IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ACT HEARING 20-048 BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JUNE 1, 1989 [No. 25] Printed for the use of the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1989 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office 71 326ST COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY ROBERT A. ROE, New Jersey, Chairman GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California RALPH M. HALL, Texas ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island RON PACKARD, California HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR., Virginia LAMAR SMITH, Texas GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California *Ranking Republican Member. JACK BUECHNER, Missouri CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut DANA ROHRABACHER, California STEVEN H. SCHIFF, New Mexico TOM CAMPBELL, California HAROLD P. HANSON, Executive Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DOUG WALGREN, Pennsylvania, Chairman SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR., Virginia (II) CONTENTS John M. Ols, Director of Resources, Community and Economic Develop- ment Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; accompanied by Lowell Mininger, Assistant Director; Sumi Arima, Evaluator-in-Charge; and Cynthia Walford, Project Manager Dr. Loren Schmid, Chairman, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Tech- nology Transfer and Program Manager, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington; Dr. L. H. Princen, Director, Northern Regional Research Center, USDA/ARS, Peoria, Illinois; Richard Stern, Technolo- gy Transfer/ Small Business Manager, Electronics Technology & De- vices Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey; Dr. J. Grant Brewen, President, Biotechnology R&D Corporation, Peoria, Illinois; and Dr. Reid Adler, Director, Office of Invention Development, NIH, Bethesda, Dr. George P. Millburn, Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engi- neering (Research and Advanced Technology), U.S. Department of De- fense; George T. Singley, III, Director, Research and Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition); Richard L. Rumpf, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Engineering and Systems); and Brigadier General John Douglass, Director of Science and Technology, Assistant Secretary of Congresswoman Schneider's Questions for Department of Defense Panel and Chairman Walgren's Additional Questions for Department of Defense Panel Report entitled Technology Transfer: A Profile of Agency Activities in USDA... Report of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer enti- tled: Putting Technology to Work, March 1988... Report to the Congress and the Federal Agencies entitled: Activities of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, April 25, 1988... The Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986: The First Two Years, A Report to the President and the Congress by the Secretary of Commerce, June 1989 Additional questions for Brigadier General John Douglass, Air Force, and Page |