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Department of Navy Technology Transfer Program
Dottie Vincent Office of Naval Research 30 July
2007
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What is Technology Transfer?

• Definition
• The intentional communication (sharing) of
  knowledge, expertise, facilities, equipment, and
  other resources for application of military and
  non-military systems. DoD Instruction 5535.8

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T2 Legislation, Policy, and GuidanceA
Congressionally Mandated Program

• Federal Legislation - Title 15 USC 3701- 3715
• Establishes that T2 is a requirement of all
  Federal agencies
• Ensures full use of the Nations Federal
  investment in RD
• Established the Federal Laboratory Consortium for
  T2

• DoD Directive 5535.3/DoD Instruction 5535.8
• Domestic T2 activities are integral elements of
  the DoDs National Security mission
• T2 must have a high-priority role in all DoD
  acquisition programs

• SECNAVINST 5700.16A
• Authorizes ONR as the responsible department for
  DoN T2 policy, guidance and implementation
• Assigns Chief of Naval Research responsibility
  for policy and guidance matters within the DoN T2
  program

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Office of Research and Technology Applications
(ORTA)

• Title 15 USC 3710 Requirement
• Each Federal laboratory shall establish an Office
  of Research and Technology Applications
• Staffing funding levels
• Lab having 200 or more full time equivalent SEs
  shall provide one or more full time equivalent
  positions as staff for its ORTA
• Each Federal Agency which operates or directs one
  or more federal labs shall make available
  sufficient funding to support the T2 function at
  the agency its labs, including support of the
  ORTA
• Individuals filling positions in an ORTA shall be
  included in the overall laboratory/agency
  management development program
• Navy ORTA Responsibility
• Assess technologies within the labs for potential
  commercial applications
• Stimulate initiatives to develop the transfer of
  technology to other organizations
• Link RD resources of the lab with potential
  users
• Provide technical assistance disseminate
  information on federally owned or originated
  products, processes, and services having
  potential application to State local
  governments private industry
• Participate in programs to facilitate the
  transfer of technology for the benefit of the
  region, State, or local jurisdiction
• Negotiate, develop management of Cooperative
  Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) and
  patent license agreements (PLA)
• Provide ONR and the DoN T2 Program Manager copies
  of all CRADAs and PLAs

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Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
(CRADA)

• A legal agreement between a federal laboratory
  and a non-federal partner, i.e., industry,
  academia, State and local government to perform
  cooperative and mutually beneficial RD (Title 15
  USC 3710a)
• Must be mission-oriented
• Must be facilitated by an ORTA
• Federal lab to accept, retain use funds,
  personnel, services property from non-federal
  partner
• Federal lab to provide personnel, services, use
  of property (but not funding)
• Protection of data developed under CRADA from
  disclosure for up
• to 5 years
• Non-federal partner has the option of acquiring
  an exclusive license for a pre-negotiated field
  of use for a subject invention developed under
  the CRADA

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Navy CRADA History
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Patent License Agreements

• Each federal agency has authority to negotiate
  licensing agreements for inventions madeat the
  laboratory
• (Title 15 USC 3710a and Title 35 USC 207)
• It is the federal governments technology
  transfer policy to promote the utilization
  commercialization of inventions that arise from
  agency-supported RD through licenses
• The government may grant nonexclusive, partially
  exclusive, or exclusive licenses
• In granting a license to a government patent, the
  industry partner must satisfy specific conditions
• The government retains an irrevocable
  royalty-free right to practice the invention or
  to have it practiced on its behalf
• The licensing of inventions arising under a CRADA
  must follow CRADA guidelines on licensing

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Navy T2 Pilot Projects

• Graduate School Government Technology
  Commercialization Class
• San Diego State University (SDSU) Government
  Technology Commercialization class currently used
  to facilitate licensing of Navy intellectual
  property from SSC-San Diego and other Government
  Agencies
• Expand existing SDSU class to include other Naval
  laboratories
• Eventually create a national network of similar
  programs at other universities
• Develop process for laboratories to submit
  candidate technologies to ONR T2 pilot committee
  that will select promising technologies for
  commercialization support through this program
• Enhance Navy Licensing Program Through
  Multi-Laboratory Bundling
• Currently, IP at each Navy laboratory is marketed
  and licensed separately with little collaboration
  with other Navy laboratories
• Explore the use of commercial database search
  tools with concept query capabilities to generate
  collections of patents that are related by
  method, application area or technical problem
  that the invention addresses
• The concept query capability would provide ORTAs
  with new avenues of commercialization as they
  partner with other ORTAs to license bundle

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Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device (ROBD)

• Objective
• Develop a portable, economical device that
  provides safe and effective hypoxia (lack of
  oxygen to the brain) training
•  Benefits
• Provides effective hypoxia training without the
  use of an altitude pressure chamber, eliminating
  the risk of barotrauma
• Portable unit costs 25K each versus 1.5M for
  fixed chamber

• Technology
• A standard aviation mask, gas reservoir system,
  and unique software program that adds nitrogen to
  breathing air, in a compact form factor
• ROBD can be integrated into flight simulators,
  allowing pilots to receive hypoxia training in
  realistic scenarios
• Participants
• Developed by Naval Aerospace Medical Research
  Laboratory
• Licensed to Environics, Inc.

• Status
• NAVAIR-PMA-205 has committed 1M to purchase
  units from Environics for use in all eight of the
  Naval Survival Training Institutes Aviation
  Training Centers
• Eclipse Aviation, manufacturers of very light
  jets, has purchased an ROBD system and is
  including hypoxia training in the purchase price
  of its jets
• Alaskan Airlines recently put 32 pilots and
  flight attendants through a successful hypoxia
  training program using ROBD
• Received 2007 FLC Award for Excellence in
  Technology Transfer

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Digital Image Enhancement

• Objective
• Transfer, commercialize, and transition a digital
  enhancement technology that allows small objects
  to be found in large complex areas, from mines
  underwater to microcalcifications in breast
  tissue
• Benefits
• Enables sailors to detect underwater mines
• Facilitates earlier detection of breast cancer

• Technology
• Digital Image Enhancement uses wavelets and
  mathematical functions for multi-resolution
  analysis, feature enhancement, and noise
  reduction. The use of wavelet mathematics makes
  this method more robust than previous enhancement
  techniques and allows foreign objects to be more
  readily identified.
• Participants
• Developed by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center
  Division Newport
• Exclusively licensed to Advanced Image
  Enhancement, Inc.

• Status
• AIE recently completed a positive clinical study,
  and will be seeking regulatory approval for its
  digital mammography image enhancement product.
  The company is currently in serious negotiations
  with manufacturers of digital radiology
  equipment. Royalties are expected to the Navy in
  2007.

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Informational Links

• Office of Naval Research
• http//www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/3T/transition
• DoD Office of Technology Transition
• http//www.dtic.mil/techtransit/
• Federal Laboratory Consortium
• http//www.federallabs.org/
• Dottie Vincent
• ONR T2 Program Office
• 703-696-4792 (voice)
• 703-696-4884 (fax)
• Email dorothy.vincent_at_navy.mil

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T2 Federal Legislation

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Federal T2 Legislation Highlights

• A Congressionally Mandated Program
• StevensonWydler Technology Innovation Act of
  1980
• Bayh-Dole Act of 1980
• Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986
• Executive Order 12591 (1987)
• National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act
  of 1989
• National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act
  of 1995
• Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000

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Treatment of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Through
Biological Mechanisms

• Objective
• Prevent and treat hearing loss resulting from
  artillery, aircraft, and other damaging noises as
  well as chemical exposure.
•  Benefits
• Increases levels of protective compounds and
  reduces levels of destructive compounds in the
  cochlea
• Promises aid for more than 30 million Americans
  who have suffered or are at risk for hearing loss

• Technology
• An orally administered antioxidant pharmaceutical
  
• product that will prevent, reduce, and, in some
  cases, reverse acute noise-induced hearing loss.
  Uses N-acetylcysteine (NAC), which has already
  been approved for human consumption.
• Participants
• Developed by the Naval Medical Center-San Diego
• Licensed exclusively to American BioHealth Group
  (ABG) for nationwide commercialization

• Status
• A commercially available product, The Hearing
  Pill?, is available without prescription from
  ABG, to individuals seeking help to prevent and
  treat acute hearing loss.
• In support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, four cases
  of The Hearing Pill? were sent to Iraq for troops
  experiencing blast injury. Troops are
  experiencing positive improvements.
• Received 2006 FLC Award for Excellence in
  Technology Transfer and 2005 Silver Award from
  Worlds Best Technologies