Foundational Services

The creativity and discipline to move fast at enterprise scale.

Innovation Operations

In under a year, we align the right resources and technology in order to deliver small scale capabilities to meet operational needs.

To do this, we align key stakeholders around a common objective using:

- Innovation Intelligence
- Requirements Discovery
- Market research & due diligence
- Stakeholder engagement
- Rapid prototyping & experimentation
- Transition strategy

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Workforce Development

We show you how to apply methods that really work inside large public organizations, while solving real problems, including the coaching and mentorship to make an impact and make it stick.

Join thousands of practitioners and senior leaders accelerating their mission while decreasing risk using Problem Curation®, the Innovation Pipeline®, and H4X®.
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The Bridge Between Government Funding and Impact

BMNT Ventures supports companies and entrepreneurs on behalf of government clients like the Navy SBIR Office, NASA’s Early Stage Innovation Program, SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Program, and more. 

We focus on helping companies and their government sponsors with commercialization, government market strategy, due diligence, ecosystem building, allied access to US markets, and dual-use investment strategies. 

The BMNT Difference
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We avoid innovation theater. Instead, we work with innovative program managers and senior executives to make sure that government investments result in real solutions and meaningful outcomes, whether they are SBIR grants or other support to small businesses and startups.

‍We use different methods and our trusted networks of venture investors, industry and government leaders, technology luminaries, commercial mentors, and serial entrepreneurs. 

‍We design custom Accelerator programs for specialized cohorts of companies that have more in common than the timing of award. They are an ecosystem aligned to a problem set like space logistics, blue manufacturing, or counter UAS. 
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Academic Programs

Engage the next generation of talent every semester

Through programs like H4D®, we connect the brightest students to real world problems, expanding the network of talent working towards the public good.

We partner with more than 60 universities and government agencies in three countries (US, UK, and Australia), and the Common Mission Project, to teach students innovation methods while they solve mission critical problems.

These programs have already created over 50 dual-use companies.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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What does BMNT stand for?

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Begin Morning Nautical Twilight is the time just prior to sunrise. Navigators have the best visibility, and can more easily see the pathway forward.

From a military perspective, BMNT is the moment in time when, in good conditions, enough light is available to conduct high impact operations. We draw inspiration from this to create the conditions that quickly lead to meaningful results for those you serve.

What contract vehicles is BMNT on?

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We are a prime or subcontractor on the GSA Schedule and flexible IDIQs and OTAs. We can accommodate task orders, purchase orders, R&D and O&M funds, and we can execute contracts in two weeks to two months.

We are also a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

Does BMNT do pilot projects?

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Yes. We reserve capacity for 2-3 pilot projects each year so organizations can test our capabilities.

You can also engage with our methods by sponsoring a problem in one of our academic programs.

What is the Innovation Pipeline® and H4X®?

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The Innovation Pipeline® is an end-to-end framework for teams to select and advance the right opportunities through discovery and experimentation. It clarifies how and why specific methods and tools can be useful for government teams at scale, whether you are using agile development, design thinking, change management, Scrum, and more.

HACKING 4 "X" (H4X)® is our problem-centric approach for making rapid progress through transition points. It was designed for government program managers to connect activities from the invention of an idea to the adoption of a new capability.

Both are in use at diverse organizations like the Office of Naval Research, Advanced Research Project Agency for Health (ARPA-H), Defense Logistics Agency, Transportation Security Administration, Defense Intelligence Agency, Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, and more.

What is Innovation Intelligence?

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Innovation Intelligence is the systematic employment of a Fusion Cell to integrate and analyze diverse inputs related to innovation challenges and opportunities, specifically within the context of Innovation Operations. It entails management of information feedback loops, studies/analysis, market information, and compilation/analysis of evaluations, experiments, and operational exercises, in order to inform decision-making. The purpose of the Fusion Cell is to facilitate the integration and analysis of diverse inputs related to Government challenges and emerging opportunities, enabling the extraction of actionable insights to inform and drive the innovation projects forward.