Nick Fuhrman

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Technology InsertionInnovationWorkforce
DevelopmentEducationBusiness AssistanceExpansio
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• Status ReportMay 3 2007

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Our Mission

• Founded in 2003 to support the Commission for a
  New Georgias Strategic Industries Initiative
• Focused on the key imperatives for growth in
  aerospace
• Technology
• Innovation Applied RD
• Organic
• Companies
• Industry promotion and capital expansion
• Traditional
• People
• Workforce Skills Development and Education
• Required
• Gubernatorial Partnership Aligned to Support
  Warner Robins Air Logistics Center
• Working on all imperatives

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Our Programs
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Workforce development and education
Building across generations to inspire, develop,
and train the workforce and aerospace pioneers of
the future
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Workforce development

• Middle Georgia Work-Ready Aerospace Partnership
  (mgWRAP)
• Regional Focus
• Partnership with Robins AFB Workforce 21
• Partnership with National Aerospace Development
  Center
• US Department of Labor
• Creates a single industry focus forum for
  matching workforce development needs to workforce
  development projects and programs
• Creates a vehicle for future federal funding

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Education

• Transportation Education Foundation of Georgia
  (TEFGA)
• Statewide Focus
• Partnership with Automotive and Logistics
  Industries
• Partnership with Georgia Department of Education
• Supports an industry-oriented aerospace and
  aviation curriculum for High Schools
• Engages Middle School and High School students
  through career awareness programs
• Works with teachers, guidance counselors and
  graduation coaches

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Business growth and expansion
Making opportunity happen by connecting aerospace
businesses with Georgias resources for expansion
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Business expansion

• Achievements
• Virtual Resource Team
• SBIR
• Procurement Assistance
• Entrepreneur Outreach Specialists
• Angel Investors Network
• Consulting and assisting numerous companies,
  large and small
• Assisting GDEcD and Chambers of Commerce with
  prospects and proposals
• Centennial of Flight Year
• Increased presence at national trade shows
• Providing leadership for facilities expansion
  partnership between Georgia and the USAF

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G-Ramp Partnership

• Innovative Public (US-State-Local) Private
  Partnership
• State and local government facilitates private
  investment in additional MRO hangar facilities on
  and around WRALC
• WRALC populates new facilities with MRO work
  under contracts that it makes
• Improves 50-50 and Core utilization
• Increases Georgia direct employment under WRALC
  contracts
• Requires sustainable workforce investment
  partnerships between Georgia and WRALC

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2007 Georgias Centennial of Flight

• National Trade Events
• NBAA
• AAAA
• MRO 2007
• Air Shows, Educational
• Programs, Ceremonies
• Centennial of Flight Web Site
• http//aerospace.georgiainnovation.org/100years
• Centennial of Flight Gazette

Ben T. Epps Aerospace Innovation Achievement
Awards
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Innovation
Aiming higher through innovation, we leverage
Georgias world-leading research assets to
develop break-through solutions and bold new
markets for our clients
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Innovation

• Achievements
• UNTIL Unified New Technology Insertion Lab
• Current Projects
• Conformal antennas
• Nano-coding
• Fuel desulphurization
• Predictive maintenance
• Logistics support
• Established CRADA (Cooperative Research and
  Development Agreement) between USAF and Georgia
• Next Steps
• Establish transaction models for industry working
  under our CRADA initiative

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UNTILbecause the warfighter cant wait
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UNTIL

• Unified
• WRALC in a federal-state partnership (CRADA) with
  the Georgia Aerospace Innovation Center
• New
• Proactive, Innovative, solutions-oriented,
  requirements-focused
• Technology
• That improves mission performance and
  sustainability across WRALC missions
• Insertion
• Rapidly conduct proof of concept, demonstration
  and test programs on a quick-turn,
  customer-defined basis
• Lab
• We provide industry, academia, and WRALC a safe
  zone for collaboration and experimentation on
  multiple projects in various technology themed
  areas that need attention fast

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UNTILUnified New Technology Insertion Lab
State-SponsoredCRADA-EnabledCONSORTIUM
CUSTOMER PULL UNTIL gathers firms and academic
resources to solve USAF sustainment challenges to
meet a specific mission need or new
requirement TECHNOLOGY PUSH UNTIL consortia
expose customers in USG agencies to new
capabilities and emerging technical solutions
that improve mission performance and/or
sustainability
UNTIL Consortium ProposesSolutions to STP/RFI/RFP
Contract AwardProduction
ConceptDemonstrationTest Program
Technology Insertion
UNTIL ConsortiumSubmit White PapersConduct
Customer Briefings
Contract AwardRDTE
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UNTILCRADA Consortium Formation
Perhaps a category of issues
Not a written requirement
WRALC Problem Opportunity
Focus on End-Item Solutions with Contracting
Potential
Risk InvestmentAhead of requirements
Consortium-Developed Solutions
Open Flow of Information and Technology Transfer
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Engineering Directorate
Consortium-Developed Solutions
WRALC Problem Opportunity
Technology Readiness Level
Consortium AwardProduction
Consortium AwardFirst Article Test
Consortium AwardRDTE
Risk InvestmentAhead of requirements
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CRADAFrequently Asked Questions

• Who can participate in the CRADA?
• The Georgia Aerospace Innovation Center
  represents Georgia under the CRADA. Georgia
  companies are welcome to propose technology
  project consortia to meet the needs of the USAF,
  just as USAF program managers and engineers may
  ask the Innovation Center to form a consortium
  around a USAF technology need.
• What technologies are being transferred?
• The CRADA was written to encompass virtually any
  technology needs of the Wings and Tenant
  Combatant Commands resident at Warner Robins AFB,
  meaning everything from process innovation and
  work-flow improvement technologies to the most
  sophisticated radar, avionics and electronic
  warfare technologies. In a consortium formed by
  the Innovation Center under the CRADA, companies
  and researchers will have access to information
  regarding the technological challenge and the
  urgency of the need to support the warfighter.
  It will be up to the consortium to develop a
  solution working with the relevant USAF personnel.

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CRADAFrequently Asked Questions (continued)

• Will working under the CRADA mean a contract with
  the USAF?
• Consortia that succeed in developing a needed
  technology at a reasonable price have a
  much-improved chance of winning a USAF contract,
  but there are no guarantees. The Aerospace
  Innovation Center will work in consultation with
  the USAF procurement office and the technical
  sponsor on a procurement strategy that is
  advantageous to the public-private partnership
  nature of the consortia.
• Is the CRADA funded by the USAF?
• No. The CRADA is an agreement to exchange
  technology and information. It is not a small
  business set-aside. Participants in
  CRADA-enabled consortia bring their own money and
  abilities to explore solutions in a formal
  collaboration that may lead to contracting
  opportunities between the consortia and the USAF.
• I have an idea for something the USAF might
  need.How do I propose my idea under the CRADA?
• The Georgia Aerospace Innovation Center is your
  first point of contact. http//aerospace.georgiai
  nnovation.org Telephone [phone]

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Infrequently Asked Questions
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