42 U.S.C. § 12405: Technology transfer program

Summary

The Secretary must run a program that moves key hydrogen technologies from aerospace and other research into the private sector so they can be used sooner. The program will get advice from the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel and aims to get private companies involved in testing near‑commercial uses through cooperative research, joint ventures, or similar partnerships. To do this, the Secretary must make an inventory and assess hydrogen technologies and their business readiness for areas like aerospace, transportation, utilities, petrochemical and other industries. The Secretary must also set up an information‑sharing effort with NASA, the Department of Energy, and industry to share aerospace experience, research progress, commercial know‑how, and industry needs. That effort can use workshops, reports, conferences, and a public database, and must encourage sharing of nonproprietary information among industry, universities, and government.

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(a)Program

The Secretary shall conduct a program designed to accelerate wider application of hydrogen production, storage, utilization, and other technologies available in near term as a result of aerospace experience as well as other research progress by transferring critical technologies to the private sector. The Secretary shall direct the program with the advice and assistance of the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel established under section 12407 of this title. The objective in seeking this advice is to increase participation of private industry in the demonstration of near commercial applications through cooperative research and development arrangements, joint ventures or other appropriate arrangements involving the private sector.

(b)Information

The Secretary, in carrying out the program authorized by subsection (a), shall—

(1)undertake an inventory and assessment of hydrogen technologies and their commercial capability to economically produce, store, or utilize hydrogen in aerospace, transportation, electric utilities, petrochemical, chemical, merchant hydrogen, and other industrial sectors; and

(2)develop a National Aeronautics Space Administration, Department of Energy, and industry information exchange program to improve technology transfer for—

(A)application of aerospace experience by industry;

(B)application of research progress by industry and aerospace;

(C)application of commercial capability of industry by aerospace; and

(D)expression of industrial needs to research organizations.

The information exchange program may consist of workshops, publications, conferences, and a data base for the use by the public and private sectors. The Secretary shall also foster the exchange of generic, nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant to this chapter, among industry, academia, and the Federal Government, to help the United States economy attain the economic benefits of this information and technology.

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1996—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–271 inserted at end “The Secretary shall also foster the exchange of generic, nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant to this chapter, among industry, academia, and the Federal Government, to help the United States economy attain the economic benefits of this information and technology.”

§12405 Technology Transfer Program

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Title 42, §12405

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