Federal Lab Services

The Federal Technology Center is a partnership intermediary for federal laboratories. One of our major Federal customers is the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) at McClellan. We help the DMEA, and other sponsoring federal laboratories, to successfully work with small businesses and academia in cooperative activities.

Services for federal laboratories:
We provide the following value added services for sponsoring federal laboratories:

Office of Research and Technology Application (ORTA) Support- We can help you develop beneficial partnerships and agreements. We are versed in all the authorized technology transfer mechanisms including CRADAs, Educational Partnerships, Commercial Test Agreements, etc. We'll do the leg work for you!

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Support - We'll help you manage your SBIR contracts.

Identify potential small business vendors - We can help you find small businesses that can fulfill your research and supplier needs.

Optimize small business contracting - We'll work with your procurement officials to increase the pool of potential small business suppliers.

We help you fulfill your congressionally mandated technology transfer and small business goals.

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5 Great Reasons Federal Labs Should Call The FTC

1. Authorized
by public law
The Federal Technology Center (The FTC) is recognized by the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), and is incorporated as a not-for-profit public benefit corporation to act as a Partnership Intermediary (PI) as outlined in 15 U.S.C. 3715.

2. Beneficial Partnerships
We can connect you to other government organizations and private businesses.

3. Expert Staff
We can provide you experts to help meet your needs when you have manpower constraints.

4. Small Business Needs
We have the skills and experience to find and train small businesses to support your needs.

5. Special projects
We provide diverse services as needed