innovative Concepts & Special Focus Projects* *SBIR only; both the SBIR and STTR solicitations cover all seven other areas. Conference Objective: By establishing this event, it is the goal for the MDA SBIR PMO to allow small businesses the opportunity to schedule one-on-one appointments with technical representatives where they can learn as much as they can about the technical aspects of the SBIR/STTR Program and the upcoming solicitations topics and research areas. A better informed small business community is more likely to submit stronger, more focused proposals and minimize duplication and mistakes - enhancing the SBIR/STTR process for MDA and the Small Business Community. Who Should Attend? o Small businesses in any industry looking to respond to MDA's SBIR or STTR solicitations and provide innovative technologies to the missile defense community; o Medium to large sized companies interested in establishing working relationships with small businesses with innovative technologies and approaches; o Government advanced technology program managers. NDIA POC—Mary Katherine Saladino,
[email protected], Phone: 703-247-2540 Registration site: www.ndia.org/meetings/9160, (Schedule of Events, Event #9160) MDA NCR POC—Hannah Choi, Program Analyst,
[email protected], Phone: 703-882-6407, Fax: 703-882-6350. http://www.mdasbir.com (Please do not contact the FedBizOps announcement uploader.)