About Us
The Technology Transfer for Defense (TT4D) Program transitions emerging academic technologies from the lab to defense and commercial markets. TT4D leverages its deep defense networks to align cutting-edge technology and products with critical national security challenges. It also serves as a forum for gathering government personnel (i.e. operators, engineers, researchers, and scientists), industry personnel (i.e., entrepreneurs, innovators, companies), and university academics to collaborate and solve the nation’s toughest challenges.
The TT4D Program develops technology partnerships between defense, academia, and industry to support technology transitions between sectors. We work with researchers, government officials, and companies possessing technologies critical to the operational military community. We provide end-to-end support to rapidly transition technologies from the lab or commercial market to a military operational customer.
Stanford University is noted for teaching entrepreneurship in engineering and science disciplines. The TT4D Program seeks to build on that tradition by cultivating an innovation ecosystem by bridging academia, industry, and government. We bring together experts and resources across the university to help accelerate the transition of new technologies from laboratory to market. More than 200 Stanford faculty members and staff scientists from the university’s seven schools, the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the Hoover Institution work on security-relevant research. The program actively supports, promotes, and bridges this research with the defense and intelligence communities, commercial companies operating defense-relevant products, and venture capitalists interested in funding dual-use technologies.
The Stanford Technology Transfer for Defense Program is a uniquely designed entrepreneurship program on campus to create a bridge for Stanford faculty, government, and industry around technology and innovation. The main purpose of the TT4D Program is to transfer academic knowledge and technologies into cutting-edge capabilities within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
Directors & Staff
- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Program Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
- Senior Program Manager, Precourt Institute for Energy
Advisory Board
- Entrepreneurship Professor in the School of Engineering
- Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, of Energy Science and Engineering, and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
- Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Jay Precourt Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Energy Science & Engineering, of Photon Science, by courtesy, of Materials Sci & Eng and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at Hoover
Affiliated Faculty Members
- Deputy Director, Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Rad/Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection
- Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Professor of Radiology (Canary Cancer Center) and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering
- Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
- William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science
- Associate Professor of Energy Science Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
Focus areas
Sustainable Energy
AI/ML
Autonomy
Robotics
Big Data
Technology Transition
Biotechnology
