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ARMY T2 AGREEMENTS

The Army Technology Transfer Program promotes collaboration with industry and academia to enhance Army’s research, development, and engineering capabilities and opens the door for commercial partnerships to help transition technologies created in Army laboratories and technical centers. Benefits of these collaborations to Army partners include accelerating technology maturation, access to unique Army laboratory facilities and equipment, IP protection for patenting, shared resources and capabilities to accelerate technology development and defray R&D costs, and licensee profits and sales of new products and services, including both commercial and U.S. military sales.

T2 uses a variety of agreement mechanisms for partnering:

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)

Used for an Army laboratory to perform collaborative R&D with academic, industrial, not for profit, and nonfederal government parties. The Army laboratory can provide materials, equipment, access to facilities, expertise, but not money to the CRADA partner (the CRADA partner can provide the same plus funding to an Army laboratory). CRADA partners receive a time-limited option to take an exclusive license to Government rights in CRADA-subject inventions within the field of the CRADA.

Patent License Agreement (PLA)

Allows Army-owned patents and other intellectual property to be licensed to an industrial partner(s) to help develop, manufacture, and/or commercialize military or dual-use (military/civilian) technology. Royalties are shared by the inventors and the laboratory.

Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA)

Allows Army laboratories to partner with educational institutions and academic researchers. Loan or allow students and faculty the use of laboratory equipment and facilities, and/or cultivate educational and research opportunities.

Commercial Test Agreement (CTA)

Used for Army laboratories to test materials, equipment, models, computer software, and other technologies on behalf of an outside party. Partner owns the technical data and any intellectual property that may arise from the testing.

Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA)

Used for promoting cooperative activities between an Army laboratory and a state or local government (or a nonprofit operating on behalf of a state or local government). It facilitates the transfer of technology for the benefit or economic development of a state or local government, small business, or educational institutions; and supports the mission of the Army laboratory.

Material Transfer Agreement (MTA)

Allows material to be provided by one party to the other for experimental testing and analysis, and no additional collaboration occurs.