General FAQS

The Army xTech Program, led by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics and Technology (ASA)(ALT)) handles all Army prize competitions to award and accelerate innovative technology solutions. The program breaks down barriers to entry and uncovers transformative technology solutions developed by non-defense businesses. xTech allows the Army to understand the realm of

Your technology concept can be submitted online through the xTech website. When the competition is open and accepting white papers, the website will showcase a “Submit Now” button that will direct you to the xTech evaluation system, Valid Eval, and provide instructions for submitting your white paper.

The xTech team is continuously working on providing additional opportunities for small businesses to get their technology concepts reviewed. We encourage you to check out our new competitions that are coming out as well as the additional resources listed on this page to identify other opportunities.

Upon completion of each phase, an email will be sent out to all competitors with the details on how to access your scores and comments. We encourage you to look at the scores and comments to help you understand how your technology can be improved and where it may fit within the Army. You can

You may submit the same technology concept to different competitions but if you are submitting to another iteration of the same competition, ie xTechSearch 4 and xTechSearch 5, then you must be able to show the changes that you have made to your technology since the last competition. You will want to show the judges

We are continuously working to provide small businesses with resources to make the right connections within the Army and discuss technology concepts that could impact our current priorities. We encourage all small businesses looking to discuss their technology concepts to check out the resources tab on our website. In the resource section, we have provided