10 U.S.C. § 4832 (ARMED FORCES)
§ 4832. Encouragement of technology transfer
(a) Encouragement of Transfer Required.—
The Secretary of Defense shall encourage, to the extent consistent with national security objectives, the transfer of technology between laboratories and research centers of the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies, State and local governments, colleges and universities, and private persons in cases that are likely to result in accomplishing the objectives set forth in section 4811(a) of this title.
(b) Examination and Implementation of Methods To Encourage Transfer.—
The Secretary shall examine and implement methods, in addition to the encouragement referred to in subsection (a) and the program described in subsection (c), that are consistent with national security objectives and will enable Department of Defense personnel to promote technology transfer.
(c) Program To Encourage Diversification of Defense Laboratories.—
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall establish and implement a program to be known as the Federal Defense Laboratory Diversification Program (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the “Program”). The purpose of the Program shall be to encourage greater cooperation in research and production activities carried out by defense laboratories and by private industry of the United States in order to enhance and improve the products of such research and production activities.
(2) Under the Program, the defense laboratories, in coordination with the Office of Technology Transfer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, shall carry out cooperative activities with private industry in order to promote (by the use or exchange of patents, licenses, cooperative research and development agreements and other cooperative agreements, and the use of symposia, meetings, and other similar mechanisms) the transfer of defense or dual-use technologies from the defense laboratories to private industry, and the development and application of such technologies by the defense laboratories and private industry, for the purpose of the commercial utilization of such technologies by private industry.
(3) The Secretary of Defense shall develop and annually update a plan for each defense laboratory that participates in the Program under which plan the laboratory shall carry out cooperative activities with private industry to promote the transfers described in subsection (b).
(4) In this subsection, the term “defense laboratory” means any laboratory owned or operated by the Department of Defense that carries out research in fiscal year 1993 in an amount in excess of $50,000,000.
(Added Pub. L. 102–484, div. D, title XLII, § 4224(a), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2682, § 2514; amended Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title VIII, § 829(f), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2614; renumbered § 4832 and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1868(b), (c)(2), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4282, 4283.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Prior Provisions
text: A prior section 4832, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 272, authorized Secretary of the Army to prescribe regulations for the accounting for Army property, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title III, §375(c)(1)(A), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 83.
Provisions similar to those in subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section were contained in section 2363 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–484, §§ 4224(c), 4271(a)(2).
heading: Amendments
text: 2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1868(b), renumbered section 2514 of this title as this section.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283, § 1868(c)(2), substituted “section 4811(a)” for “section 2501(a)”.
1996—Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 104–201 struck out par. (5) which read as follows: “The Secretary shall coordinate the Program with the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base Council.”
heading: Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
heading: Effective Date of 2021 Amendment
text: Amendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.