Air Force expands use of express licensing
TechLink, a center within Montana State University’s Office of Research and Economic Development, is a Department of Defense partnership intermediary that specializes in marketing and licensing DOD technology to the commercial industry. The center developed the first express license for the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate’s Android Team Awareness Kit, also known as ATAK. TechLink developed a system that permits companies to apply online and the Information Directorate to quickly review and approve the license requests. As a result, a license agreement is automatically generated. More than 100 ATAK invention licenses have been completed as of June 1, 2018