Where we at? On the verge of commercialization? Seems like it. eMagin has over 20 of these...Gov and Private sources of funding sure look like the DPA has been sniffing around...

Government Programs of Record A Program of Record (POR) is an Acquisition Program which is a directed, funded effort that provides a new, improved, or continuing materiel, weapon, or information system or service capability in response to an approved need. Acquisition programs are divided into categories that are established to facilitate decentralized decision making, execution, and compliance with statutory requirements. The Program of Record is as-recorded in the current Future Year's Defense Program (FYDP) or as updated from the last FYDP by approved program documentation (e.g., APB, acquisition strategy, SAR, etc.). When this happens, the program becomes a "line item record" in the budget -- hence the term "program of record".

Remember the Primes and the DOD audited the IBM Campus joint a while back?
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The problem with the suffering ones is that we've been crawling through "The Gap". The Valley of Death.

And this is what most of the crew have been crawling towards, this hitherto unknown oasis...


Commercial_ Commercial is essentially Non-Government markets and opportunities. These can include any customer company focused on one of a number of markets such as consumer, industrial, medical, energy, IT/cyber, etc. Taken together with the definition of commercialization, which is “the process of developing products, processes, technologies, or services; and the production and delivery (whether by the originating party or others) of products, processes, technologies, or services for sale to or use by commercial markets”, there are a number of “offerings” you can provide to your targeted customer.

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