12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Minor
Transfer DOE technologies swiftly to American private-sector interests
Printed page 393 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions
“Ensure that successful advances, with a focus on new natural resource development technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and space, are transferred swiftly to American interests in the private sector.”
What has happened
- Partially done
DOE and the Small Business Administration launched the SBIC-E Initiative to draw private capital into American energy innovation and small businesses, the first new transfer mechanism of the window. Partial rather than done: the Quote's named focus areas — natural resource development technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and space — are not the stated targeting of any of these programs.
- Partially done
DOE's realignment renamed the Office of Technology Transitions the Office of Technology Commercialization and moved it under the Under Secretary for Science, restating its mission as moving innovation from DOE's National Laboratory complex and the private sector into the marketplace to drive economic growth and strengthen energy security. The office runs SBIR/STTR, the Technology Commercialization Fund, Energy I-Corps and the Lab Partnering Service.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
#993 asks the separate question of OTT oversight of the laboratories’ own technology transfer offices and stays not started.
EO 14363, Launching the Genesis Mission (24 November 2025), mobilizes the National Laboratories for artificial intelligence and provides for private-sector participation; it is adjacent to this ask rather than an instrument of it, so it is noted here and not cited as Evidence.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- DOE and National Lab technology transfer
- ID
- 992