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    Air Force invites 59 small businesses, start-ups to Air Force Pitch Day

    UNITED STATES

    03.01.2019

    Courtesy Story

    Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs     

    The Air Force is inviting 59 small businesses and start-ups to pitch live at the first Air Force Pitch Day hosted in New York March 6 and 7.

    Air Force contracting officials reviewed 417 submissions received during the 30-day application period. Submissions called for ideas furthering national security in air, space and cyberspace with a special emphasis on battlefield air operations technologies, digital technologies and command, control, communications, intelligence and network technologies.

    The Air Force plans to invest up to $40 million through this Pitch Day as part of a larger rapid contracting effort. The event is modeled after commercial investment pitch competitions to deliver a faster, smarter approach to compete for ideas in the accelerating technology ecosystem. The process is a major departure from the lengthy contractual processes typically expected of the military.

    Air Force Pitch Day is designed as a fast-track program to put companies on one-page contracts with same-day awards via the swipe of a government credit card. The opportunity affords small businesses access to the defense market and non-dilutive capital, which is funding that does not require a company to share its ownership.

    A full list of attending companies can be viewed in the related links section.

    For more information about Air Force Pitch day visit https://www.afsbirsttr.af.mil/Program/Air-Force-Pitch-Day/.

    (Story by Capt. Hope Cronin, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs)

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    Date Taken: 03.01.2019
    Date Posted: 03.01.2019 16:04
    Story ID: 312563
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