About
How this platform got here
A federal technology-transfer catalog was built with public money, ran for roughly a decade, and then went offline — taking a public record of what the defense laboratories had to offer with it. This page is the full account of what existed, who funded it, how it ended up here, and why we kept it running.
c. 2010 – 2015
DoD TechMatch
dodtechmatch.com
The original public database of Department of Defense laboratories, facilities, licensable patents, and available technologies — built so that a company outside the defense industrial base could find federally developed technology and the office that controlled it.
- An ASP.NET catalog organized by service branch, laboratory, and facility.
- Records for laboratories and their departments, physical test facilities, licensable patents, technologies offered for transfer, technology needs posted by the services, and success stories from completed transfers.
- The homepage pulled four external streams into the same place as the catalog: FedBizOpps solicitations, FedGrants announcements, SBIR/STTR topics, and an events calendar.
2015 – c. 2019
IP TechMatch
iptechmatch.com
A rebuild that its own login page described as "the new improved version of DoDTechMatch.com" — the same catalog with accounts layered on top, so a scout could save what they cared about and be told when something matched.
- Built by VajraSoft, with user accounts and keyword-based email alerts.
- Aggregated FedBizOpps, Grants.gov, and SBIR/STTR feeds alongside the catalog.
- Added a Featured Technologies section and an Affiliate Partner Network for participating organizations.
- Operated by the Center for Innovation (CFI) under Air Force Research Laboratory Partnership Intermediary Agreement No. FA8650-10-3-9700.
2026 –
IP TechMatch, restored
iptechmatch.com
The catalog rebuilt from a public archive of the original site, with the live federal feeds reconnected and the historical records labelled as what they are.
- Records were recovered from a public web capture of the original site, parsed deterministically, and imported with full provenance — source URL, capture date, extraction method, and a confidence score on every row.
- Historical records are labelled historical. They reflect the catalog as it stood when it was captured, and nothing about them is presented as current.
- Live solicitations, current patent filings, and events come from public federal sources and are refreshed on their own schedule.
- Contact details printed in the original listings were withheld rather than republished.
Funding & provenance
Who paid for the original, and what that means for the records
Both earlier generations were operated by the Center for Innovation under a Partnership Intermediary Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory — agreement number FA8650-10-3-9700. A partnership intermediary agreement is the mechanism (15 U.S.C. § 3715) by which a federal laboratory pays a non-federal partner to do exactly this kind of work: help companies, universities, and state programs find and use federally developed technology.
We do not publish figures for that agreement, because we have not verified them. What we can say precisely is what the agreement produced: a catalog of laboratory, facility, patent, and technology records that was public for years and is public here again.
Every record carries where it came from. Historical rows are labelled historical and show the original catalog URL; live rows name the federal source they were aggregated from. Nothing generated by our own analysis is presented as a fact from the record.
What was recovered
1,286 published records so far. Recovery is not complete — the archive captured detail pages unevenly, and a record that was never captured cannot be recovered from it. Those gaps are being refilled from authoritative sources (the USPTO for patents, the laboratories themselves for lab and facility records) rather than guessed at.
Why we operate it
The honest version
We came to this domain commercially. It is a strong, aged domain in the intellectual property space, and the initial interest was search visibility — an SEO play, plainly. There is no reason to dress that up.
What changed the plan was reading what was actually in the archive. Roughly two thousand records describing which laboratory holds which capability, which facility can run which test, and which patents the services had offered for license — built with public funding, then dark. Rebuilding it as a working public catalog is worth considerably more than parking a domain, and it is the kind of thing that should not require anyone’s permission to do well.
Federal technology transfer works when the people outside the building can find what is inside it. A small company should be able to discover that a laboratory two states over has already solved half their problem, see who controls that technology, and know which mechanism moves it — a license, a CRADA, an SBIR topic. That is the job this platform is built to do.
So the commercial interest and the public one point the same direction: the more complete and more accurate this catalog is, the better it serves both. Where they ever diverge, the rule is the one applied to every record on the site — say what is verified, label what is historical, and never present a guess as a fact.
Standing disclosures
- This platform is independently operated. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. Department of Defense or any of its components.
- It is not the current operator of the Partnership Intermediary Agreement described above, and does not act under it.
- Historical records reflect the catalog at the time of capture and may be out of date. Confirm anything consequential against the issuing laboratory or agency.
- Contact names, emails, and phone numbers from the original listings were deliberately withheld rather than republished.
- Maintained by Snappy-Tech and Wysebridge.
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