Federal Aviation Administration
Technology Transfer Program Office
 Cooperative Research Development Agreement.
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 provides the CRDA Handbook and it's associated CRDA Generator software program. 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).
Small Business Innovative Research
The SBIR Program seeks to encourage the initiative of the private sector and to use small businesses as effectively as possible in meeting Federal research and development objectives.
To comply with statutory obligations of the Act, DOT has established a U.S. DOT SBIR Program, which conforms to guidelines and regulations provided by the Small Business Administration. Annually, small businesses are solicited to submit innovative research proposals that address high priority requirements of the Department and have potential for commercialization.
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