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4. Barriers to Technology Transfer
Pages 31-34

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... For example, the coating removal and resealing of wing fuel tanks on KC-135 tanker aircraft that have been in service since the 1 950s is unprecedented in either military or commercial aviation. This additional maintenance was necessitated by delamination of the topcoat inside the fuel tanks that resulted in clogged fuel filters.4 The pressure from environmental regulations may provide additional incentive to drive the use of new technologies for maintaining existing weapons and equipment in service for long periods of time.
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... Both the transferring and receiving organizations must be well prepared for the technology implementation process, which is guaranteed to consume additional time and funds in the short term. When a technology is owned by a supplier with few employees to aid in implementation, or a depot is unable to allocate adequate personnel to the project, the budgets, time lines, goals, and objectives must reflect this shortcoming.6 Identification of champions on both sides of technology transfer is especially critical when validating and accepting a new process or material for defense applications, for which the technical complexity, environmental demands, and system considerations are generally high when compared to many commercial activities.
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... Families of technologies that become integral to the workings of societies tend to remain dominant for many decades.7 The technologies proposed for replacement by the NDCEE's efforts, such as chemical paint stripping and cadmium plating, have become integral to the functioning and maintenance of military and similar commercial equipment. In essence, the issues determining success in technology transfer can be categorized as money, people, and logistics.
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