3.0.0 2129 2023-01-11T13:26:45Z 2023-01-11T13:26:45Z Senate S S 2014-03-13 113 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-03-13T17:45:45Z 2014-03-13 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2014-03-13 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1656-1657) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2014-03-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM N Energy Advanced technology and technological innovations Business investment and capital Department of Energy Energy research Executive agency funding and structure Intellectual property Public contracts and procurement Public-private cooperation Research administration and funding Research and development Small business Technology transfer and commercialization Energy 00 2014-03-13 Introduced in Senate 2014-04-30T19:13:29Z Accelerating Technology Transfer to Advance Innovation for the Nation Act of 2014 or ATTAIN Act of 2014 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish the Office of Advanced Research, Technology Transfer, and Innovation in Energy (OARTTIE), under the direction of a Technology Transfer Coordinator, to improve Department of Energy (DOE) consolidation, coordination, and use of technology transfer resources.

Tasks the Office with improvement of procurement, contracting, and partnership procedures for technology transfer.

Enumerates the types of information collected by DOE or the National Laboratories from recipients of financial assistance awards or technology transfer partners that shall be considered privileged and confidential and therefore, not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Instructs DOE to establish a T2-Corps, modeled after the I-Corps of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to: (1) support investments in entrepreneurs, mentors, and principal investigators; and (2) invest in technology maturation, market assessment, and increasing industry and small business access to intellectual property and core DOE and National Laboratories capabilities.

Requires the OARTTIE to establish: (1) teams of entrepreneurs and mentors, selected competitively and each headed by a technology transfer office; and (2) technology commercialization challenges.

Directs DOE and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish jointly a Technology Transfer Investment Initiative to coordinate a partnership program carried out by the OARTTIE and the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Program of the SBA in order to leverage the strengths of the SBIC program to benefit the T2-Corps teams completing the DOE program.

]]> ATTAIN Act of 2014 Display Title ATTAIN Act of 2014 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to improve technology transfer at the Department of Energy by reducing bureaucratic barriers to industry, entrepreneurs, and small businesses, as well as ensure that public investments in research and development generate the greatest return on investment for taxpayers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced ATTAIN Act of 2014 Short Titles as Introduced Accelerating Technology Transfer to Advance Innovation for the Nation Act of 2014 Introduced in Senate 2014-03-13T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2129is/xml/BILLS-113s2129is.xml 2014-03-13 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.