Agreements

Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA)
(Model pdf)

This agreement enables industry, academia, and nonprofit entities to collaborate with the Laboratory for the purpose of joint R&D activities. If you are interested in developing a CRADA with Los Alamos, please contact Jill Durnal.

Non-Disclosure Agreements

These agreements protect proprietary information exchanged between parties during initial interactions and discussions between the Laboratory and another party on specific technical areas. To generate an agreement, please contact Debbie Gonzalez or send a completed Principal Investigator Questionnaire to nda@lanl.gov. A completed questionnaire is required to initiate an NDA. Following are examples of the different types of agreements:

• Bilateral NDA
• Unilateral-In NDA
• Unilateral-Out NDA

Material Transfer Agreement

A Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) is a contract that governs the transfer of tangible research materials between two organizations when the recipient intends to use the material(s) for his or her own research purposes. For additional assistance with individual agreements, please contact our MTA team at mta@lanl.gov.

Technology Transfer Mechanisms (pdf)

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