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What is the Diffusion of Innovative Technologies (DoIT) Work Unit?
Historically, there has been no programmatic or systematic approach to demonstrating, evaluating, and communicating information on new (innovative) dredging technologies in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) dredging program. The Diffusion of Innovative Technologies (DoIT) work unit of the Dredging Operations and Environmental Research (DOER) program identifies mature innovative technologies that exhibit potential to improve the USACE capacity to achieve its navigation dredging mission, objectively demonstrates/evaluates these technologies, and conducts diffusion activies to foster their use by the dredging community. Candidate technologies can consiste of either an object, practice, or idea (e.g. new types of dredging equipment, construction methods / techniques, software, surveying methods, tools, and contracting methods).
How Does DoIT Operate?
Innovation Identification:
There are several ways the DoIT work unit identifies innovation technologies; active and passive.
DoIT active steps for identifying innovative technologies include:
- Making contact with industry by holding “topic specific” as well as general forums for groups that have innovative dredging technologies.
- Contacting other agencies (government and non-governmental) that have similar needs and, therefore, possibly similar innovative ideas that are being practiced by them or that have been submitted to them.
- Conduting periodic literature reviews (at least two times per year) for appropriate technology.
A more passive, but also important, technique for identifying ideas is this DoIT website. An innovative technology can be submitted by filling out the DoIT Innovation Submission form. This submission form is received by the DoIT office and each submission will receive a tracking number and entered in to the Innovation Adoption Process (IAP).
What is the Innovation Adoption Process (IAP)?
The purpose of the process illustrated in this flowchart is to give the USACE a standard process for identifying, evaluating and fostering the implementation of mature innovative dredging technologies suitable for use in navigation dredging applications. This is not the process for identifying and funding R&D ideas.
What selection criteria are candidate innovations initially evaluated upon?
- Applicable for use in USACE navigation dredging?
- Is there value in USACE looking at this technology?
- Is this a mature technology ready to be demonstrated and evaluated?
- Is this something new that would result in a benefit to the USACE?
- Is this technology R&D or something the USACE can implement now/ is it proven?
If I have questions about this program, whom do I contact?
Please email inquires to Timothy Welp at
Timothy.L.Welp@erdc.usace.army.mil or call 601.634.2083
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