| Creating Opportunities |
SOFWERX creates opportunities to solve challenging Warfighter problems through Discovery, Engagement, and Acceleration of critical thought and capabilities at scale. As we continue to curate and mature our innovation practices for Special Operations Forces, thought Leadership and transparency will remain the touchstones of our success. Below are the metrics used by the CMD to guide our efforts and those of our valuable ecosystem partners.
Ecosystem
Comprised of Industry, Academia, National Labs, Government, and other Non-Traditional Small Businesses who helps us solve challenging problems for the Warfighter
Email Constituents
Who subscribes to SOFWERX alerts?
Submission Origination
Where do event submissions originate?
Ecosystem Growth
Annual ecosystem numbers comprised of email constituents and social media followers
Discovery
Explore and evaluate previously inaccessible technological approaches to extend the competitive advantage for SOF
Tech Tuesday
Weekly event to discover transformational technologies
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578
Ecosystem
569
Submissions
198
Selected Tech
Engagement
Deliberate collisions between USSOCOM and external innovation partners
SOFWERX Events
SOFWERX has hosted 186 events to explore new or novel capabilities
Event Statistics
Events to increase engagement with Ecosystem constituents
The quantity and quality of responses to Warfighter challenges demonstrates the level of engagement from the SOFWERX Ecosystem.
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142
Average RSVP
53
Average Tech Submissions
13
Average Tech Submission Selected
Acceleration
Increasing the velocity and volume of technologies to ensure SOF supremacy
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
The purpose of the SBIR program is to leverage non-tradtiional Industry Partners and expedite award decisions and funding of SBIR Phase II applications that have a high potential for commercialization.
SBIR Statistics Through SOFWERX
Success with SBIR
From 2019 - 2021
Total amount from SBIR and S&T Funds: $7,558,794
SBIR Phase I Contracts: 8
SBIR Phase II Contracts: 4
SBIR Phase I Contracts Completed: 5
Impact
Results which have the potential to directly support the Special Forces Operator
$32,224,864.69
From 2015-2021, SWX has contracted $32,224,864.69 through 599 Purchase Orders and Business to Business Agreements.
Impacts
Impact Definitions
Knowledge Transfer: Any new, novel or provocative idea, technique or technology we are able to share with USSCOM.
Validations: Born of our ideation sessions, we validate ideas and concepts as well as define the coalition of the willing, the acquisition strategy and implementation plan.
Consignment: Successful projects that are adopted, however the end item cost does not warrant moving to a program of record and the stakeholders purchase locally.
Transitions: This is the metric that USSOCOM AE cares the most about. A project is considered a transition when USSOCOM awards a new contractual vehicle to provide a new, improved, or continuing material, weapon, information system or service capability in response to an approved need or transitions to a Program of Record (PoR).
236
From 2015-2021, SWX has conducted 236 projects through Collaborative Project Orders to further advance technologies to the Warfighter.
Collaborative Project Orders are defined as stand-alone orders issued by the USSOCOM Agreements Officer to fund specific projects under the PIA. The CPO award includes a Statement of Objectives or Statement of Work (SOW), a Period of Performance schedule, and an contract value.
