{"id":1831,"date":"2024-11-28T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2024-11-28T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:27:10","slug":"navys-big-ideas-challenge-for-the-iw-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Navy\u2019s BIG IDEAS Challenge for the IW Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you have a big idea that can help our Navy solve a problem?<\/p>\n

The Navy\u2019s IBoss Vice Adm. Mike Vernazza is launching the Big Ideas Challenge, a \u201cShark Tank\u201d style competition for IW Sailors and government civilians to propose innovative solutions to current and future Naval challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) is the Navy\u2019s Information Warfare (IW) Type Command (TYCOM) responsible for manning, training, equipping, and certifying combat-ready IW forces to fight and win our Nation\u2019s wars. \u00a0The IW domain extends from seabed to space; is critical to our Navy\u2019s success in competition, crisis and conflict; and underpins all Naval warfighting capabilities!<\/p>\n

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Our 60,000+ IW professionals are our asymmetric advantage \u2013 IW warriors \u201cthink, act, and operate differently.\u201d \u00a0This Challenge is an opportunity to unlock new ideas and bring fresh perspectives to meet current and future challenges through optimization, modernization and transformation.<\/p>\n

Program Overview<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The Big Ideas Challenge creates a direct line to the IBoss for any IW Sailor or government civilian to propose and \/ or demonstrate their solution, big or small, for the IW enterprise. \u00a0Selected winners will have a chance to implement their idea at-scale and a potential partnership with private industry and academia.<\/p>\n

There are four submission categories<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

IW Readiness<\/p>\n

IW Training<\/p>\n

Advancing IW Warfighting Capabilities<\/p>\n

IW Alignment and Integration (includes business processes and process improvements)<\/p>\n

Submission deadline is 17 January 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Following the deadline, a group of Phase I judges will select the top 10 percent to move forward into Phase II.<\/p>\n

Phase II judges will select the top 2 candidates per category (8 total) to move onto the final stage: Pitch Day.<\/p>\n

IBoss will judge the finalists during Pitch Day and award one winner per category.\u00a0 Winners will be awarded a cash prize and honorary recognition.<\/p>\n

Participants can access the Big Ideas Challenge submission portal here<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact our team at IWBigIdeasChallenge@us.navy.mil<\/p>\n

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Do you have a big idea that can help our Navy solve a problem? The Navy\u2019s IBoss Vice Adm. Mike Vernazza is launching the Big Ideas Challenge, a \u201cShark Tank\u201d style competition for IW Sailors and government civilians to propose innovative solutions to current and future Naval challenges.\u00a0 Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) is the Navy\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-navy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}