The EDGE® Innovation Network is a revolutionary model where industry, academia, and non-profit organizations, along with government entities, collaborate in an open community environment to rapidly deliver new technologies and innovative capabilities to warfighters and first responders. Read more in our Information Paper.

The EDGE create and maintain an open environment where members and customers can characterize, nurture, develop and deliver current and emerging technologies and capabilities to equip a more mobile, better connected and better informed end-user.

The open collaborative environment of the EDGE helps industry and academia members to better understand user needs and more rapidly develop emerging technologies in a very flexible agile nature.

For members, the EDGE Innovation Network can potentially increase business opportunities in the government sector and between industries, by focusing research investments on technology and capabilities that customers and users truly need.

For customers and end users, the EDGE provides a forum for “idea incubation” on the art of the possible and affordable using emerging technologies. To create this “idea incubation”, the EDGE draws from a broad range of technologies that are often not visible to government agencies. The outcome is a larger set of potential solutions.

The EDGE® maintains an event schedule available on the website. EDGE members can elect to participate by registering for the event at the URL normally provided and notifying the EDGE Enterprise staff with you’re a a request to participate. Executive and Technology members pay no fee for participation. Contributing level members may be required to pay a nominal fee to cover expenses.

Yes. A good number of Business Services members have expertise in specific domains and customer bases. You can review them on our Members page. We are not responsible for any transactions resulting from such introductions. Members have the responsibility for protecting their Intellectual Property.

Given the rapid pace of technology development and the vast breadth of those technologies, no single company has all the answers internally to meet the needs of its customers. Furthermore, going it alone is prohibitively costly and time-consuming. Collaboration between industry, academia, non-profit, and service organizations yields increased awareness of customers, end users and markets, as well as the ability to better leverage a collective set of ideas, available technologies, and resources.

New Member Orientation sessions are scheduled periodically based on the volume of new members joining the EDGE®. Currently, the EDGE conducts virtual introductions approximately every other week. New members will be notified by invitation email. If you can’t make it on the date scheduled, you can attend the next session.

The EDGE® encourages you to send us alternate contacts to receive routine communications from the Enterprise team. You can do this when you submit information after your initial orientation or any other time. Send your request with contact information to edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com.

Send a request to us at edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com or call our toll free line at 1-888-406-EDGE (3343) in the Continental U.S. Those outside the U.S. should call 1-877-466-9467. We’ll provide information on the particular Innovation Center of interest and contact information for the appropriate EDGE® Innovation Center coordinator.

The EDGE® has a number of mechanisms to help your company gain exposure. Once you become a member, you can submit a company description for posting on the EDGE Innovation Network website. This is seen by EDGE members and many technology companies and government agencies that monitor the website. There are also opportunities to share technology highlights and lead virtual collaboration webinars that are viewed by the EDGE Innovation Network membership. All of these opportunities are an integral part of your EDGE Innovation Network membership.

A list of current EDGE members can be found here.

There are several levels of membership including a no-cost membership. To see membership levels and benefits, visit our membership page.

The EDGE® Innovation Network can potentially increase business opportunities in the government sector and between industries by focusing research investments on technology and capabilities that customers and users truly need. View the benefits at each level of membership.

To apply for an industry or academia membership, simply fill out the required information on the member form and submit. We’ll contact you with more information and begin to process your member agreement. If you represent a government entity, then fill out and submit the government form for more information.

Contact the EDGE® at edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com or call our toll free line at 1-888-406-EDGE (3343) in the Continental U.S. Those outside the U.S. can call 1-877-466-9467. You can also attend a online member orientation session. Arrangements can be made through any EDGE enterprise staff member.

View the EDGE® Information paper or the membership benefits chart to compare benefits. If you still have questions, contact us at edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com and we’ll be happy to explain more.

EDGE® membership includes a general Non-Disclosure Agreement. This enables our open communication and IP protection with the EDGE enterprise staff. If at any time it becomes beneficial for you to collaborate with another EDGE member directly, we strongly encourage you to establish an additional NDA with that member organization to provide mutual IP protection.

Joining the EDGE® does not bind you to any contractual limitations. The membership agreement is not a teaming agreement and does not prohibit you from doing business with other entities who are not EDGE members.

Calls for Innovation are notices to industry and academia about an opportunity to innovate. Commonly referred to as CFIs, the objective is to share a technology opportunity or capability gap with a wide audience and then let the responders share innovative solutions with the CFI author.

Yes, you can. Address your response to the contact provided in the CFI. However, non EDGE® members do not get the benefit of socializing their solutions with other members. We suggest you send an email to edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com and request that an EDGE member relations representative contact you and schedule an orientation session so you can learn how the benefits of membership can help your organization.

Visioneering is a collaborative process focused on understanding or further defining end user needs or concepts of operations from which potential EDGE® projects are developed. Results are used by both government and EDGE members to rapidly develop, evaluate and field the best possible technological solutions for the need or requirement.

EDGE members have collaborated on several projects that have been either evaluated and fielded to customers or incorporated into government programs of record. You can view some of these projects and results on our projects page.

The EDGE® is very interested its members’ success and supports small business member innovative research and development. Contact edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com with your request for SBIR support. Provide your contact information, topic description, high level description of your idea and we will work with you to review its applicability to your target program and determine how best to support you.

Any EDGE® member can generate a Call for Innovation. Contact us at edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com and we’ll provide a template and guidance for publishing the CFI.

You can email us at edgeinnovation@gdc4s.com or call us at 1-888-406-EDGE (3343). Our enterprise staff members will answer any questions you may have about the EDGE.

In order to obtain member information, you need to become a member. EDGE members have access to our Knowledge Management System and can search for any EDGE member’s contact information as well as see project in development throughout the EDGE.

You can access information about EDGE® members on our website. They are listed by membership category and provide publicly available information on each organization. We do not provide membership list as a marketing tool. We have other means for members to access a wide audience and we brief new members on how to interface with the EDGE enterprise.