Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, University of Florida; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher Aliperti, United States Military Academy; Randall A. Emert; Arwen H. DeCostanza

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Diversity

May 2023. The Center houses a complete job shop with rapidprototyping and fabrication capabilities staffed by skilled and experienced civilian engineers fromCMI2. The goal of the Marne Innovation Center is to rapidly convert ideas brought by Soldiersinto viable prototypes for testing and refinement in the field. Promising ideas are then scaled upby the nonprofit CMI2, which works with DEVCOM through a Congressional initiative, calledthe Catalyst-Pathfinder program, which is managed by the Army Research Laboratory with a goalto bridge gaps in defense innovation.This paper’s goal is reporting lessons learned and best practices gleaned from this ongoingpartnership to better enable similar collaborations across organizations in the future. For