National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), announces the opportunity for potential collaborators to enter into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop a system or systems to automate sampling method development and analysis for airborne contaminants. It is anticipated that all inventions which may arise from this CRADA will be jointly owned. The collaborator(s) with whom the CRADA is made will have an option to negotiate an exclusive or non-exclusive royalty-bearing license. The CRADA will be executed for a 2-year period with the possibility of renewal for another 2-year period. Because CRADAs are designed to facilitate the development of scientific and technological knowledge into useful, marketable products, a great deal of freedom is given to Federal agencies in implementing collaborative research. The CDC may accept staff, facilities, equipment, supplies, and money from the other participants in a CRADA; CDC may provide staff, facilities, equipment, and supplies to the project. There is a single restriction in this exchange: CDC MAY NOT PROVIDE FUNDS to the other participants i