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Military Technology Transfer, and fostering
Public Private Collaborations
Gary Wang
SPAWAR Chief Technology Officer
Dir. Science Technology and Engineering, SSC Pacific
7 Oct 2009
Distribution Statement
Agenda
▼ CTO Introduction
▼ History - Conflict driven innovation
▼ American Innovation Winner (video)
▼ Move to Commercialization and Legislation
▼ Transfer methods, tools and examples
▼ Tech Transfer @ SSC Pacific
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Intellectual Property stats
Lab to Market process
Successes
Communication methods
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CTO / Director of S&T
▼ Champions innovation, builds value, increases intellectual capital
▼ Contributes to strategic guidance by identifying the role specific technologies will play
in the future growth of the organization
▼ Forges robust external partnerships with S&T communities in industry,
academia, and government
▼ Transitions technology into Naval capabilities rapidly, affordably and efficiently
Leveraging technology is the key to both force modernization and transformation to
preserve the decisive U.S. advantage across the range of military operations.
Naval Transformation Roadmap
7/20/2015
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Conflict Driven Innovation
▼ Modern material human existence developed out of advances in
military technology.
 Aviation - Many of the early developers of heavier-than-air flight looked to
militaries for uses and funding for their inventions before the plans left the
drawing board. The airplanes used for barnstorming and the earliest regular
airmail service were World War I military surplus planes.
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Conflict Driven Innovation
▼ Microwave - Magnetrons, were used to generate the microwave radio signals that
are the core mechanism of RADAR. A chocolate bar in Percy Spencer’s pocket
melted while standing in front of an operating magnetron. He then tested popcorn
in front of the magnetron (surely turning up the power and standing out of the
beam), and it quickly popped all over the room
The Radarange weighed 340 kg. It was
water-cooled and consumed 3000 watts,
about three times as much as modern
microwave ovens. The costing was about
$5000 each.
VIDEO
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Move to Commercialization
▼ While Government research is a vital source of innovation, how can
government agencies intensify the use of that innovation to become
an active partner in economic development?
▼ The culture of government research enables innovation, but does
not motivate technology commercialization.
▼ Since the 1970s there has been a strong drive for government
agencies to participate more aggressively in technology transfer.
Gov’t regulations encouraged entrepreneurial start-ups to make use
of their knowledge base.
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Technology Transfer (T2) Legislation
▼ Congressionally enacted technology transfer mechanisms and incentives.
▼ The bidirectional sharing between federal laboratories and private industry
includes not only technologies, but personnel, facilities, methods, expertise, and
technical information in general.
 Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980 - transfer technology to nonfederal parties and
provided outside organizations
 The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, - established more boundaries regarding patents
and licenses for federally funded research and development
− “Innovation’s Golden Goose,” The Economist
 The Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 , all federal laboratory scientists
and engineers are required to consider technology transfer
Technology Transfer –refers specifically to transfers occurring between
federal labs and any nonfederal organization, including private industry,
academia and state and local governments.
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Methods and Tools for Partnerships
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Education partnership Act Agreements
Historic Property and Enhanced User Leases
Partnership Intermediary Agreements
Facilities Use Agreements
 Title 10 U.S.C. §2539B, Sale of testing services outside the DoD
▼ MilCon Swap
▼ Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
 Title 15 U.S.C. § 3710, Enter cooperative agreements outside the DoD
▼ Work for others
 Title 10 U.S.C. §2563, Sale of Articles & services outside the DoD
▼ Licensing
 Title 35 U.S.C. §209, Licensing of Articles & services outside the DoD
Federal T2 Mechanisms
http://www.federallabs.org/flc/education/t2mech/results
Strategic Partners, Grow Capabilities, Reduce Cost
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Public Private Ventures (PPV) –
Partnership Examples
▼ Lakehurst Hanger 1 leased to Community College in return for
Repairs.
▼ Create a business incubator on the post to bring companies
interested in technology onto the base for technology exchange –
Picatinny Arsenal.
− www.insitech.org
▼ Conversion of a power plant, and creation of an income stream from
a data center, power plant and laboratories – Watervliet
▼ PPV – CNIC Navy Housing Development
− www.housing.navy.mil
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Air Force Institutes
▼ Purpose
 Environment that brings together individuals from government, industry, and
academia to form teams that rapidly and innovatively solve difficult problems of
critical interest to the Air Force and Department of Defense
▼ Key Elements
 Short term projects (~1 year max)
 Collocated project work areas for government, industry, and academia
 Projects have DoD and non-DoD applications
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Government Intellectual Property
TM
Patent Scorecard
Intellectual Property Today; Tammy D’Amato
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Commercialization Funding –
Licensing
3%
4%
VC?
5%
35%
Friends/ Family/Fools?
24%
Corporate?
Federal Grants?
29%
Research Commercialization Funding
Dr. Lew Branscomb, Harvard
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Licensing Results
5%
3%
4%
34%
25%
corporate venture
Federal
angel investors
venture capital
State government
university's own funds
29%
Research Commercialization Funding
Dr. Lew Branscomb, Harvard
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▼ Activities
 Licensing
 CRADA
 Marketing
▼ T2 Mission
▼ Intellectual Property
▼ Success Stories
Technology Transfer –refers specifically to transfers occurring between
federal labs and any nonfederal organization, including private industry,
academia and state and local governments.
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Intellectual Property
SSC Pacific vs. San Diego Based Companies
SSC Pacific ranked 6th compared to
San Diego based corporate patent recipients in 2008
Rank Company
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Qualcomm (Wireless)
Callaway Golf (Sporting Goods)
SAIC (IT, Contractor, R&D)
Kyocera Wireless (Wireless)
Cymer (Laser, Semiconductors)
SSC Pacific (US Government)
AMCC (Semiconductors)
Isis Pharmaceuticals (Biotech)
Fallbrook Technologies (Automotive)
Gen-Probe (Biotech)
2008 2007
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Source: http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/01/26/qualcomm-leads-san-diego-patent-filings-in-our-top-25-list/
SSC Pacific data added. (Does not include data from local Universities)
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What is T2
Lab to Market
Example: QwikLite Technology
LAB
MARKET
Commercialize:
T2 Office
Productize
Patent
▼ New Products (Features)
▼ New Services
▼ New Businesses
Patent
Office
Invent
Research
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SSC Pacific Licensee Distribution
Applied Microsystems, Ltd.
Sydney, British Columbia, Canada
STI Technologies,
Madison, WI
Metron, Inc.
Reston, VA
Radiant Images, Inc.
Bedford, MA
Gemcity
Engineering Co,
Dayton, OH
Lissom, Inc.
Bayville, NJ
Intesys, LLC.
Carlsbad, CA
Assure Controls, Inc.
Carlsbad, CA
GeneFluidics, Inc.
Monterey Park, CA
Lumedyne
Technologies, Inc.
San Diego, CA
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SSC Development,
New York, NY
Elemental Wireless, LLC.
Wilmington, DE
Pinon Technologies, Inc.
Round Rock, TX
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Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
An agreement between SSC Pacific and a commercial partner
under which Collaborative R&D can be performed
 Invest industry funds/$ into the lab
 Further develop and move early stage technologies to the
commercial/DoD space
 Industry partnerships
 Leads to additional IP and licensing deals in many cases
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SSC Pacific Technologies in the News
Licensing
QwikLite Technology “Assure
Bioassay Controls” Wins Gold
Trophy at ‘World’s Best
Technologies’ Showcase
San Diego Union-Tribune
Page 1: Business Section
7/31/20099
Brad Chisum, CEO Lumedyne
Technologies, Inc. (formerly
Omega Sensors, Inc.) rings the
opening bell on NASDAQ,
August 2007
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Technology Transfer Activities: Technology Broker”
Technology Transfer Facebook
Marketing
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Vehicles for accessing Govt. Developed Technology &
Commercialization Support
▼ Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)
 www.federallabs.org/
 Federal T2 Mechanisms :
http://www.federallabs.org/flc/education/t2m
ech/results
▼ DoD TechMatch:
 www.dodtechmatch.com
▼ TechLink (DoD and NASA Technologies)
 www.techlinkcenter.org
▼ Center for Commercialization of Advanced
Technology
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www.ccatsocal.org
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Community Partner in Innovation
▼ Technology transfer of Federal research and development to industry,
state and local governments, and academic institutions
 Leaning Forward to Create and Champion a culture of Innovation
for San Diego
 Navy partnering and collaborating with industry, academia and
local and state government is an important ingredient for our
success
 Working together to preserve and grow our S&T workforce to
solve Navy problems and meet future requirements
Unleashing entrepreneurial spirit
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BACKUP
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CCAT Government
Technology Spin Out Process
Phase I – Transition of Technology to Commercial Company
Market Validation
Study
Government
Technology
Search
Identification
of Potential
License
Partner(s)
Key Markets ID
Key Licenses ID
for Each Market
Market Analysis
Performed with
Potential Licensee
CRADA &
License
Agreement
Phase II – Transition of Technology to Commercial Market Place
Launch Support
Mentoring Support
Product Development
Market Studies/
Springboards
Customized Support
plan created
Standard CCAT Processes
DoD
Market
Commercial
Market
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