Technology transfer partnerships involving multiple agencies, by bringing together dissimilar but complementary skill sets, can often achieve outcomes that would not be possible for an individual agency operating on its own. That's one reason why the White House has established the transition of federally funded innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace as one of its Cross-Agency Priority goals.
But forging an effective interagency T2 partnership is much easier said than done. The same challenges involved in any partnership - related to communications, missions, scheduling, personalities - can be magnified tenfold when multiple agencies are involved.
That's why successful interagency T2 partnership is deserving of its own FLC National Award category - and its own FLC Spotlight.
Please join us in congratulating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information on the 2020 Interagency Partnership Award.
The team's achievement and the contributions of each lab are summarized below.