Technology Transfer

The Technology Transfer Office connects SRNS with academic, government, and industry partners to ensure innovative technologies and solutions mature and ensures commercial rights to SRNS-developed technologies are licensed to the private sector.

Licensing Opportunities

In the course of its work for the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), SRNS develops useful new technologies that have commercial applications. Through licensing, SRNS transfers commercial rights for these technologies to the private sector. The technology transfer process can short-circuit the lengthy and costly product development cycle and provide the licensee with a significant competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA)

A CRADA is a collaborative research and development project between SRNS, and industrial or other non-federal partners designed to contribute to the goals of each participant.  Partners may be individual companies, a consortium, state or local governments, universities, or non-profit organizations.  Each partner contributes to the research effort through use of personnel, facilities, equipment and other in-kind resources.  Non-federal participants may also provide funds, but DOE funds may not go to the non-federal entity.  Some of the most significant benefits provided through a CRADA with SRNS are:

  • It allows access to equipment, facilities and expertise at SRNS.
  • It allows partners to effectively and equitably share benefits and resources.
  • It provides protection for CRADA-generated information.
  • It allows the rights to inventions and other intellectual property to be negotiated between the partners.
  • It allows the option for the life of the CRADA to negotiate a limited exclusive license in a pre-negotiated field of use to a Subject Invention created by SRNS.

Strategic Partnership Projects (SPP) – formerly Work for Others program

Non-Federal SPP Agreements permit DOE laboratories and facilities to conduct work for businesses and other non-federal entities on a reimbursable basis. A privately funded SPP Agreement typically allows the non-Federal Sponsor to own any inventions made by the facility under the SPP Agreement (i.e. Subject Inventions) and to mark as proprietary and obtain ownership of data that is generated under the SPP Agreement, subject to certain terms and conditions.

For more information, please contact the Technology Transfer Office at TTO@srs.gov