Fueling Innovation by Encouraging Creativity Elevate is an Airmen-led innovation office focused on connecting our Airmen's problems to those in industry, academia or government. At Elevate we also work closely with AFWERX, the Secretary of the Air Force's innovation arm and the main conduit for executing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funds for the Air Force. Elevate is a grassroots innovation program whose mission is to bring tomorrow’s tools to the warfighter today while inspiring a bottom‐up culture of innovation. Our cell creates unique opportunities for external partners to work directly with military on interesting problems & allows for rapid fielding solutions.
Maker & Collaboration Space
Smaller Projects & Shorter-Term Solutions
A Chief of the Staff of the Air Force Squadron Revitalization program to help:
Four Phase Approach
Bigger Projects & Longer-Term Solutions – Home Runs
Three Phase Program
During the USAF’s inaugural ‘Pitch Day’ (6-7 Mar 19), 242 sole-source SBIR contracts were awarded in just one week totaling $75 million.
SBIR Bottom-Line - If your unit’s requirements (problem sets) match a potential for a small business to develop a solution, SBIR could be a pathway.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) TED Radio Hour: Failure Is An Option
Difference Between Innovation and Invention
Why Innovation is Crucial to Your Organization
What Really Makes Something Innovative?
How Leaders Inspire Innovation
Leader's inspiration
"...We have to think about the technology and the innovation that we need 10 to 15 to 20 years from now. We have to start thinking about it and start building it right now." - CMSAF Kaleth O. Wright
"Innovative Airmen find better ways of doing the mission... Their intrapreneurship makes us more lethal, more efficient — they must be supported by leaders who not only remove unnecessary barriers to success, but who also lift up and champion their ideas... And because we’ve shown them we believe in their ideas, I want them to keep swinging until we find the answer." - Gen David L. Goldfein
"Innovation doesn’t happen by accident. It is fueled from a spirit of experimentation and driven by Airmen with the best training, the right tools, and a workplace environment that promotes innovation. The threat and environmental challenges presented by our adversaries require that we aggressively investigate mission-focused ideas involving machine learning, artificial intelligence, autonomy, big data analytics... AMC will make bold investments in innovation that increase readiness and posture AMC forces to remain effective in a fast-paced and challenging future." - Gen Maryanne Miller
“We are at the beginning of a big culture shift in the government. We woke up and said we are not the only funder or inventor of new technology anymore…we are a partner with those who do.” – Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
Chief Innovation Officer Maj. Adam Wallace
Deputy Innovation Officer Capt. Austin Duncan
Chief Maker TSgt. Brandon Barnes
Wing Innovation Officer 1st Lt. Thomas Goetze Contact Us Email: Elev8scott@gmail.com Phone: 618-256-4802 Where are we located? Lab: 101 Heritage Dr., Scott AFB IL 62221 Elevate is located on the main floor of the Wing HQ building (P-3).
Send us an email with the information below, and we'll take a look at your idea!"
Automated scanner at the gates/Biometric scanners at the metro link - see Capt. Duncan for more info.
AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) IdeaScale