TechLink

In this free session, you’ll learn how you can qualify for hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal funding that does not have to be matched or repaid, and retain intellectual property rights.

A Montana State University center specializing in transferring U.S. military technology to the private sector played a key role in getting into production a portable and potent disinfectant system that kills the Ebola virus on surfaces.

TechLink helps the Department of Defense to establish licensing and other technology transfer agreements with US industry.

Will Swearingen, TechLink’s executive director, credits the work of Halfpap in helping to broker the deal with Mapp Biopharmaceutical.

Through the program TechLink http://techlinkcenter.org/ , students are given opportunities to develop start-up companies or conduct research with funding from the Defense Department, NASA, and other government buyers.

Our technology summaries highlight the features and benefits of select DoD inventions available for licensing. These are just a few of the many technology summaries.

TechLink is seeking to create a roster of writers and editors to research, write or edit, and deliver to TechLink success stories and/or other technical or scientific stories for Department of Defense technology transfer programs.

TechLink assists the US Department of Defense in licensing its inventions to industry, enabling companies to create new products and services using these
inventions. There is no charge to either DoD labs or companies for these services.

This exercise demonstrated that review of DoD publications is an effective way to identify new inventions.

The study found that direct output (sales) resulting from the 326 TechLink-brokered technology-transfer agreements totaled $239.7 million at the time of the study.