Strategic Partnerships

INSITECH

Headquartered at the U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County, New Jersey, InSiTech? is a 501(c)(3) corporation representing the business interests of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) as its partnership intermediary.


InSiTech? simplifies technology exchange, licensing and commercialization opportunities through business combinations with government agencies, academia, and the private sector. When appropriate, InSiTech? will provide funding, assistance in strategic planning and business development, as well as access to ARDEC’s R&D resources. If required, InSiTech? is authorized to introduce the U.S. Army as a potential customer.


InSiTech? immediate focus is on:

• Technology Development – Intellectual Property Commercialization

To help commercialize federally funded technology InSiTech? will invest, and secure funds, to accelerate the development of dual-use (military/commercial) applicability.
Spin-Out?
InSiTech? is developing commercial applications for ARDEC’s military IP portfolio, and establishing the appropriate business combinations to bring these technologies to market.
Spin-In?
InSiTech? is working with the private sector to developing military applications from commercial technology; or to create a pathway to ARDEC for emerging military technology.

• Land Development – Picatinny Applied Research Campus (“PARC”) Located on 120+/- acres, with public access to highways, the PARC will be a build-to-suit campus setting that will include admin/office space, state-of-the-art R&D labs, conferencing, educational and training centers, and light assembly capabilities. As the master leaseholder, InSiTech? is working with a development and construction team to create the PARC, which will attract jobs and generate economic advantages for the region, and cost reductions for the Government.

If we examine the missions of both SOSSEC and InSiTech? we see that other than the TECHNOLOGY TRANFER (Technology Transformation) mission, each organization has missions either unique to each individual organization or complementary to both. The relationship between the SOSSEC program and InSiTech? in the technology transfer mission is also considered complementary. The SOSSEC program is and will be evaluating and applying technology from multiple sources to the Force Protection and Homeland Defense/Security arena. As these technologies mature or fulfill a prominent role in solving critical threat related HD/HS problems or nature disaster concerns, the SOSSEC program will offer these technologies to InSiTech? for either the “spin-in” to government programs or the “spin-out” to the commercial or civilian marketplace. InSiTech? will then complete the commercialization process to exploit these technologies for the benefit of ARDEC and the Army. InSiTech? also performs a vital service to the Army’s SOSSEC program, by considering high potential technologies for investment funding. The acceleration of these technologies will enable the rapid deployment of high potential technologies either into military service or for use by either local governments or the commercial sector.
The exact relationship and business model between the SOSSEC program and InSiTech? will be developed in the next several months.

FEDERAL/STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENTS/ACADEMIA/INDUSTRY

In addition to program partnerships and agreements, the SOSSEC Program has and will continue strategic relationships with local, state and federal activities in the demonstration and showcasing of new and novel technologies, tactics, techniques and procedures through the use of Layered Defense Demonstrations. Participation has exceptional during the demonstrations already executed and the SOSSEC program will continue to involve interested governmental activities to participate in future demonstrations. Academia and industry have likewise participated in these demonstrations as observers and suppliers of technology. Their future participation will also be solicited. Some examples of these demonstrations are summarized below:

• Active, Layered Defense Demonstrations

The SOSSEC program has established and demonstrated powerful concepts for system of systems level integration of capabilities in multiple regions. It has also established a highly viable model that has fostered effective partnering and attracted multiple new participants and partners within the program. To demonstrate this ability the SOSSEC program is delivering a series of Layered Defense Demonstrations.

• Layered Defense Demonstration 1

In October, 2004, the SOSSEC program successfully planned, developed and executed the first in a series of Layered Defense Demonstrations (LDD). This demonstration built upon the success of the SOSSEC Integrated Emergency Operations Center (IEOC) initiative, in which various universities, industry and government officials have agreed to closely collaborate and draw upon the unique technological and programmatic capabilities to meet critical Force Protection(FP)/Homeland Defense (HD), Homeland Security (HS) challenges. The first LDD was focused on perimeter protection of a high value infrastructure and on solutions to support the First Responder community by providing real-time information to proactively support their mission. The results of LDD-1 highlighted the SOSSEC program’s ability to quickly integrate numerous individual projects and point solutions such as sensors and emergency management systems into a cooperative, networked system of systems delivering real value to the First Responder community – leveraging the information from Federal, State and Local officials.

• Layered Defense Demonstration 2

On 12 May, 2005, the SOSSEC program delivered LDD-2. The second Layered Defense Demonstration (LDD-2) involved a multi-threat/ multi-location event and was conducted at the US Army ARDEC (Picatinny, NJ), the Integrated Emergency Operation Center (Johnstown, PA), the Pinellas County Emergency Operation Center (Clearwater, FL), and the Coast Guard Station (Philadelphia, PA). Picatinny served as both a local event and as the regional Emergency Operation Center (EOC). LDD-2 began by simulating a school takeover with hostages combined with a water contamination event in Johnstown, PA, followed by an event in the Port of Philadelphia where a sensor detected radiation on a ship entering the port, then a SARS outbreak in Pinellas County, FL, and concluded with a live explosion of a NJ Transit bus and a simultaneous simulated chemical release at Picatinny, NJ.

LDD-2 successfully achieved its objectives and goals. It demonstrated a regional capability and followed the National Incident Management System (NIMS), as directed by the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5 (HSPD-5) for development and administration of incident planning and response. More importantly, the demonstration highlighted the ability to share information at every level; vertically from the local/county/regional/federal levels and horizontally across geographically dispersed peer organizations via an Enterprise Architecture, which supports technology integration, expansion, and interoperability of disparate systems. This architecture successfully provided interoperability to monitor, integrate, and distribute multiple sensor inputs, as well as the inputs from the different command and control software systems already in place at each incident site and the regional EOC at Picatinny, NJ. Based on predefined rules, the architecture passes appropriate communications to alert the right people depending on the type and severity of each incident. In this demonstration, alerts were communicated via email and phone to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) once the architecture recognized that the events that were occurring had the potential to be a coordinated attack. Additionally, the Enterprise Architecture successfully sent the appropriate information and guidance to the first responders and incident managers at each event scene. From the “boots on the ground” (first responders) to top federal officials (DHS), this demonstrated the successful information sharing that is needed to successfully manage any single incident or coordinated attack.

• Future Layered Defense Demonstrations

LDD-3 is currently in the planning stages. This LDD will bring together the technologies from LDD-1 and LDD-2 and will be further augmented by the appropriate policies and procedures required by HLD, HLS as well as state and local government. It is designed to demonstrate a total System of Systems environment focused on people, processes and technology operating in an agile enterprise architecture framework.

As the requirements of this community continue to evolve, the SOSSEC program will bring together the strength of the participating programs and technologies to deliver solutions available today to address these needs.

• Strategic Programs

Currently the SOSSEC program has several major programs identified in key mission areas. With continued outreach, we expect to substantially grow the program.

• Strategic Opportunity Funding

The SOSSEC program is looking at a multi-faceted funding approach.




Initial program funding will come from Congressional Adds. We anticipate moving the Core Program funding to POM (PE#) program, Licensing Fees, Workshop Fees and Consulting Fees.

Customer funded (sponsored programs) will be an additional source of funding. Currently, Customer Funded Programs include:


IEOC
ICOP
Pinellas County EOC
Wyoming County, PA (pending)
Data Fusion and Analysis Center (pending)
The SOSSEC program also plans to submit proposals to generate funding from:


BAA
DARPA
DHS