Our Vision
The Nebraska Defense Research Corporation (NDRC) provides a bridge of trust between government, industry and academia to support and promote technology discovery, facilitate knowledge transfer, and accelerates the transfer of command, control, and communications capabilities to customer operations. NDRC supports government stakeholders in shortening development timelines that deliver secure, mission-enhancing capabilities.
NDRC's Partnership Intermediary Agreement
NDRC has a Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) with the Air Force Life CycleManagement Center (AFLCMC).
NDRC falls in the Technology Demonstrations and Market Research phase of the acquisition cycle.
The PIA offers a number of benefits for NDRC and its collaborative partners:
- NDRC can engage academia and industry on behalf of the government to accelerate tech transfer and licensing
- The government is able to pay for services to support tech transfer
- NDRC can serve as an objective third-party broker between the government and industry to increase opportunities for commercializing new capabilities
- NDRC can engage in proactive marketing of government-owned technologies to industry to enable tech transition/tech insertion
Our Capabilities
NDRC is focused on integration of advanced technology capabilities supporting Strategic and Strategic Operational levels of C3 enterprise. This is accomplished through market research and demonstration cycles, or spins, which are completed twice per year to generate proposals and demonstrate capabilities to flag officers and other service branch leaders.
View our spins
Partners and Research
NDRC’s collaborative partners conduct research in various domains that contribute to the C3 mission area:
- protecting against space-based and cyber threats;
- enhancing integrated tactical warning and attack assessment;
- improving command posts and communications links;
- advancing decision support technology; and
- integrating planning and operations.
NDRC's REACH Alliance includes 80+ small and large companies.
Contact NDRC staff for a current list of members.
NDRC Resources
NDRC operates and maintains capabilities and resources that allow Collaborative Partners to access the following in support of the Research, Engineering, and Architecture Collaboration Hub (REACH) Alliance and its objectives. These capabilities and resource include:
Interim REACH Facility (iREACH)
The iREACH provides cleared collaborative partners with a secure facility and a collaboration network in Bellevue, NE to support REACH Alliance work.
Low Latency Demonstration Network
NDRC provides a low latency Internet Protocol-based demonstration network for exploring concepts in a mission-relevant environment. This network takes advantage of commercial internet, cellular, and satellite-based transports to provide end users with highly reliable communications during demonstration events.
REACH Prototype Interconnect for Demonstrations (RAPID) Network
The RAPID Network allows collaborative partners and government stakeholders to collaborate on a secure network within the iREACH facility that provides a digital design and demonstration environment. This network supports the operation of sandbox environments to protect proprietary data, while maximizing opportunities for collaboration with other REACH stakeholders.
Within this environment, NDRC will create an authoritative data repository and suite of modeling and simulation tools that support C3 concept exploration and demonstrations.
NDRC News & Events
Feb 10, 2022
Feb 10, 2022
No Upcoming Events
Key Contacts
Name
Contact
Jerry "Indy" Gandy
Executive Director, NDRC
James Taylor
Deputy Executive Director, NDRC
James Fummeler
Director of Operations
Barb Hirz
Director of Strategy and Innovation
Steve Callicut
Senior Technical Advisor
