51 U.S.C. § 50116 — Commercial technology transfer program

submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 111-314 to r/title-51-NATIONAL-AND-COMMERCIAL-SPACE-PROGRAMS · 142 words · no verdicts yet

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NASA must run a program that trades technology, products, and intellectual property with private companies. NASA must put at least as much effort into sharing its own technology with businesses as into using business technology itself. NASA must give 45 days' notice before changing how its technology-transfer offices are organized.

(a) In General. NASA's Administrator must run a commercial technology transfer program. Its goal is exchanging services, products, and intellectual property between NASA and private companies. The program must put at least as much weight on "spinning out" — sending NASA technology to private companies — as on using private companies' technology at NASA. The program must benefit NASA, the domestic economy, and researchers, while still protecting national security. (b) Program Structure. If the Administrator wants to change how NASA's technology transfer and commercialization offices are organized — as that structure existed on December 30, 2005 — program participants must get at least 45 days' notice first.

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(a)In General.—

The Administrator shall execute a commercial technology transfer program with the goal of facilitating the exchange of services, products, and intellectual property between the Administration and the private sector. This program shall place at least as much emphasis on encouraging the transfer of Administration technology to the private sector (“spinning out”) as on encouraging use of private sector technology by the Administration. This program shall be maintained in a manner that provides clear benefits for the Administration, the domestic economy, and the research community, while protecting national security.

(b)Program Structure.—

In carrying out the program described in subsection (a), the Administrator shall provide program participants with at least 45 days notice of any proposed changes to the structure of the Administration’s technology transfer and commercialization organizations that is in effect as of December 30, 2005.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3399; Pub. L. 115–10, title VIII, § 829, Mar. 21, 2017, 131 Stat. 66.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

2010Enacted · Pub. L. 111-314 · 124 Stat. 3399
2017Amended · Pub. L. 115-10 · 131 Stat. 66

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 111-314 on 2010-12-18.

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