U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Small Business Opportunities:
Obtaining Federal Laboratory know-how and technology
Marketing Opportunities
Technology Transfer
Broad Agency Announcement/Contracts/Grants
Business Transactions/Legal Office
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Office of Technology Transfer
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Patent Licenses
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
Sharing of Federal Technology
Developing the Commercial Market of the Small Business through Federal Laboratory Technology & Know-How
CONTACT: Dr Rita Manak (202) 767-3083
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/doing-business/tech-transfer/
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Contracting Division
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Office of Naval Research
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Broad Agency Announcement
Basic and Applied Research, Engineering Development
Opportunities for Small Business
Simple, accelerated contract/grant awards
Start with a simple white paper stating the scientific problem, general technical approach, and summary budget.
Informal process: After submission of the white paper, contracts will put you in touch with the NRL technical representative,
to develop more specificity
Then: Technical and cost proposal
http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/
http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/baa/index.htm (NRL’s Active BAAs)
Office of Naval Research BAA: http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Contracts-Grants/Funding-Opportunities/Broad-Agency-Announcements.aspx...
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Office of Counsel
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Accelerated approvals for small business proposals
“Work for Others” Agreement: Business/academia buy services of nation’s leading experts
Areas include: Unmanned and self-navigating vessels; deep ocean surveys of methane clathrates; physics-based
predictions of mesoscale ocean/atmospheric processes (e.g., effects upon synchronous/parametric roll of ship; petroleum;
fisheries)
Contact: (228) 688-4826 (Associate Counsel: Armand Beede, Esquire); (228) 688-5759 (Kathleen Chapman, Esquire
(Intellectual Property))
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