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3. Support coordination between the industrial, academic, and Government 

 R&D (research and development) activities of the United States by cooperating 

 in the sharing of plans for future research efforts and the sharing of facilities as 

 appropriate. 



4. Support cooperative efforts to stimulate industrial innovation, especially 

 in small businesses. 



5. Support and encourage the exchange of scientific and technical person- 

 nel among academic, industry, and the DOD laboratories. 



6. Support the domestic technology transfer process as an integral part of 

 the R&D effort and incorporate domestic technology transfer objectives into the 

 mission of each appropriate R&D activity. 



7. Encourage domestic technology transfer in the work place through its 

 recognition in position descriptions, in promotion policies, in monetary awards, 

 and in performance evaluations for appropriate scientific and engineering per- 

 sonnel. 



8. Ensure that R&D activities have at least one full-time equivalent position 

 responsible for performing the functions of an Office of Research and Technol- 

 ogy Applications (ORTA) at any activity having over 200 full-time equivalent 

 professional scientific, engineering and related technical personnel. A full-time 

 position for any activity with less that 200 professional scientific and engineer- 

 ing personnel is optional. 



9. Ensure that domestic technology transfer functions do not compete sub- 

 stantially with similar services available in the private sector. 



10. Ensure that the Domestic Technology Transfer Program does not conflict 

 with export control regulations, policies governing militarily critical technolo- 

 gy, policy requirements of recouping DOD nonrecurring costs, or any of the 

 responsibilities and procedures for technology transfer control in DOD Direc- 

 tives, Instrjctions, and publications .... 



1 1 . Identify and encourage persons to act as conduits between and among 

 Federal laboratories, universities, and the private sector for the transfer of tech- 

 nology developed from federally funded R&D efforts. 



12. Ensure that State and local governments, universities and the pnvate 

 sector are provided with information on the technology, expertise, and facilities 

 available in Federal laboratories. 



Source; Department of Defense (1988). 



To ensure that these 12 policies are carried out and to comply with Public 

 Law 96-480, DOD 3200.12-R-4 required that 0.5 percent of the total research and 

 development (R&D) budget for each DOD budget component be used to promote 

 domestic technology transfer (DOD, 1988). DOD 3200.I2-R-4 also stated that a 

 waiver could be obtained from Congress at the time of budget submission if 

 alternative methods of conducting technology transfer were provided. Subse- 

 quent changes to this provision were affected by enactment of Public Law 101- 

 1 89, which substituted language referring to any specific level of funding ex- 

 pressed as a percentage of the R&D budget with "each Federal agency which 



