Federal technology

U.S. Department of Energy. Non-Chemical Technologies for Scale and Hardness Control. Federal Technology Alert, http //www.pnl.gov/fta/ll non.htm, 1999. 

The Department of Commerce has active programs in all of these policy areas. Among other areas, the Federal Government is playing an important role in the funding of research and the transfer of federal technology. 

State-Federal Technology Partnership Task Force, Recommendations of Final Report (Washington, D.C. NSTC, 1995). 

Some successful transfers have taken place, and new approaches to technology transfer and commercialization are being investigated. Our experiences in this area have led to a number of conclusions about the necessary steps to ensure successful treuisfer of Federal Technologies to the private sector (7,8,9). 

Miller, C.F., "Some Approaches to Transferring Federal Technologies to State and Local Governments The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Experience," UCRL-79558, June 2, 1978. 

These initiatives proved insufficient to bring about the desired amount of formal interaction between government and industrial scientists. The Federal Technology Transfer (FIT) Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-502) followed with financial and professional incentives to Federal scientists to actively pursue the commercialization of their inventions. The act also requires Federal agencies to share at least 15 percent of royalties from any licensed invention with the inventing scientists, and it directs agencies to establish cash awards with other personnel involved in productive Federal technology transfer activities. 

I Legislative History of Federal Technology Transfer Activities... 

These actions proved insufficient to bring about the intended level of formal interaction between government and industrial scientists (456), so Congress passed the Federal Technology Transfer (FIT) Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-502). 

Chen, P S., Testimony on Implementation of the Federal Technology Transfer Act Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Tfechnol-ogy, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, May 3, 1990. 

Gates, S., Associate Director for the Center of Utilization of Federal Technology, National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA, personal communication, April 12, 1991. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, NIH/ADAMHA Technology Transfer The Federal Technology Transfer Act and Collaboration With Industry, NIH/ ADAMHA training manual, sponsored by the NIH/ADAMHA Patent Policy Board and Office of Invention Development, November 1989. 

Federal Technology Alerts, Non-chemical technologies for scale and hardness control. Produced for U.S. DOE by Battelle Columbus Operations, January 1998, http //www. space-age.com/magwater/fta/fta nonchem.pdf, accessed on October 12, 2014. 

US Department of Energy, Two-Wheel Desiccant Dehumidification System, Federal Technology Alerts. 

Thanks to LAERG (Laboratory of Ergonomics) of the Federal Technological University of Parana, for the kindness of borrowing the equipment (dosimeter) for carrying out the research. 

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