October 5, 2021

Dr. Linda Bixby, DirectorLMI Research Institute

Academic Programs

LMI7940 Jones Branch Drive

Tysons, VA 22102

LBixby@LMI.org571-209-2587

LMI Examples of Collaboration

Advancing Collaboration for Enhanced Security

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LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government. We

incorporate emerging technologies backed by objective research and data analysis.

Founded in 1961, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness

and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies.

So What? Who Cares?

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• Space: Detection of infectious diseases, radiation, explosive devises, and other air bound

compounds at airport security checkpoints

• Problem: Need to expedite development and implementation of more

advanced sensor technologies that are effective and instantaneous

• Solution: Collaboration with industry, government research facilities,

academic research labs, think tanks, and pioneering start-ups

• Results: Provides diversity of thought and solutions, flexibility, creativity,

increased productivity, and ability to pivot quickly through collaboration

• Technology Readiness Levels (TRL): 3

What is Collaboration?

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How is collaboration different than just contracting with a performer to complete a task?

• Collaboration Definition: Two or more people, entities, or organizations purposefully

working together and strategically choosing to cooperate to accomplish a shared outcome

• Includes:

• Introspection

• Problem Solving

• Cooperation

• Positive Results:

• Innovative Ideas

• Creative Solutions

• Diversity

• Open Mindedness

• Utilizing Strengths

• Risk Taking

• Focus on a Common

Goal

How is LMI Successful in Collaboration?

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• IR&D and Prototype Development

• Academic Research Partners

• Howard University

• Pennsylvania State University

• University of Maryland

• University of Texas Austin

• University of Virginia

• Research Institute Workshops

• Operationalizing Data Ethics for Government

• Forecasting the Future: Anticipate National Security Threats

• Analytics for Resilience: Infrastructure, Supply Chain, and Climate

• Understanding Digital Indicators of Future Threats: What is Your Data Strategy?

• “Roadmap to the Possible” with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (AI/ML)

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Detection and Deterrent Critical for National Security

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Collaboration: Partners Selection Process

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• Industry

• Government Research Facilities

• Research Labs

• Think Tanks

• Pioneering Start-ups

• Non-profit Organizations

Collaboration: Leverage Needed Expertise

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• Synthetic Biology

• Synthetic Chemistry

• Biosensing

• Predictive Analysis

• Nano Detection

• Salivary Biomarkers

Collaboration: Solution Development and Implementation

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• Sensors

• Smaller

• Inconspicuous

• Multiple locations

• “Smell Test”

• Red light

• Green light

• Containment

LMI Research Institute: Innovation for Government

Our hub for IR&D and solution-driven

innovation, the LRI encompasses several

initiatives, including an ideation portal

where employees can submit concepts, and

the Forge™ for accelerating the growth of

our prototype development, offerings and

solutions.

Innovation for Government • Artificial Intelligence

• Autonomous Vehicle Policy

• Data-Driven Horizon

Scanning

• Data Management

Through the LRI, we partner and collaborate with

leading academic institutions, pioneering start-ups,

and other organizations to generate profound and

lasting customer benefits.

Our solutions break ground in these areas:

• Employee Value

Proposition

• Healthcare Management

• Predictive Analytics

• Supply Chain Resiliency

Powered by Partnerships

Led by the chief technology officer, the LRI supplies

a framework to deliver creative, technically rigorous

solutions to complex customer challenges.

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LMI Academic Programs: Academic Rigor and IR&D

The LMI Research Institute, through our

Academic Programs, has extensive

relationships with and access to university

centers, applied research labs, institutes,

and academics to help provide insight to

support our U.S. government clients.

Academic Programs facilitates formal

working relationships with universities

across the U.S., bringing industry and

academia together to spur innovation and

explore groundbreaking research to help solve

some of the governments most challenging

problems now and in the future.

Academic Research Projects

LMI leverages our five academic research

partners---Howard University*, Penn State,

University of Maryland, University of Texas Austin,

University of Virginia---and more than 35 additional

universities, to include Carnegie Mellon, Duke,

George Washington, Georgetown, Georgia Tech,

Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Morgan State*, North

Carolina A&T*, Purdue, Stanford, Tennessee State*,

Texas A&M, University of Maryland Baltimore

County**, Virginia State*, and Virginia Tech**,

utilizing their academic rigor and expertise on over

60 current contracts and future opportunities in

LMI’s Defense & Space, Health & Civilian,

Intelligence, and Homeland Security markets.

LMI invests financially in combined research

projects with our academic partners to help

solve some of the government’s toughest

scientific and technology challenges. These

research projects provide academic rigor to

our LMI independent research and

development (IR&D) efforts. LMI-sponsored

research projects for 2021 include:

LMI Academic Programs

• Internet of

Things

• Autonomous

Vehicles

• Energy

• Climate Change

Leveraging University Partnerships

• Supply Chain

Resilience

• Natural Language

Processing

• Machine Learning

• Artificial Intelligence

* – Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)** – Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI)