Re: CRADA?

Yes.  The Naval Oceanographic Office (where I work) and OSSI -
http://www.oss-institute.org/.

Jan

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:42, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
> There is actually an example of CRADA used in an open source context
> with the US Navy if I am not mistaken.
> 
> Joseph
> -- 
> Joseph Dal Molin <[email protected]>
> e-cology corporation
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:37, Jan C. Depner wrote:
> > Govspeak for Cooperative Research And Development Agreement.  This is an
> > agreement between the government and a private company to take software
> > (or something else of value - may or may not be patented), share it with
> > the private company for a specific number of years, the government gets
> > software that fits their needs and a cut on the price, and the company
> > gets a jump on the competition.
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:34, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > OSSI (http://oss-institute.org) recently did a CRADA which 
> > > > allowed us to 
> > > > go into a government entity and extract technology to open to the 
> > > > public. We received funding from commercial entities.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I am unfamiliar with the Term CRADA?  Are you talking about something like an Access to Information request?
> 
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