A CRADA is the authority by which government laboratories can enter into agreements with private parties to conduct joint research. The government laboratory is allowed to provide, with or without reimbursement, personnel, services, facilities, equipment, intellectual property, or other resources, but not funds. The private sector entity may provide funds, services, facilities, equipment, intellectual property, or other resources toward the conduct of specified research and development efforts. The original impetus behind the development of this authority was to provide a mechanism for the private sector to benefit from the research carried out in government defense laboratories. Since its inception the focus has broadened to include government research outside of the defense sector. For more information about CRADA agreements at the Census Bureau contact John Kavaliunas at 301-457-4090.
The CRADA between the Census Bureau and Geographic Data Technology, Inc. (GDT) of Lebanon, N.H., a leading business geographics provider, is a partnership to research and develop a process to collect and electronically share basic geographic information needed to maintain the spatial data infrastructure of the United States.
The CRADA between the Census Bureau and the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) of Redlands, California, a leading developer of geographic information system software, is a partnership to develop a public retail product featuring census data and to research the use of commercial software to maintain the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) database.
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