Assure Controls Signs Navy Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
Carlsbad, California, September 26, 2007 — Assure Controls, Inc., a Carlsbad company specializing in developing and commercializing environmental technologies, announced the signing of a three year Navy Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Under authority of the U.S. Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, the Office of Research and Technology Applications (SSC San Diego Technology Transfer Office), and the company will cooperate on the commercialization of technologies.
A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) is a written agreement between a private company and a government agency to work together on a project. The CRADA allows the optimization of resources between the parties, the ability to share technical expertise in a protected environment, to share intellectual property emerging from the effort, and to speed the commercialization of federally developed technology.
Through the CRADA with SSC San Diego that was executed in 2005, Assure Controls commercialized a patented technology that allows rapid onsite detection of contaminants at toxic levels in water and sediments (QwikLite™). The QwikLite™ Testing System uses sensitive bioluminescent plankton to assess the toxicity of both inorganic and organic substances. Assure Controls and SSC San Diego successfully transferred the technology, now being marketed both in the U.S. and overseas. The newly signed CRADA allows a continuation of this relationship for three years; future commercialization licenses are anticipated.
Founded in 2005, Assure Controls is a product development and marketing company with specialized measurement and reporting expertise for environmental water applications. For more information, visit www.AssureControls.com.
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