12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Minor
Improve private-sector access to National Labs and return benefits to taxpayers
Printed page 394 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions
“SC should improve private-sector access to the National Labs, through programs like the GAIN voucher program and consistent with national security considerations, while ensuring that the economic benefits of taxpayer-funded technologies flow back to taxpayers through patent-review sharing or a revolving fund.”
What has happened
- Not started
No measure improving private-sector access to the National Laboratories on the model the Quote names was found, and nothing at all on the taxpayer-return limb: no patent-review sharing arrangement and no revolving fund. The GAIN voucher program continues unchanged and the Office of Technology Commercialization's Lab Partnering Service predates the window.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Covered by the negative search run once for all the National Laboratories asks.
Adjacent but not this ask: EO 14363 of 24 November 2025 builds an American Science and Security Platform on laboratory computing resources and provides for private-sector participation through coordinated funding opportunities and prize competitions, and DOE and SBA launched the SBIC-E Initiative on 24 August 2026 (counted at #992). Neither addresses laboratory access terms or the return of economic benefits to taxpayers.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- private-sector access to the National Laboratories
- ID
- 997