1. Prime Applicant – Project Title
Place overview graphics here
(this quadrant should be ~85% graphics, 15% text)
Illustrate what you are trying to do.
What is the problem you seek to address?
Why is this challenging?
Identify the Federal stakeholders and their formal requirement.
Elaborate on the potential impact on federal stakeholder mission.
What is, and what are the limitations of, current practice?
What is new in your approach?
Summary of benefits for the federal customers
Identify Team members
Elaborate on potential economic development impact for the state of Ohio.
Including jobs, additional research (federal grants, sponsored research, etc
Identify commercial impact industry/sector/business partners
Requested Budget Total: [$] (per member and project totals)
Year 1: [$], Year 2:[$] (project yearly total only).
Period of Performance: [months]
Milestones: [up to 4]
Add highlights of your research plan.
List Deliverables
Identify key technical risks

2. Federal Customer Problem/Need
Heilmeier:
What are you trying to do?
Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon.
How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?
Clearly identify who your customer is (Agency, department/directorate, office, etc.)
Describe their mission need / gap / risk
Describe how big the problem is – show it is important to solve
Describe the problem in terms that will make it easy to understand (later) how your solution will address the problem
Provide enough technical information to understand the problem, but don’t focus exclusively on technical content. Avoid jargon!

3. Solutions, Alternatives, and Gaps
Heilmeier:
How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?
What is the state of the art?
What are the limitations of the state of the art?
What alternative (or competitive) solutions exist?
What are their limitations?
Not just what exists today, but what else will/may/could exist in the same time frame as your solution will take to develop?

4. Proposed Solution Describe your proposed solution
Heilmeier:
What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
Describe your proposed solution
Describe how it addresses the federal customer need
Specify why the federal customer wants the solution
What is the value proposition to the customer?
Discuss advantages of your solution over the status quo, competitors, alternatives, and future solutions

5. Proposed Solution
Heilmeier:
What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
Describe your commercialization strategy and business model
How does the OFRN project seed future commercial or federal opportunities?
Discuss paths to commercial sales and follow-on federal funding

6. Project Team Describe your project team
Heilmeier:
What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
Describe your project team
Organizational partners
Key personnel (technical, commercial, managerial)
Federal Customer (named person, as well as office)
Key assets/facilities leveraged
Explain why your team is the right team to solve this problem and perform the proposed work

7. Success Criteria and Milestones
Heilmeier:
What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?
Detail:
Key customer requirements
Metrics/targets
Intermediate milestones
Key feasibility points
Go/no-go decision points

8. Success Criteria and Milestones
Heilmeier:
What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?
Detail your demonstration project
Explain how the demonstration will validate that your project meets customer needs
Describe the location, platform, and other aspects of the demonstration
What other parties (defense and civilian) will have an interest in your demonstration, and why?

9. Risks and Mitigation
Heilmeier:
What are the risks?
Describe key technical risks (specific to your project/plan) and how you plan to mitigate them
Describe key non-technical risks (e.g. changes to federal customer’s need, teaming changes, financial risks, project management risks, etc.) and how you plan to mitigate them

10. OFRN Alignment
Heilmeier:
Who cares?
If you are successful, what difference will it make?
Describe how your project aligns with OFRN’s vision of making Ohio the nation’s leader in UAS systems
How will your project impact Ohio’s UAS ecosystem?
How will Ohio’s workforce be impacted, specifically related to the UAS supply chain?

11. Potential For Impact
Heilmeier:
Who cares?
If you are successful, what difference will it make?
Describe technical impacts to the federal customer
Describe potential impacts beyond the federal customer

12. Potential For Economic Impacts
Heilmeier:
Who cares?
If you are successful, what difference will it make?
Describe potential for follow-on funding
Describe planned, concrete sources
Show the route planned to secure funding, and any engagement with follow-on funders
Describe economic impacts such as jobs created, capital raised, and sales generated.

13. Project Budget Detail project budget, by category and time period
Heilmeier:
How much will it cost?
Detail project budget, by category and time period
Detail partner funding proportions
Graphs are a good idea!

14. Project Schedule Heilmeier: Gantt Chart How long will it take?
Label Major Milestones or Decision Points
Task M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
Task 1
Task 1.1
Task 1.2
Task 2