A working platform, built on a recovered public record.

This site preserves records from a defense technology-transfer portal that ran under two names. The first, DoD TechMatch (v1), launched to connect federal laboratories, licensable inventions, and available technologies with industry, researchers, and the broader technology-transfer community.

Around 2015 it was succeeded by IP TechMatch (v2), operated by the Center for Innovation (CFI) under a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Partnership Intermediary Agreement, No. FA8650-10-3-9700. The underlying platform was built by VajraSoft. Over time the original portal went offline and its catalog of records effectively disappeared from the public web.

This project — the v3 rebuild — reconstructs that catalog and puts it back to work. The recovered records form the historical spine; on top of them sit the live surfaces the original portal was built around: open solicitations, current patent filings, events, and a service-by-service view of the whole department. It is an independently operated platform, not a government system and not a continuation of the original program.

Two kinds of data sit side by side here, and every record says which it is. Live data is aggregated from public federal sources — SAM.gov (successor to FedBizOpps), Grants.gov (successor to FedGrants), the DoD SBIR/STTR portal, and continuously monitored patent filings. Historical data comes from the recovered catalog and carries a Historical label plus its provenance.

Because connectors come online one at a time, each source's status — connected, pending, or degraded — is published on the opportunities page rather than left to inference. Nothing here is authoritative: confirm dates, eligibility, and legal status against the issuing agency before relying on it.

The records here were recovered from public web archives — primarily the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — using publicly accessible snapshots of the original sites (dodtechmatch.com and iptechmatch.com), with a 2019 snapshot serving as the principal source. The archived pages were parsed, normalized into a consistent schema, and re-published.

Because that source material is a snapshot, the historical collections are a point-in-time reconstruction: they make no claim to reflect the current status of any laboratory, patent, technology, or program. The live collections described above are aggregated from public federal sources; no part of this platform is connected to, or receives data from, an internal government system.

Every record carries a provenance label. Most records are historical — reproduced as they appeared in the archived source, without independent confirmation. A smaller set may be marked verified, meaning specific fields have been checked against a second source. Historical does not mean inaccurate, and verified does not mean current; both labels describe the state of our knowledge, not an endorsement.

Treat records as archival references, not authoritative or up-to-date filings. For the current status of a patent or technology, consult the primary authority — for example, Google Patents or the USPTO.

This archive is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Center for Innovation, VajraSoft, or any federal agency. Government works and third-party marks referenced in the records remain the property of their respective owners. This is an independent historical archive, restored and maintained for the public record.