Understanding the APEX Accelerator Supplemental Performance Scorecard
The APEX Accelerator Supplemental Performance Scorecard includes supplemental metrics that are not necessarily asked by DoD but that help tell the story of your APEX Program. This milestone includes the following line items:
- Areas of Counseling Provided
- Grand Counseling/Award Totals
- Milestones Completed Towards DIB/GIB Readiness
- Key Industries Breakdown
- Grand Training Totals
With respect to those line items that are based upon activity records, only reportable activity will be included on the scorecard, and the date of the activity must fall in the reporting period of the scorecard and must be assigned to one of the funding source(s) and center(s) selected on the scorecard definition.
Areas of Counseling Provided
This section of the scorecard provides additional information regarding the counseling activities of your program. All counseling activity is broken out by area of counseling. The scorecard will show you total unique clients counseled by each area of counseling; total time spent in each area of counseling; and total sessions conducted in each area of counseling. You will notice that the general category of "Government Contracting" is not one of the primary areas listed here. All counseling activity classified as "Government Contracting" along with all other categories not listed here, are included in the line item titled "All Other Assistance Areas". The breakdown by counseling area includes all clients counseled, regardless of their DIB or GIB-readiness:
- Capabilities Statement Assistance
- Cybersecurity Assistance
- Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Readiness
- Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Support
- Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI) Compliance
- Government Industrial Base (GIB) Readiness
- Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Referral
- Mentor-Protégé Program Information
- SBIR/STTR/Other Innovation Programs
- Socioeconomic Certification (WOSB/VOSB/HUBZone/etc.)
- System for Award Management (SAM) Registration
Grand Counseling/Award Totals
This next section of the scorecard includes some general information about the activities of your program. The totals represented in this section are for all clients that meet the specific parameters of the line item.
| Number of Unique Clients Counseled | This line item counts the unique clients that were counseled for any amount of time during the reporting period regardless of their DIB/GIB-readiness status. |
| Total Counseling Time with All Clients | This line item counts the total prep + contact time spent with clients during the reporting period. |
| Number of All Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total number of awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Amount of All Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total dollar amount of all awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Number of DoD Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total number of DoD awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Amount of DoD Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total dollar amount of DoD awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Number of Other Federal Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total number of Other Federal awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Amount of Other Federal Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total dollar amount of Other Federal awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Number of State/Local Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total number of State/Local awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
| Amount of State/Local Contract Awards to All Clients | This line item gives the total dollar amount of State/Local awards won by your clients during the reporting period. |
Milestones Completed Towards DIB/GIB Readiness
This section reports on the milestones necessary to reach DIB and/or GIB-readiness. In order to be included in these line items a client does not yet have to be DIB or GIB ready, but the completion of each milestone(s) indicates that they are working towards readiness.
| Number of Clients Registered with SAM Milestone | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Registered with SAM Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
| Number of Clients Completed Capabilities Statement Milestone | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Completed Capabilities Statement Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
| Number of Clients Passed Self-check for Contractor Responsibility Milestone | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Passed Self-check for Contractor Responsibility Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
| Number of Clients Established Competitive Marketing Strategy Milestone | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Established Competitive Marketing Strategy Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
| Number of Clients Reviewed Cybersecurity Requirements Milestone | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Reviewed Cybersecurity Requirements Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
| Number of Clients Reviewed Federal Certification Milestone | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Reviewed Federal Certification options Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
| Number of Clients Registered in State/Local Contracting Systems | This line item will give a count of unique clients that have a Registered in State/Local Contracting System Milestone during the scorecard reporting period. |
Key Industries Breakdown
This section of the scorecard identifies those clients that are working on critical and emerging technologies. This line item counts all clients in the database that have indicated that they are working in one of the Key Technology Areas identified by DoD, and who have had counseling and/or training activity during the period.
The key technology areas are:- Advanced and Networked Sensors, Sensing, and Signature
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Advanced Materials
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Biotechnologies
- Communication and Networking Technologies
- Computing and Software (Advanced)
- Cyber and Integrated Sensing
- Directed Energy
- Financial Technologies
- Future Generation Wireless Technology (FutureG)
- Gas Turbine Engine Technologies (Advanced)
- Human-Machine Interfaces
- Hypersonics
- Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems
- Microelectronics and Semiconductors
- Nuclear Energy Technologies (Advanced)
- Quantum Science including Quantum Information Technologies
- Renewable Energy Generation and Storage
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Space Technologies and Systems
Grand Training Totals
This last section of the scorecard includes some general information about your training activities.
| Number of All Training Events | This line item counts the total number of non-canceled events with a Reporting Date during the reporting period of the scorecard. |
| Total Training Attendees | This line item counts all the attendees to all your non-canceled training events where the Reporting Date falls within the reporting period of the scorecard run definition. |
| Total Training Event Hours | This line items reports the total time of training that took place during the reporting period. |
| Total Training Outreach Hours (Attendees*Hours) | This line item provides the "outreach hours" of the events which is the multiplication of the hours per event, multiplied by the attendees to that event. Thus, if you have one participated event with a 2-hour duration and 6 attendees, and another event with a 3-hour duration and 5 attendees then the outreach hours would be (2*6) + (3*5) = 27 hours. Just to be clear, it is not a calculation of all hours times all attendees. |
| Number of Training Events by Any Topic | This section lists all events by any topic. Meaning, that one event may appear multiple times if multiple topics are selected:
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