"Prepared for the Department of the Air Force." "RAND Project AIR FORCE." Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-85).
Contents:
Introduction -- Why Does the Air Force Need Intellectual Property? -- Effort Today to Yield Benefits Elsewhere in the Far Future -- What the Air Force Must Do to Acquire the Technical Data and Data Rights It Needs -- What Can Be Done to Define and Then Sustain a Longer-Term Perspective? -- A Congressionally Mandated Solution: Intellectual Property Cadres -- Long-Term Option Pricing -- Recommendations -- Appendix A. Findings of the Studies Mandated by the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act Sections 809, 813, and 875.
Summary:
In this report, the authors examine opportunities to improve policy on technical data and data rights associated with operating and sustaining Air Force major weapon systems. Drawing on past RAND Corporation analysis, and the findings of the studies conducted under Sections 809, 813, and 875 of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, the authors identify intellectual property (IP) issues most likely to interest the senior leadership of the Air Force and develop high-level recommendations to address those issues. Among the issues addressed are clarification of the definitions of key types of technical data, creation of an Air Force cadre of specialists on technical data and data rights, and creation of a new form of standard contract that would allow the Air Force and its contractors to negotiate the terms for buying technical data and data rights during a competitive source selection for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) and then preserve the option to buy data and data rights under those terms over the lifetime of the resulting program.
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