dramatic increase in newly signed patent license agreements realized since the start of Open Campus is projected to continue. Tese new mechanisms include licenses with academic, industry and small business partners, both domestic and international, in military as well as commercial applications.


For example, ARL’s fundamental research in lithium-ion bat- tery interfaces led to a 5-volt cathode with 30 percent increased energy that is safer and more stable than existing commer- cial solutions. A patent is pending, and the Canadian firm Hydro-Quebec has licensed the technology and is providing a 50 percent cost-share to further develop it. Another example is Per Vivo Labs Inc., which is licensing rate-activated tethers that incorporate new stretchable materials into resistance bands and other physical therapy aids. (See “Per Vivo Warms to Tech Transfer,” Page 183.)


COMMERCIALIZATION AND INCUBATION To help promote the commercialization of ARL intellectual property, ARL has developed partnership intermediary agree- ments (PIAs) with several partners. PIAs increase the likelihood of success in conducting cooperative or joint activities with STEM-oriented nonprofits, small businesses, educational agen- cies and colleges and universities, with partners serving as a liaison with outside, nonfederal entities.


In one such arrangement, the Energetics Technology Center (ETC) established incubator capabilities near ARL facilities in Adelphi, and recently conducted several lunch-and-learn and tech talks and two lean startup sessions. Sessions focused on ARL patents and were designed to help promote the commer- cialization of ARL intellectual property by providing a place for ARL researchers to collaborate with entrepreneurs and


BRANCHING OUT ARL researcher Dr. Steven D. Keller, foreground, works with Dr. Do-Hoon Kwon, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in Kwon's lab. Keller, part of the Antennas and RF Technology Integration Branch within ARL’s Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, recently completed a three-year detail at UMass Amherst on antenna research and fabrication that included the co-mentoring of doctoral students. Such re- lationships are encouraged by ARL and facilitated by the Open Campus framework. (Photo courtesy of University of Massachusetts Amherst)


businesses interested in licensing ARL’s patents. Tree small business startups occupy space at the 7,000-square-foot incu- bator in Adelphi. ARL also established a PIA for using a small business technology incubator near its campus on APG.


CONCLUSION ARL’s Open Campus is creating collaborative possibilities to generate a more adaptive, efficient and effective defense research environment that is responsive to future national security chal- lenges. ARL continues to pursue academic, government, small business and industry partners for collaborative engagement.


Te formal and informal interactions among scientists, engi-


neers and business and technology specialists with multiple technical disciplines and globally diverse perspectives will lead to new fundamental knowledge, enhance the frequency of scien- tific and engineering breakthroughs and innovation, effectively transition technologies into engineered systems, and help guide strategic science, technology and acquisition policy.


For more information, contact the author at wendy.a.leonard. civ@mail.mil.


MS. WENDY LEONARD is the program manager of the Open Campus initiative. She holds a B.S. in physics with a minor in math from Loyola University in Maryland.


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