Leveraging Technology Transfer for Acquisitions

Mr. D’Onofrio leads several initiatives within the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory’s Strategic Partnerships Division.  His primary role is to support the transition of technology, building trusted relationships with partner organizations and assisting research staff in accelerating impact of their programs.   

He actively provides transition guidance and mentorship to researchers, manages ARL involvement in entrepreneurial programs to promote commercialization, and has been actively been involved with promoting ARL technology within the startup community through innovation programs.  

Currently, Mr. D’Onofrio focuses most of his time managing the execution of the first ARL program that provides transition training to the workforce called “Mission: Transition”.  This new laboratory-wide training program is designed to affect culture change within the organization, fostering a mind-set for transition using entrepreneurial skill sets.     

He is best known as a proponent for partnership building, strategic engagement and an advocate for transition.

Paul Herbert is the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific) Technology Transfer Director. NIWC Pacific is a Navy research and engineering command primarily focused on providing technical solutions for the Navy in a wide variety of areas (command and control, communications, computer technology, intelligence, surveillance, cyberspace, unmanned control systems, ocean engineering, antenna design) running the gamut from basic research, engineering, development, to life-cycle support.

Paul retired from the Navy after 20yrs, having started his naval career as a Submarine Officer and finished as an Engineering Duty Officer. He transitioned to SSC (now NIWC) Pacific in 2008, where he started work in the networks division, and then as Deputy for Operations for the S&T Department before becoming the T2 Director in 2016. Paul received his BS in Computer Science from the US Naval Academy ('89), and his MS in Applied Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School ('98).

Currently Paul’s main role is to facilitate the transfer of intellectual property, information and possibly resources among NIWC Pacific, the public and private sectors via partnering, licensing, collaboration and education.

Mark Surina is a Principal Technical Advisor in LMI Consulting, working in the U.S. Transportation Command Office of Research and Technology Applications at Scott AFB, responsible for building and executing industry, government, and academic Technology Transfer partnerships to explore new concepts and technologies for DoD use.   He was a career USAF officer as engineer, scientist, and project manager in programs including F-22, mobility aircraft simulators, improved high explosives, and test range modernization.  He commanded the Air Mobility Battlelab, one of seven innovation centers teaming USAF end-users with industry and government technologists for field trials and demonstrations. 

Mr. Stephen Colenzo is the Technology Transfer Lead, in the Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate (AFRL/RI), Rome, New York.  In this position, he defines, leads, and manages the transfer of directorate technology, intellectual property, processes, and products to practical applications outside the of The Department of The Air Force. 

Mr. Colenzo entered federal civilian service in 2003 starting his career in the Information Systems Division where he performed research and development of cyber technologies for resilient Command and Control mission systems.  He later defined and developed multiple successful AFRL/RI programs for the stand up of the Cyber Command and Control Branch.  Mr. Colenzo then moved into the Intelligence Data Handling Systems (IDHS) branch within the Intelligence Systems Division where he directed and led a $50M Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budget for two deployed software baselines in intelligence reporting and analysis.  In this capacity he worked with every DoD Combatant Command prioritizing requirements and software features to achieve their intelligence mission objectives.  After over 10 years spent in the Mission Divisions in AFRL/RI, He moved on to become the Technology Transfer lead in the ORTA within the Strategic Planning & Integration Division at AFRL/RI.