Use the responsible program or contracting office for this instrument.
The recorded role is not itself a general application endpoint.
What this role does not control
A routing lead does not establish funds, an individual delegation or approval of the proposed action.
Not general power to seize all privately developed patents, cap market prices, or obtain proprietary manufacturing know-how.
March-in includes administrative process and judicial review; some determinations stayed through appeal.
Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer. Use the responsible program’s process.
Selected instrument
ACQ-30 · Intellectual property & technology transfer
Under covered small-business/nonprofit funding agreements, allow contractor title while retaining a paid-up government license; invoke statutory march-in only on specified findings.
What this is not / limit: Not general power to seize all privately developed patents, cap market prices, or obtain proprietary manufacturing know-how.
Executing role: DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
Authority holder
Funding federal agency, with specified agency-head decisions
Eligibility gate
Subject invention and applicable funding agreement; disclosure/title-election/patent conditions.
March-in requires failure of practical application, unmet health/safety or regulatory public-use need, or U.S. manufacturing-agreement violation.
Funding condition
Government license follows covered research funding; exercising it still requires money for procurement/use.
All recorded limits
Not general power to seize all privately developed patents, cap market prices, or obtain proprietary manufacturing know-how.
March-in includes administrative process and judicial review; some determinations stayed through appeal.