Prime Applicant – Project Title

1. Prime Applicant – Project Title • Place overview graphics here • (this quadrant should be ~85% graphics, 15% text) • Illustrate what you are trying to do. • What is the problem you seek to address? • Why is this challenging? • Identify the Federal stakeholders and their formal requirement. • Elaborate on the potential impact on federal stakeholder mission. • What is, and what are the limitations of, current practice? • What is new in your approach? • Summary of benefits for the federal customers • Identify Team members • Elaborate on potential economic development impact for the state of Ohio. • Including jobs, additional research (federal grants, sponsored research, etc • Identify commercial impact industry/sector/business partners • Requested Budget Total: [$] (per member and project totals) • Year 1: [$], Year 2:[$] (project yearly total only). • Period of Performance: [months] • Milestones: [up to 4] • Add highlights of your research plan. • List Deliverables • Identify key technical risks

2. Federal Customer Problem/Need • Heilmeier: • What are you trying to do? • Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon. • How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? • Clearly identify who your customer is (Agency, department/directorate, office, etc.) • Describe their mission need / gap / risk • Describe how big the problem is – show it is important to solve • Describe the problem in terms that will make it easy to understand (later) how your solution will address the problem • Provide enough technical information to understand the problem, but don’t focus exclusively on technical content. Avoid jargon!

3. Solutions, Alternatives, and Gaps • Heilmeier: • How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? • What is the state of the art? • What are the limitations of the state of the art? • What alternative (or competitive) solutions exist? • What are their limitations? • Not just what exists today, but what else will/may/could exist in the same time frame as your solution will take to develop?

4. Proposed Solution • Heilmeier: • What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? • Describe your proposed solution • Describe how it addresses the federal customer need • Specify why the federal customer wants the solution • What is the value proposition to the customer? • Discuss advantages of your solution over the status quo, competitors, alternatives, and future solutions

5. Proposed Solution • Heilmeier: • What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? • Describe your commercialization strategy and business model • How does the OFRN project seed future commercial or federal opportunities? • Discuss paths to commercial sales and follow-on federal funding

6. Project Team • Heilmeier: • What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? • Describe your project team • Organizational partners • Key personnel (technical, commercial, managerial) • Federal Customer (named person, as well as office) • Key assets/facilities leveraged • Explain why your team is the right team to solve this problem and perform the proposed work

7. Success Criteria and Milestones • Heilmeier: • What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success? • Detail: • Key customer requirements • Metrics/targets • Intermediate milestones • Key feasibility points • Go/no-go decision points

8. Success Criteria and Milestones • Heilmeier: • What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success? • Detail your demonstration project • Explain how the demonstration will validate that your project meets customer needs • Describe the location, platform, and other aspects of the demonstration • What other parties (defense and civilian) will have an interest in your demonstration, and why?

9. Risks and Mitigation • Heilmeier: • What are the risks? • Describe key technical risks (specific to your project/plan) and how you plan to mitigate them • Describe key non-technical risks (e.g. changes to federal customer’s need, teaming changes, financial risks, project management risks, etc.) and how you plan to mitigate them

10. OFRN Alignment • Heilmeier: • Who cares? • If you are successful, what difference will it make? • Describe how your project aligns with OFRN’s vision of making Ohio the nation’s leader in UAS systems • How will your project impact Ohio’s UAS ecosystem? • How will Ohio’s workforce be impacted, specifically related to the UAS supply chain?

11. Potential For Impact • Heilmeier: • Who cares? • If you are successful, what difference will it make? • Describe technical impacts to the federal customer • Describe potential impacts beyond the federal customer

12. Potential For Economic Impacts • Heilmeier: • Who cares? • If you are successful, what difference will it make? • Describe potential for follow-on funding • Describe planned, concrete sources • Show the route planned to secure funding, and any engagement with follow-on funders • Describe economic impacts such as jobs created, capital raised, and sales generated.

13. Project Budget • Heilmeier: • How much will it cost? • Detail project budget, by category and time period • Detail partner funding proportions • Graphs are a good idea!

14. Project Schedule • Heilmeier: • How long will it take? • Gantt Chart • Label Major Milestones or Decision Points