RE: CRADA?

One of the CRADAs I'm involved with is actually with a Canadian Company
- IVS.

Jan


On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:47, [email protected] 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.
> 
> 
> OK sounds like a cross between what our government calls Tech Transfer, and Some of the programs to assist business development.  
> 
> My Wife worked for CRC, (http://www.crc.ca/)  and one of her products was licensed to Skywave Electronics, (not the current company by that name) who in turn apparently sold the US navy a "whole lot" of TMS-320 DSP based Squelch modules.  The private firm was expected to bring the product from lab prototype to commercial MILSPEC status.  With the Canadian government receiving royalties.
> 
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