Government.
Exploiting innovation principles to promote public support, protection, and enhancement.
Workforce Development
The traditional goals of government jobs were to find stability and longevity in employment. Now workers are looking to enhance their careers with experiences that are generally shorter in length but higher in expertise building. Developing and sustaining the public sector workforce pipeline brings significant challenges to local, state, and federal governments as well as to education and training institutions such as colleges and universities but also private sector workforce training companies’ structures and developmental programs. We can help clarify what is needed, how to optimize the training programs from large scale such as degree-earning curricula to single training courses for workforce enhancement.
Government Innovation
60% of innovation across the United States was funded initially by grants and contracts through the federal government. Today, 167 innovation programs ranging from single offices to large research facilities exist within the US Government. Yet, the lack of awareness of these programs, the funding opportunities available within them, and the co-work available is largely absent. We can help businesses of any size work with government innovation programs whether they are looking for money to seed new prototype developments using OTA vehicles or trying to implement the findings from innovation groups into their own product line.
Program Design
From design a research, contract, or innovation idea to writing the proposal, to executing the project, we can help. Understanding the life cycle of government innovation grants and contracts requires experience as a program manager that oversees and extends program funds to private, non-profit, and research facilities. It is necessary to under the rules, the bureaucracy, the regulations, and the policies that are in play when applying for this money - and that’s just for the proposal. Understanding the inside government game can help businesses of all size better collaborate and win federal and state business.