Partnerships are essential to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center because they further strengthen our ability to deliver the Army’s modernization priorities and to design the force of the future.
Technology Gateway
As the Army’s research and development center and integrator of ground vehicle technologies, U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center pulls together industry, academia, global partners, and other government laboratories and centers to deliver leading-edge vehicle technologies to the Warfighter.
We strive to provide Soldiers with the best technology possible through collaboration with U.S. Army Futures Command, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, other military branches, industry and academia. Partnerships forged have proven valuable to ensuring our continued ability to rapidly address technology generation, application, integration, transition, fielding, and sustainment requirements.
Additionally, our state-of-the-art facilities and advanced technologies provide a unique scientific ability to support the current fight while transforming the future force. Our partners from government, industry and academia are welcome to use our facilities to support the development of cutting-edge solutions for the Soldier.
GVSC maintains a robust collection of mechanisms through which industry can collaborate with the Army, including Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), Test Service Agreements (TSAs), Patent License Agreements (PLAs) and more.
CRADAs allow us to enter into agreements with a non-federal partner to conduct specified research and development-related activities that are consistent with the laboratory’s mission. It leverages both GVSC’s and the partner’s resources toward a common or mutually beneficial objective.
PLAs are a method for private entities to license GVSC-patented intellectual property. These are federally funded inventions available to industry for new product development with negotiable financial terms and rights granted to manufacture invention for company products.
TSAs are agreements through which industry can access unique government facilities, equipment, and capabilities. Through TSAs, GVSC conducts testing for industry. These agreements are charged at a rate equal to government cost, but cannot be used for facilities that may compete with those available commercially.
SBIRs, or Small Business Innovation Research programs, give small businesses an opportunity to identify, develop and demonstrate highly innovative technologies for Army Soldiers.
Academia
DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Center has academic partnerships with universities across the globe that support modernization efforts. These partnerships are critical to accomplishing our mission to lead the research, development and engineering of next-generation capabilities to make the U.S. Army more lethal than ever.
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DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center is dedicated to using science and technology to ensure America’s Warfighters are optimized, protected and lethal. We collaborate work with hundreds of nontraditional defense companies and industry to strengthen our extensive technology portfolio. Through these partnerships, we develop, integrate and deliver technology to support the Warfighter, to deliver the Army of 2030, and to design the Army of 2040.
Small Businesses
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs were established in 1982 to better equip and protect our Soldiers so they can continue to dominate the virtual and physical battlespace. These programs allow small, high-tech U.S. businesses – those with less than 500 employees – and academia to provide innovative research and development solutions in response to critical Army needs. By capturing the tremendous and agile talents of the U.S. small business community, the SBIR and STTR programs develop and demonstrate highly innovative technologies with strong commercialization potential to satisfy Department of Defense and private industry needs. General information on DoD SBIR and STTR programs can be found here, and DoD SBIR and STTR topics can be found here.
DEVCOM Global
DEVCOM is committed to ensuring the Army has access to the world’s best science and technology through strategically located international offices that develop interoperable relationships with allies and close partners, conduct extensive technology search with foreign governments, industry and academia, and provide robust science and technology support to U.S. Army Combatant Commands and U.S. Army Service Component Commands.
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