12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Minor
Increase OTT oversight of technology transfer offices at each National Lab
Printed page 393 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions
“Increase oversight and coordination. OTT needs to be vigilant in overseeing and coordinating OTT offices associated with each National Lab. For security and economic espionage reasons, the work funded by the American people needs to be protected, and when commercialized, it needs to go to American businesses.”
What has happened
- Not started
No increase in the Office of Technology Commercialization's oversight or coordination of the technology transfer offices at each National Laboratory was found: no directive, order, policy or reorganization. The office's own policy page describes identifying issues and developing policy, which is its standing role, and its 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. The Quote’s stated purpose — protecting taxpayer-funded work from economic espionage and steering commercialization to American businesses — has no matching instrument in the Federal Register records or among the bills we keep and search.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- Office of Technology Transitions (OTT)
- ID
- 993