Air Force speeds private licensing of technology

Force’s release said.

ATAK gives warfighters the ability to quickly create mapping, including the fast mapping of locations of interest, location sharing, location history, targeting and more.

“Express licensing was chosen because it could quickly and easily get the technology in the hands of developers for broad distribution and further improvements,” Oelkers said in the Wright- Patt statement.

“One express license was completed in only 13 business days.”

Most traditional license agreements take months to negotiate and complete, he said.

More than 100 ATAK invention licenses have been completed as of June 1, the Air Force release said.

“Because of that success, several DoD laboratories also have opted to offer express licenses for selected technologies,” the Air Force said.

“Other AFRL directorates recently joined the effort, including both the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate and the 711th Human Performance Wing, which began offering express licenses in March 2018.

The Aerospace Systems Directorate is in the process of adding technologies as well.”

TechLink has 221 DoD technologies available for express licensing, 63 of which belong to the Air Force.

The number of Air Force technologies available via express licensing is expected to exceed 100 in early 2019.