Advisors

Jeff Bond is former SBIR/STTR Program Administrator for the entire Department of Defense. In that capacity, he was responsible for the overall administration of the DoD SBIR and STTR Programs with a total combined expenditure of more than $1.1 Billion. Previous to that, Mr. Bond was the SBIR/STTR Program Manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), where he served as the Source Selection Authority on 4000 proposals, making decisions on approximately $360 million in technology investments and attracting an additional $280 million in both private and public sector investment through innovative initiatives. In his long and varied federal career, he has managed contracts sponsored by DoD, BMDO, Army, and DARPA in areas such as survivability enhancement options and camouflage, concealment, and deception technologies for ballistic missile defense systems, directed energy concepts and components, survivability technology, lethality, and thermal management, lasers, electro-optics, image intensifiers, opto-electronic materials, and systems components. During his tenure with the federal government, Mr. Bond received both Vice President Gore’s “Hammer Award,” (April 1999) and is also a 2001 SBIR Tibbetts Award winner.

Linda Whittington is president of Whittington Solutions, Inc., which provides strategic consulting services to small science and technology companies throughout the U.S. As a SBIR Program Manager at two Navy System Commands for over two decades, she has a broad range of contacts and an extensive understanding of federal regulations, government requirements, end users, and key personnel. She has special expertise in intelligence; logistics; and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR), based on over 35 years of government service. Ms. Whittington has received numerous awards for her management and innovative execution of the SBIR Program, including the SPAWAR Lightening Bolt Award, the DoD SBIR Program Manager’s Award and the Tibbetts Award. She is a frequent lecturer on small business and the federal government at state and national venues.