David McFeeters-Krone is a commercialization consultant, member of the FLC program committee, and FLC award winner. He has been involved with Tech Transfer since the 90s, serving in MIT's licensing office and one of NASA’s Regional tech transfer centers. Throughout the years, he has facilitated CRADAs at the Army, Navy, Air Force, USDA, NASA, DOE, and NIST labs. He has a physics degree from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and served on the SBA Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee. Most recently, he has worked with NIST’s MEP to connect Small Manufacturers to federal labs and Manufacturing USA. The program he co-developed (Center for Advanced Technology Solutions) spun out of an MEP focus on technology and the Manufacturing USA Institutes. Over the past 4 years, he has co-led this national pilot program to great success, helping Small Manufacturers overcome production issues that can be solved with technology, often leading them to federal labs.