Industry-Laboratory Partnerships A Review of the Sandia Science and Technology Park Initiative (1999) / Chapter Skim
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A. White Paper on Sandia National Laboratories and the Sandia Science and Technology Park
A. White Paper on Sandia National Laboratories and the Sandia Science and Technology Park
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, which ensures the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons. Sandia's mission is an evolving one that must be immediately responsive to new and emerging vulnerabilities and threats to the security of the United States.
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Sandia develops effective responses to emerging threats by applying advanced technologies and systems solutions to problems such as terrorism, hard and deeply buried targets, chemical and biological weapons, information warfare, demining and unexploded ordnance neutralization, and demilitarization. Sandia also helps safeguard nuclear materials in other countries and designs effective systems to monitor nuclear weapons activities.
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This task remains especially critical today, as the United States relies on existing weapons to protect itself and other nations, while fully supporting international agreements that ban nuclear testing and forbid the development of new nuclear weapons. As long as the United States has nuclear weapons, they must be kept secure and reliable.
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Some of the policies that have been undertaken include · the Stephenson-Wydler Act that lifted various restrictions and gave federal agencies the authority to participate with the private sector in technology transfer activities; the Bayh-Dole Act that provided specific intellectual property protections for small businesses and nonprofit organizations, primarily universities; the National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act that gave government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories the authority to establish ownership of, protect, and license intellectual property; the 1996 Technology Transfer and Advancement Act, also known as the Morella Bill, that gave industry the right to negotiate with federal agencies and national laboratories for some form of exclusivity (field of use) in jointly developed intellectual property; and · the 1993 DOE Defense Programs Technology Partnership Program that established a pool of funds to set up Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
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This greatly increased memory and speed, combined with new software and physical models, enables Sandia to solve a wide range of problems related to the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and problems across a broader range of national security concerns as well. These problems often involve the coupling of many complex physical effects in three dimensions.
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Relying on a half-century of experience in meeting the daunting tasks of designing, engineering, and dismantling nuclear weapons, and for many years developing systems to clean up and store radioactive waste, the federal government has sought Sandia's assistance in its investigation of crises such as the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City and the 1995 destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Microelectromechanical Machines Microelectromechanical systems are minute devices, some as small as the diameter of a human hair, with features as small as 1/100 the diameter of a hair, that combine mechanical and electrical components in a single system.
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industry include the laminar air flow clean room, which is now an essential requirement in virtually every microelectronics manufacturing facility; vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers, which are poised to revolutionize laser communications from fiber-optic telecommunications transmission to office copying machines and cellular telephones; and advanced lithography research, which has established important new milestones in integrated circuit manufacturing. Advantages of Partnerships Partnering with industry has helped Sandia to advance its skills and technologies in many areas; the examples given above illustrate the importance of such partnerships in enabling Sandia to more effectively and efficiently accomplish its national security missions.
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Similar efforts in other parts of the United States have achieved remarkable success. Examples such as the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, the Silicon Valley Incubator in California, and the Ben Franklin Technology Centers in Pennsylvania underscore the diverse conditions in which the partnership concept has been applied.
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More and more, this means working with partners in industry, academia, and other federal laboratories. The establishment of the Sandia Science and Technology Park is an important step in creating such partnerships.
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