COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT (CRADA) The U.S. Census Bureau maintains the Nation's largest and most complete data bases concerning the country's population and businesses. This information, when disseminated using the latest available technologies and marketing systems, would be of invaluable benefit to the Nation's business, academic, and public sector communities. The Bureau would like to work in partnership with the private sector to conduct joint research, using both available Bureau technology and non-Federal expertise, to develop new data products and improve dissemination of this important data. Accordingly, CASIC, the Census Bureau's Reinvention Laboratory, invites proposals from interested parties regarding the possibility of entering into a CRADA to research, develop and market new products, within the parameters of the Bureau's confidentiality protection requirements. The basic premise for these initiatives will be to develop new value-added data products useful for users' market analysis, modeling and/or other business planning purposes. Subjects of research for possible CRADAs include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Combining two or more existing Census Bureau data sets (e.g., economic, demographic and/or geographic); 2. Combining privately-developed software and/or data sets and Census Bureau data sets; 3. Combining Census Bureau data sets and those of other Federal agencies, as permitted; 4. Combination of any of the above. The Census Bureau anticipates entering into more than one CRADA, with more than one partner. All CRADAs will be undertaken pursuant to the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, as amended, now codified at 15 U.S.C. 3710a, which allows Federal laboratories to enter into cooperative research agreements with qualified parties. Under this law, the Census Bureau may provide personnel, service, facilities, equipment or other resources with or without reimbursement, but not funds. For further information, contact Don Wynegar, (301) 457-2155, U.S. Census Bureau, Federal Building 3, Room 2440, Washington, DC 20233-0001, e-mail: W.DON.WYNEGAR@CCMAIL.CENSUS.GOV.

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