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Research Development Agreement (CRDA)
The CRDA allows the FAA to share facilities,
equipment, services, intellectual property, personnel resources
and other cooperation with private industry, academia, or
state/local government agencies. It is implemented to develop
an idea, prototype, process, or product for direct application
to the civil aviation community and/or indirect application
for commercial exploitation.
To help FAA technical personnel to prepare CRDAs,
the Technology Transfer Program Office of the Technical Center
Office of Knowledge Management, (ACK-1) provides the CRDA Handbook
and it's associated CRDA Generator software program.
CRDA Handbook
The CRDA Handbook, designed for use by FAA technical,
scientific, and engineering personnel, is the basic reference
book for all FAA personnel who participate in cooperative R&D
activities. It provides an overview of technology transfer
laws which govern the process, defines and describes the CRDA
vehicle, and addresses such topics as how CRDAs are developed,
the CRDA process, and how to write a CRDA.
The Handbook also provides a complete sample
CRDA for a typical industry-FAA cooperative research project.
A CRDA Overview document is available for
our cooperating partners. According to the Federal Technology
Transfer Act cooperating partners may be: State and Local
governments, industrial organizations; public and private
foundations, non-profit organizations (including universities)
or other persons (including licensees of inventions owned
by the Federal agency).
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