"The SOFWERX CWMD CCE conference provided a collaborative environment that encourages communications with Government and Industry. The event was fantastic and well run."

"SOFWERX should be commended on their creative engagements with industry to accelerate innovative solutions to our warfighters. Well done!"

"SOFWERX is an indispensable organization...it’s platform for putting industry and government users together in a well-managed fashion helped our company validate and hone our value proposition. The high-caliber event drew like-minded and complimentary solutions which made identifying suitable partners extremely effective. We would have spent months, if not years, to get the results this event brought in two days. And to top it off, the entire staff were friendly, knowledgeable and went way beyond to ensure our success. Well done!"

"The SOFWERX collaboration events are an excellent way to bring diverse groups together to spur innovation. Although they have not immediately led to additional business, we look forward to participating in future events to continue assisting the SOF community and developing new technologies and applications."

"SOFWERX has done a superb job of bridging the tech capabilites gap between the developer and the end-user, specifically the SOF Operator. This effort has been sorely needed and SOFWERX has met this requirement and serves as an example of ‘right’ looks like."

"Working with SOFWERX was an amazing experience for our entire team!"

"Through collaboration at SOFWERX, I was able to meet people from government research labs and industry vendors with great technologies that we didn't have to develop. Those relationships are turning into teams and proposals."

"Great venue, and great support from the SOFWERX staff; there were plenty of folks involved or readily available to handle any situation, and that was just within our group. Not knowing how many other groups were present at this location, we really had the support we needed to pull off an excellent event."

"The SOFWERX event provided a great venue for the government and industry teams to share ideas."

"The openness of the SOFWERX platform produces an ecosystem, in which it is easy to create new connections and new ideas. My brain is humming from the ideas generated at SOFWERX. There’s no doubt that the multi-directional interactions of the Capability Collaboration Event (Gov to industry, industry to industry, and Gov to Gov) will improve the variety and quality of submissions to the RFI. This is not your father’s industry day!"

"From facilities to staff to the final agenda, SOFWERX provided a modern, professional environment for collaboration between Operators, Industry, Academia, and Government at the NGIA Industry Days event. Besides being an excellent networking opportunity, the NGIA initiative should prove to be a successful conduit for rapid solutions from industry to operators on the edge."

"The ability to support veterans in the community is easily approachable by small organizations, but the ability to support the warfighter is difficult. SOFWERX opens up this opportunity to small innovators and academics by providing events - like the Unity Developer Forum and Virtual Worlds - in the Tampa Bay region and without cost. This unique voice of innovation is lost in larger events having substantial cost to attend. Thank you for providing an opportunity to serve the warfighter community."

"Dynamic speaker who presented a real-world case to emphasis his trade-craft ... excellent event."

“One of the best run conferences ever attended- on time, on topic, a true meeting of minds with abundant SMEs.”

"SOFWERX has given us as a small entity, a platform where our solutions to corrosive atmospheres can be demonstrated on a wider scale. Thanks to the foresight in creating SOFWERX, I believe the exposure and fast-track structure of this program will open many enlightening and innovative products and solutions. Implementation of these creative solutions will save lives and money in our military’s future."

“The leadership team at SOFWERX have developed an important capability of innovation that is second to none. The OTA process was developed by the Kennedy Administration to help NASA innovate quickly to win the race to the moon. SOCOM and DOD needs the same type innovation... I am personally excited to collaborate with the leadership of SOCOM and SOFWERX. It is very clear that this process will produce better decision-making and collaboration to the Warfighter.”

“SOFWERX provides a collaborative environment that accelerates teaming opportunities while providing a higher level of understanding of End User requirements. This approach is quite effective as it enables our company to rapidly identify vendor support and to recognize alternations in our designs to better meet CONOPS.”

"Just landed back in DFW after attending the SOFWERX Long Wave Infrared rapid prototyping event.

What a great experience to meet with some highly intelligible folks from inside and outside of the defense industry to crowd source solutions for the Warfighter. Diversity in thought and perspective truly drives innovation!

It’s not everyday (at least in my office) where you get to have engineers, subject matter experts, end users and customers all in the same room interacting with one another to solve a highly complex problem – at SOFWERX this is made possible daily.

Nothing that gets me pumped up like supporting the Warfighter!"

"I found the organization of the event very creative. I particularly enjoyed the inclusion of an illustrator embedded in each team who worked to create a real-time illustration of the ideas generated. I want one with me at all times."

"I am founder and CEO of a technology company, Robodub which has built Morphing drone technology. SOFWERX has totally changed the fortune of our destiny.

I have to credit JJ for convincing me at her presentation in Seattle to submit White paper on our tech. SOFWERX encouraged our tech and gave us visibility to government agencies at a live demo in Florida. Several agencies are actively considering our drone platform for many applications. That is a huge win for a small company like us! SOFWERX is a great platform where tech companies now know the needs of SOF community and they can adapt their tech to give SOF guys an asymmetric edge. I would send further company updates as our contracts are signed."

"The SOFWERX RPE provided the perfect opportunity to meet with experts in the field and high level SOCOM customers and partners. The small number of attendees in a week-long format provided an incredible amount of access. I expect that some of these relationships will turn into joint projects and collaborations."

"The Collider event proved to be an extremely efficient and beneficial process to enable government to review industry submissions for our technology focus area. The event and coordination provided by the SOFWERX team fostered effective communication between government and industry to allow us to quickly see viable solutions to our technology challenge."

"As a commercial start up company it is not always easy to connect with the U.S. Government to get an assessment of dual use, commercial and military, capabilities. SOFWERX does a marvelous job of creating a clear, simple, and effective avenue for connecting innovative companies with Special Operation Forces' (SOF) needs. Also, the speed at which SOFWERX operates is breathtaking. SOF has always been a leader in defense acquisition, SOFWERX further strengthens SOF's position in moving at the speed of technology and emerging threats."

"Having the opportunity to meet with different USSOCOM entities and learn about their needs was invaluable. Through presenting at the Disrupter Event, we were able to continue the conversation with several different representatives in attendance and learn about how our technology could help their specific needs in different use cases. The SOFWERX Disrupter Event made it possible for our team to attend the SOFIC conference for the first time. It was an incredible experience and we will absolutely be returning."

"The opportunity to present our solutions for possible inclusion in the warfighter arsenal was phenomenal. Thanks to SOFWERX and the project team for the consideration and professionalism."

"SOFWERX did a great job of bringing together top thinkers and doers from industry to tackle complex challenges to deep dive and begin the process of delivering novel capabilities to the Warfighter."

"Excellent event through all aspects: planning, communication, coordination, interaction with the Client(s). It was our honor to attend."

"As always, SOFWERX does a great job of hosting informative, results-oriented events."

"The 3D Geospatial Tech Sprint was an amazing experience for Tech Maven Geospatial and our ability to get exposure to understand the CDB Data and the challenges in representing this data and providing access and updates. We had never worked with CDB data previously and are very interested to learn more about the Mobile friendly /packaged version in OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) format. We've done work previously with OGC SOS and support that in Earth Explorer 3D Map app but it was nice to interact with it more. It was a great opportunity to meet people and learn what other companies are working on and where our mobile solutions and back-end Geospatial Data Processing Web Services and Map Publishing Services could fit into the picture."

"SOFWERX puts together the greatest minds of our times to tackle impossible problems. If you don't believe it's possible, get out of their way."

"First, I was deeply impressed with the professionalism, courtesy and respect. The simple 'yes, Sir, how can I help' was impressive and appreciated. The USSOCOM 2020 Innovation Foundry Event 5 hosted by SOFWERX was professionally executed and highly valued as an exercise built to foster and marshal innovation on behalf of our warriors who risk all for protecting liberty and the lives of their fellow warriors."

"The collaboration event provided a fantastic virtual forum to interact with a number of SMEs across a broad spectrum of specialty knowledge areas, research groups, procurement programs, and tactical users - each providing unique and invaluable insight into the requirements for BEMO system development."

"The format and content delivered in this collaborative event was outstanding. A very nice recovery under the COVID-19 conditions. SOFWERX should consider making these types of events routine."

"The SOFWERX "Virtual" Collaboration Event was a huge success. Given the current environment surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and all the travel restrictions in place, it was great to see SOCOM and SOFWERX come up with a way to still hold the event. It was just like attending a normal industry day event, but without having to travel. Great Job!"

"Incredible, well organized, fast paced, hard work of teams made of the world-class experts to help USSOCOM define strategic technology development needs; every day I was contemplating how fortunate I was being a part of it. I am confident the USSOCOM efforts in organizing the event are more then paid off by assuring the technological superiority of the US Special Operations Forces for the years to come."

"Congratulations to the SOFWERX team for hosting RCA 5! [...] Using virtual collaboration, the team was able to produce actionable plans to get these technologies to our forces. DCCA is super proud to be a part of this team and looking forward to the next event!"

"SOFWERX in Tampa, Florida is developing a whole new, innovative , make-space meet battle-space ecosystem to cultivate game-changing ideas, practices and technologies for the US Special Forces and partners. In support of these goals, SOFWERX runs various events throughout the year that bring in leading technology experts, battle-hardened veterans and military leaders to conceptualize and identify promising technology pathways to minimize risk and maximize the effectiveness of the war-fighter in the field."

“Hands down one of the best events. Well run with an excellent roster of attendees who were and remain engaged. Highly recommend!”

“SOFWERX Tech Tuesday is a very good vehicle for companies to reach many SOCOM operators and those that are aligned with the SOCOM mission. We were able to reach government users, who we did not previously have contact with, and are now progressing with conversations and exchange of data. I would encourage all companies in particular small tech companies like us to engage with SOFWERX.”

"It was a pleasure working with SOFWERX. They have demonstrated that they can operate like a tech company in these challenging times that COVID has brought upon us all."

"SOFWERX provides an easy to navigate platform and welcoming environment for innovators to do what they do best. Don't let that next great idea slip away submit today!"