AGENDA –2016 Winter IDCC Meeting
Host: Lutron Electronics, Inc.
@ Lutron Electronics Office, 455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
Wednesday February 10
1:00 pm / Welcome, Open the Meeting, & Agenda overviewPlease review the Anti-Trust Compliance (last pg) / Morgan Sibbald &
Alan Ayers
1:10 pm / Lutron Electronics / Russ Smith
1:30 pm / Washington Update / The Law Firm,
Baker Donelson
2:30pm / Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA)
· An overview of DARPA and the organization
· DARPA's strategy
· Research initiatives and approaches
· How best for IDCC Companies to engage with DARPA & requirements for DARPA Projects / Dick Urban
Special Assistant to the DARPA Director
4:00 pm / BREAK
4:30 pm` / DOE EERE Strategic Plan and QER
· An overview of your office and role.
· EERE Strategic Plan
· Quadrennial Energy Review
· What are the next steps to get more specific information about the QER or EERE Strategic Plan and how IDCC Companies might engage on key topics / John Lushetsky
EERE's Strategic Programs Director
5:30 pm / Wrap up, discussion, & follow up / Alan Ayers
5:45 pm / Adjourn / Morgan Sibbald
6:00 pm Dinner: Texas de Brazil, Suite 100, 455 Mass Ave, NW Washington, DC
Thursday February 11
8:30 am / Informal discussion as you arriveContinental breakfast & refreshments / ALL
9:00 am / Re-Open the Meeting / Morgan Sibbald
9:05 am / National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL)
· An overview of NSTXL
· Your mission, strategies, and roles
· How you interface between companies and DOD
· How would the IDCC member companies work with you to collaborate with DOD? / Tim Greeff
Co-Founder & CEO NSTXL
10:35 am / BREAK
10:45 am / IDCC Goal Development – A roundtable collection from member companies. Please be prepared with your thoughts. / Alan Ayers
11:00 am / · Meeting calendar (see below agenda)
· Future topics / Alan Ayers
11:30 pm / Roundtable discussion & Lunch / ALL
1:00 pm / Adjourn Meeting / Morgan Sibbald
2016 Spring Meeting May 3 & 4, 2016 Host: Air Products & Chemicals
2016 Summer Meeting July 12 & 13 Host Corning
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Planned Meeting Attendance - 2016 IDCC Winter Meeting:
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IDCC 2008 SHORT TERM GOALS.
1. Learn about and respond to requests on proposed statutory and regulatory actions that affect commercial enterprise interactions with the Federal government.
a. Support acquisition reform improvements
2. Work for clear, broadly used definition of Commercial Entity (or business unit or non-traditional contractor).
a. Raise the $650k threshold to modified CAS for Nontraditional contractor?
3. Meet with Federal Agencies and laboratories (particularly DoD and DOE) to:
a. Learn about their priorities and technology needs,
b. Understand priorities and processes for targeted agencies,
c. Communicate technology strengths of IDCC companies that might best match their needs, (or best meet their program goals)
d. Discuss the processes and barriers that impede government access to the very best developments in commercial R&D labs.
4. Broaden use of OTAs and TIAs.
a. Within DOE focusing on two offices: FE (Fossil Energy) and EE (Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy).
b. Focus on DoD.
c. Develop a generic OTA justification statement and model OTA. Learn and respond to requests on proposed statutory and regulatory actions that affect Commercial Enterprise interactions with the government
2008 LONGER-TERM GOALS
1. Enhance the government’s ability to access and leverage commercial R&D.
2. Work for R&D to be classified as a commercial item, commercial service or commercial R&D when provided by a commercial entity, commercial business unit or non-traditional contractor.
3. Work to develop flexibility in federal practices involving intellectual property ownership and rights.
a. Rights in data.
b. Enable members to use a durable mechanism for sharing commercial R&D that potentially fits agency needs.
4. Work to assure that the government continues to benefit from the original Acquisition Reform improvements proposed by the Section 800 panel and legislated by FASA/FARA.
5. Familiarize IDCC members with Prime contractor’s current practices as they relate to conducting business with the Federal government and ensure a mechanism to remain current.
Internal list:
6. Maintain and enhance the visibility of IDCC to Federal agencies and Congress. (Internal goal only)
7. Modernize Bayh-Dole and its implementing regulationsbb
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Speaker Biographies
Dick Urban - Special Assistant to the Director at DARPA
John Lushetsky - EERE Strategic Programs Director
John Lushetsky serves as EERE's Strategic Programs Director. Reporting directly to EERE's Assistance Secretary, he oversees key cross-cutting programs and activities that further EERE's mission to lead the transition to a clean energy economy. This includes initiatives to strengthen clean energy manufacturing, increase the effectiveness of our national laboratories, speed the rate of technology commercialization and deployment, and open new international markets for U.S. clean energy businesses.
Before serving in this role, he was the founding Executive Director of the Army's Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), which executed the Army's large-scale renewable energy goals through public-private partnerships. In this position, he identified and developed candidate projects eligible for competitive procurement to build a 1 gigawatt portfolio of renewable energy projects on U.S. Army installations. He received the Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service from Army Secretary John McHugh for his leadership and EITF contributions.
John previously served as DOE's Solar Energy Technology Program Director, where he developed and commercialized advanced solar technologies. He also was named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, overseeing deployment of advanced vehicle technologies and energy efficiency technology commercialization.
John brings a wealth of experience to his current position. Before joining EERE, he held a number of senior positions in business operations, strategy, and market development for Corning, Inc. He also initiated and managed venture capital investments and other initiatives to expand the company's access to new technologies.
He holds an MBA in International Business from George Washington University and an M.S. and B.S. with high honors in Engineering Science from the University of Florida.
Tim Greeff - Cofounder & CEO of the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL)
Tim has over 15 years of experience in advocacy, policy, communications and campaign management. Tim is Co-founder and Executive Director of the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL), a non-profit consortium of corporate, academic and innovation members chartered to accelerate the discovery and deployment of new energy technology solutions across all branches of the nation's military.
Over his career, Tim has founded and built national associations, directed recording-breaking campaigns, convened and managed numerous coalitions, and lead successful advocacy efforts at the national, state and local levels. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the Sanford Institute at Duke University and a BA in Government from the University of Texas, Austin. A native Texan, Tim recently returned to Austin with his wife Amanda after a 10-year stint in Washington DC.
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GENERAL RULES OF ANTITRUST COMPLIANCE OF THE IDCC
4/27/2010
The following rules are applicable to all IDCC activities and must be observed in all situations and under all circumstances, without exception or qualification other than as noted below.
1. Neither the IDCC nor any committee, conference or activity of IDCC shall be used for the purpose of bringing about, or attempting to bring about, any understanding or agreement, whether written or oral, formal or informal, expressed or implied, among competitors with regard to prices, terms or conditions of sale, discounts, distribution, volume of production, territories or customers.
2. No IDCC activity or communication shall include discussion or action, for any purpose or in any fashion, of prices or pricing methods, production quotas or other limitations on either the timing or volume of production or of sales, cost of production or raw materials, or involve allocation of territories or markets or customers in any way.
3. No IDCC committee shall undertake any activity, which involves exchange or collection and dissemination among competitors, of any information regarding prices, pricing methods, costs of production or raw materials, or of sales or distribution or individual nonpublic company statistics of any kind, without first obtaining the advice of President of the IDCC as to those proper and lawful methods by which these activities may be pursued, as well as counsel from the IDCC member company’s law department.
4. No IDCC activity or communication shall include any discussion or action which might be construed as an attempt to prevent any person or business entity from gaining access to any market or to any customer for goods or services, or to prevent or boycott any business entity from obtaining a supply of goods or otherwise purchasing goods or services freely in the market.
5. No IDCC activity or communication shall include any discussion or action which might be construed as an agreement or understanding to refrain from purchasing (or limit the prices paid for) any raw materials, equipment, services or other supplies from any supplier.
6. Neither the IDCC nor any committee thereof, shall make any effort to bring about the standardization of any product or method of manufacture or certification of any product or program for the purpose of preventing the manufacture or sale of any product not conforming to a specified standard or which would tend to have the overall effect of either lessening competition or resulting in a degree of price stabilization.
7. In conducting IDCC meetings, the president or chairman thereof shall prepare and follow a formal agenda, which will include an acknowledgment of these rules. Minutes of each meeting shall be distributed to all persons who attended such meetings. Copies of the minutes shall be retained by the President.
8. In informal or social discussions at the site of an IDCC meeting, which are beyond the control of its officers and president, all representatives are expected to observe the same standards of personal conduct required of the IDCC in its compliance with these antitrust guidelines. In addition, copies of the foregoing Antitrust Policy Statement and General Rules of Antitrust Compliance will be available at meetings and provided to new members.
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