Executive brief 4 march 2020

2. Under a Title 15 Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA):
• SOCOM
• Inter Agency Partners
• Industry Partners/Fellows
• FFRDC’s/Labs
• Academics/Interns
• Hackers/Makers
“Big Tent” philosophy which includes:
+ =DEFENSEWERX

3. A platform designed and
operated to help solve
challenging warfighter
problems through
increased collaboration
and innovation
I. Create and maintain a platform to accelerate
delivery of innovative capabilities to USSOCOM
II. Facilitate capability refinement thru
exploration, experimentation and assessment
of promising technology
CHARTER

4. Nomination
Applied SOFWERX
Mechanism
Ecosystem
Opportunity
Ecosystem
Announcement
Submissions
Government
Downselects
Event with Govt 1 v
1
Discussions
Consignments, CRADA
OTA/MTA/FAR
SWX B2B
Agreement Prototype via
Collaborative Project
Order (CPO)
~30
Days
~30
Days~10
Days
How it WERX

5. Underway
• Project Snapshot: 34 active projects by-with-thru Industry & Academic Partners
• Event Snapshot: average 14 events per quarter
12 Problem
Statements
286
Submissions
64 Company
1v1’s/April
Collider
Event
9 Problem
Statements
191
Submissions
44 Company
1v1’s/May
CWMD
Event
3 Problem
Areas
218
Submissions
24 Company
1v1’s/SOFIC
Disrupter
Event
Only 3% from
SAM.gov
Only 5% from
SAM.gov
Only 15%
from
SAM.gov

6. How Are We Different?
• Flexible, Non-FAR Business Methodologies
• Non-Traditional Ecosystem of ~40K partners
• Neutral facilitation and Ideation
• Easy to access & reduced barriers

7. Join the Mission
• Register into the Ecosystem: www.sofwerx.org
• Participate in the events:
• Submit relevant solutions to Assessment Events (AE’s), as well as Collider
and Disrupter Events
• Participate in Collaboration Events (CE’s), as well as Prize Challenges at
www.teamwerx.org and Rapid Prototyping Events (RPE’s)
• Submit for Industry Fellow positions: www.sofwerx.org/outreach/

8. Metrics Matter
Nominations Activity Impact
36 x Collab.
Project
Orders
125 x
Projects
8 x Rapid
Prototyping
Events
55 x
Collaboration
Events
6 x
Hackathons
1 x Combat
Evaluation
(CV)
23 x
Assessment
Events
25 x Prize
Challenges
7x Tech
Expos
25 x Tech
Talks
53 x Component
31 x J-Code
190 x SOF AT&L
56 x SOFWERX
79 x Warfighter
346 x Knowledge Transfers
150 Validations
47 Consignments
18 Transitions to PoR
18 Awaiting Award