Marshall Space Flight Center often uses technology briefings to select partners for technology transfer programs. This formal procedure is provided to establish a fair and equitable selection process and to improve the odds that the best qualified company is selected.
The Technology Briefing Process
- MSFC identifies
candidate companies.
- MSFC hosts a technology
briefing for companies' technical and/or management representatives.
Briefings provide information on the technology and may include an overview
of the patent/copyright licensing process.
- Companies prepare
and submit a commercialization plan and, depending
on the technology, a license application.
- MSFC reviews the
submitted commercialization plans and selects the best according to
established evaluation criteria.
- Each selected
company negotiates the Space Act Agreement and/or patent or copyright
license agreement with MSFC.
- NASA's general counsel and/or MSFC's director (or designee) and the company's chief executive officer sign the agreement, formally establishing the project/partnership between MSFC and the company.