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Our areas of specialized
expertise include:
Accessing
Federal Funding & Business Opportunities
TechVision21 has helped numerous clients secure multi-million
dollar appropriations, grants and contracts from the federal
government to support R&D, technology, economic development
and workforce development projects.
Homeland Security
TechVision21 knows the billion-dollar homeland security funding landscape–research, technology development, grants, and procurement.
Cybersecurity
We help clients navigate the maze of over 50 federal offices
with responsibility for developing and executing U.S. cybersecurity
policy. For example, we recently developed a strategy for
entering the federal cybersecurity market for GWSolutions
— a George Washington University Enterprise.
Matching current and forthcoming standards with “at
risk” federal agencies and funding opportunities,
TechVision21 identified target agencies, adapted marketing
materials to meet agency requirements, and introduced the
client to key federal decision makers in this area.
Education
and Workforce Development
We have decades of experience working on education and workforce development issues at the national policy
level. This includes substantial experience in connecting organizations with key government and business
leaders to establish, strengthen and identify legislative
support or marketing opportunities.
For example, working through contacts in K-12 organizations,
companies with strong sales history in school systems, and
the national teachers unions, Mary McCain
and Kathy Walsh developed a strategy for
Motorola University’s new approach
to the K-12 education market, resulting in heightened visibility,
opportunities for high impact pilot activities, and new
business opportunities. Carol Ann Meares–our Vice President for Policy–has advised Congress on IT workforce issues and IT offshoring.
Economic
Development
TechVision21's team of technology policy experts includes
former federal and state policy makers with decades of experience
in technology-based economic development. We offer proprietary
tools and methodologies to help you assess your region's
strengths and weaknesses, benchmark your performance against
the best, and build policies and programs to leverage your
unique innovation assets.
e-Learning and Advanced Learning Technologies
Business, government, educational institutions, labor and
other organizations are struggling to balance the need to
capitalize on the benefits of learning and technology with
the risk inherent in spending considerable sums on rapidly
evolving—and often unproven—products and services.
TechVision21’s team
brings deep experience in the public issues, private practices,
and successful partnerships that offer the foundation for
sound decision-making. Mary McCain developed and managed—and
Kelly Carnes served as a Commissioner on—the 2000/2001
Commission on Technology and Adult Learning,
a joint initiative of the National Governors’
Association and the American Society for
Training & Development. The Commission’s
thirty leaders from the public and private sectors developed
a framework for discussion, and recommendations for the
future, about the impacts of technology on adult, work-related
learning.
Carol Ann Meares was the architect of a White House initiative on advanced technologies for education and training. In addition, she was the conceptualizer and executive manager for Visions 2020: Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies. Visions 2020 is a look at the future of learning through the eyes of leading visionaries, including the Father of the Internet, the George Lucas Foundation, Microsoft, a world-renowned nanotechnology researcher, a designer of leading-edge theme park rides, and the designer of the most popular computer game of all time.
Fuel
Cells
TechVision21 team members have promoted and supported the
commercial fuel cell industry at the highest state and national
levels for many years.
One TechVision21 team member was the director of the automotive
industry/federal government Partnership for a New
Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) , a ground-breaking public-private
partnership that developed a portfolio of advanced automotive
technologies—including fuel cells—offering substantial
economic, environmental and national security benefits.
Another team member directed the initiative’s legislative
activities, coordinated appropriations efforts, and was
appointed Chief of Staff for the President’s Council
for Environmental Quality. PNGV was the genesis of the hybrid-fuel vehicles on the road today.
TechVision21 has continued
to:
- serve the industry, working with
companies, universities, government and industry associations
to tap into millions of dollars of government funding
for technology research;
- build high-impact alliances among
leading fuel cell companies, centers of research excellence,
government agencies, and industry and professional associations;
- and raise the profile of the industry
in Washington, D.C. and nationally.
IT
Workforce
TechVision21 team members are some of the world's foremost experts on the IT workforce.
As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy,
Kelly Carnes led the development of two path-breaking reports
on this issue, including The Digital Workforce:
Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation,
which has been downloaded from the Internet more than a
half-million times, used to teach university students, and
cited in 19 foreign countries. Vice President Carol Ann Meares is co-author of the Report to Congress on Education and Training for the IT Workforce, and a forthcoming report on Workforce Globalization in IT Services and Software.
Working with the National Association of Manufacturers,
she also spearheaded the development of GetTech,
a Telly-award winning national public awareness and information
campaign to encourage teens to pursue technology careers.
Intellectual
Property
TechVision21 team members have in-depth expertise handling
intellectual property legal and policy issues. For example,
as the first Special Advisor for Intellectual Property at
the Department of State, Charlene Flick served as the State
Department’s subject-matter expert on intellectual
property enforcement. She also acted as a liaison to US
industries affected by intellectual property theft, including
the recording industry, motion picture industry, software
industry, and the Internet and new media industries.
Internet
Regulation & Policy
TechVision21 team members have in-depth experience in all
aspects of Internet Regulation and Policy, including issues
of authentication, online privacy, data management practices,
commercial e-mail, online advertising, intellectual property
and jurisdictional issues. We also advise clients on respecting
and protecting domain names, and provide advice on online
transactions, including e-contracting and payment options.
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is today’s hottest emerging technology.
This year, the Federal government alone will invest
$1 billion in nano, U.S. industry
is making similar investments, and global investments total
more than $3 billion.
Nations and companies are making these investments to tap
the enormous economic and societal benefits possible through
the ability to manipulate matter at the molecular level
— atom by atom. TechVision21 team members know the programs, the players
and the funding opportunities available to communities,
universities, and companies.
Privacy
TechVision21 team members bring decades of experience in
privacy and information policy. Evan Hendricks—an
internationally recognized privacy expert—has written
extensively on privacy and freedom of information law, and
has provided consulting services to clients ranging from
Fortune 500 companies to emerging companies, federal and
state agencies and professional and trade associations that
seek to “get privacy right."
Charlene Flick adds privacy
to her intellectual property expertise, including a hallmark
amicus brief on behalf of a high tech association and its
member, US West, in a 10th Circuit case concerning the company's
use of personally identifiable information in its possession.
The brief’s arguments for the need to balance commercial
speech rights with consumer privacy concerns were used extensively
in the 10th Circuit’s opinion in favor of US West.
Research
and Development Policy
As former high-ranking Federal and state technology officials,
we have created, implemented and advocated for a wide variety
of innovative research and development programs and Presidential-level
technology initiatives involving numerous federal agencies
and private sector partners, including national initiatives
in electronics manufacturing, nanotechnology, advanced
automotive technologies, and advanced technologies for education and training.
Science
& Engineering Workforce/Diversity
Kelly Carnes has been a leader in several national initiatives
to promote science and engineering workforce diversity.
She currently serves as a “blue-ribbon” panelist
for BEST: Building Engineering and Science Talent. In this
capacity, she helped BEST research and write two chapters
of The Talent Imperative, a report
on ways technology-intensive employers can recruit, retain
and advance women, minorities and persons with disabilities
in technology careers.
She continues to provide research, analysis and access to
efforts in this area, building on her
leadership role in the Congressionally mandated
Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in
Science, Engineering and Technology Development,
the predecessor to BEST. Our top analysts have years of experience examining the U.S. science and engineering workforce.
Technology
Partnerships/Technology Transfer
TechVision21 team members have extensive experience promoting
technology transfer and commercialization initiatives. As
Chair of the Federal Interagency Committee on Technology
Transfer, Kelly Carnes led a successful effort
to secure legislative improvements to Federal technology
transfer laws, making the system more responsive to industry,
streamlining the process, and improving companies’
ability to rapidly move technologies from the lab to the
market.
Ms. Carnes also directed the federal government’s
bi-annual assessment of the effectiveness of its technology
transfer initiatives and policies, and implementation of
the Bayh-Dole Act and Federal Technology Transfer Act.
Ms. Carnes and other TechVision21 team members played leading
roles in successfully advocating for the preservation of
key federal programs designed to promote industrial competitiveness,
including the Advanced Technology Program
(ATP), the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
(MEP), and the Partnership for a New Generation
of Vehicles. Mary McCain was instrumental in developing
and managing the legislative coalitions that supported continuation
and expansions of MEP and ATP, and successfully argued for
inclusion of workforce development as a necessary component
of technology competitiveness.
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