Colleen Gibney has served as the SBIR Deputy Project Manager at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC), Fort Detrick, MD, since 2016. USAMRDC currently manages the Defense Health Agency (DHA) SBIR and STTR Programs for the DHA SBIR/STTR Program Director. DHA SBIR/STTR funds critical operational medicine capabilities for service members. Prior to this role, Colleen provided SBIR and STTR technology transition and commercialization assistance support to small
business performers (DHA and Army medical) at USAMRDC.
Before arriving at Fort Detrick eleven years ago, Colleen served as the SBIR Program Director for ITAC, the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) co-funded center for New York City, under NYMEP’s SBA-awarded FAST Program, and as the Project Manager for an NSF Partnerships for Innovation initiative at the City University of New York’s Institute for Software Design and Development. Colleen has been working with SBIR/STTR; America’s Seed Fund, from multiple vantage points, since 2004. She has a particular interest in using lean product development tactics to work through the messy parts of collaborative innovation