{"id":33737,"date":"2022-04-07T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/07\/dod-seeks-100m-for-valley-of-death-bridge-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:44:15","slug":"dod-seeks-100m-for-valley-of-death-bridge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2022\/04\/07\/dod-seeks-100m-for-valley-of-death-bridge-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"DoD seeks $100M for \u2018valley of death\u2019 bridge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON\u2015 The Pentagon is asking Congress for another $100 million to help innovative<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/03\/07\/new-pentagon-strategy-to-bring-in-small-businesses-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\"> small businesses<\/a> get their cutting edge weapons into the hands of troops, its head of research and development said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe $100 million I am asking for is to help multiple small companies, especially if they need to finish a prototype,\u201d Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2021\/10\/12\/affordable-hypersonics-small-business-and-sustainment-lead-dod-tech-chiefs-priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Shyu<\/a> told Defense News on Wednesday. She said the request is in the fiscal 2023 budget request; the Biden administration hasn\u2019t yet released detailed budget tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For fiscal 2022, Congress included $100 million in procurement money for the \u201cMission Management Pilot Program,\u201d as part of the $1.5 trillion federal spending package signed into law last month. According to FY22 defense policy law, the fund is for technologies that apply across the armed services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shyu spearheaded this<b> <\/b>tranche of funding, which she said would continue supporting promising recipients of Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grants that are not quite ready for Phase III, which is aimed at commercialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That FY22 pilot program is in the process of launching, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe just got it,\u201d Shyu said of the funding, \u201cso we just identified a leader internally who will lead the effort. We\u2019re going to look across all the [armed] services to make sure the SBIR Phase II contractors with the most promising technology the services want [receives] this bridge funding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shyu made the remarks after a Senate subcommittee hearing where lawmakers pressed her and the heads of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2021\/09\/08\/pentagon-seeks-microbe-miners-to-cut-rare-earth-reliance-on-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">DARPA<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/battlefield-tech\/2022\/01\/26\/defense-innovation-unit-highlights-2021-technology-transition-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Innovation Unit <\/a>to explain how they would better help innovative companies cross the so-called \u201cvalley of death\u201d from inception to prototype to adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary <a 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