<div anchor>Program highlights</div>
Program Highlights
- Work with U.S. Government labs and inventors who are developing cutting edge technologies
- Leverage the chance to license government technology to develop new, dual-use solutions
- Conduct customer discovery with end-users and subject matter experts across the DoD and the private sector
- Compete for $50,000 in total prizes at the final Showcase Day event
<div anchor>A deeper dive</div>
A Deeper Dive
Forge identifies Department of Defense (DoD) technologies available for commercialization and matches them with startup companies to participate in the cohort.
How It Works
- Accepted participants are paired with a technology from DoD labs
- Cohort companies learn valuable business and tech skills over the 12-week program
- Ventures pitch their use case at the final Showcase Day event
- Participants have the chance to license government technology to develop new, dual-use solutions


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