Defensewerx

Pia - partnership intermediary agreement that includes innovation and collaboration, technology transfer, workforce development, and neutral facilitation. For innovation and collaboration services the organization creates and maintains innovation and colloboration environments that enable customers to effectively expand their scientific research project's performance. For technology transfer the organization works with government, industry and academia to explore innovative strategies for effectively transferring government laboratory scientific research technologies to the commercial marketplace and vice versa. Defensewerx hosts and conducts forums to facilitate the exchange of technology ideas between goverment researchers, commercial entities and academic entities to share information and identify potential commercialization opporunities.for workforce development the organization seeks to support education opportunities to the current workforce to enhance or expand their skill sets in a variety of both traditional and non-traditional methods. These approaches may range from classroom style functional training, to leadership seminars, to creative workshops or guest lecturers. Defensewerx also works with the air force research laboratory, okaloosa county school district, northwest Florida state college, university of west Florida, Florida state university, and university of Florida to expose young students to high-caliber science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) learning opportunities.