DARPA has $112M for Small Business Innovators Ready to Change the World

Join GovCon Chamber president Neil McDonnell in a fireside chat with Jennifer Thabet, Small Business Program Office Director for DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a champion for small business innovation. 

✅ In this live interview, GovCon Chamber president Neil McDonnell and Jennifer Thabet discuss:

• What kind of 'innovation' DARPA needs from Small Businesses
• How Small Businesses apply to get access to over $112M DARPA funding
• DARPA’s non-dilutive funds for traditional government contractors and those not yet supporting federal agencies
• Why #SBIR dollars should be part of government contractor total growth strategy
• Difference between successful and unsuccessful applicants 

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🟩 ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Ms. Jennifer Thabet is an experienced program manager with an extensive background supporting DARPA and the Department of Defense (DoD). Enhancing the ability of the small business community to create and transition revolutionary technologies that benefit the warfighter, federal government, and commercial marketplace is of paramount importance in Ms. Thabet’s role of program director, DARPA Small Business Programs Office (SBPO). 

She is focused on creating an environment that considers small business concerns a primary source of innovative solutions and advancing small business relationships and training opportunities within the DoD and other federal agencies. 

Ms. Thabet also leads the agency’s inaugural Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA), DARPAConnect, an effort designed to break down barriers of entry for performers new to DARPA and the national security space and educate them on how to engage and work with DARPA.

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🟩 HOST | Neil McDonnell
president GovCon Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of GovCon in a Box
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-mcdonnell/

Small business owners trust Neil to show them HOW to earn federal government contracts and subcontracts. A passionate 'evangelist' for business development in the federal marketplace, Neil has helped 1000s of small business contractors collectively win over $3B (federal contract value).

A small business contractor in the tech space for 25+ years, Neil successfully won contracts worth hundreds of millions for the Department of Defense and civilian agencies, including

• US Army • US Navy • US Air Force • HHS • VA • White House • Departments of Education, Transportation, Interior and Energy and numerous large prime contractors

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