Federally Funded Research and Development Centers

Description
Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) description in government regulations:


 * Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FAR) 35.017(a)(2)


 * An FFRDC meets some special long-term research or development need which cannot be met as effectively by existing in-house or contractor resources. FFRDC's enable agencies to use private sector resources to accomplish tasks that are integral to the mission and operation of the sponsoring agency. An FFRDC, in order to discharge its responsibilities to the sponsoring agency, has access, beyond that which is common to the normal contractual relationship, to Government and supplier data, including sensitive and proprietary data, and to employees and facilities. The FFRDC is required to conduct its business in a manner befitting its special relationship with the Government, to operate in the public interest with objectivity and independence, to be free from organizational conflicts of interest, and to have full disclosure of its affairs to the sponsoring agency. It is not the Government's intent that an FFRDC use its privileged information or access to facilities to compete with the private sector. However, an FFRDC may perform work for other than the sponsoring agency under the Economy Act, or other applicable legislation, when the work is not otherwise available from the private sector.

In Fiscal Year 2004, there were 36 FFRDCs working in the fields of defense, energy, aviation, space, health and human services, and tax administration.

About the List
Master Government List of 36 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers FY 2004. Each Main Government Agency is a section title. Any bold listing within a section is the Agency Department with direct oversight of the FFDRC(s) listed under it. (Scraped from a National Science Foundation Page, 2005.01.13.)

Department of Defense Managed FFRDCs
Department of Defense -
 * Office of the Secretary of Defense -
 * Software Engineering Institute - (Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, PA -
 * Institute for Defense Analyses Studies and Analyses FFDRC - Alexandria, VA -
 * National Defense Research Institute - (RAND Corp.), Santa Monica, CA -
 * C3I Federally Funded Research &amp; Development Center - (MITRE Corp.), Bedford, MA and McLean, VA -
 * National Security Agency -
 * Institute for Defense Analyses Communications and Computing FFRDC - (Institute for Defense Analyses), Alexandria, VA -
 * Department of the Navy -
 * Center for Naval Analyses - (The CNA Corporation), Alexandria, VA -
 * Department of the Air Force -
 * Lincoln Laboratory - (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lexington, MA -
 * Aerospace Federally Funded Research and Development Center - (The Aerospace Corporation), El Segundo, CA -
 * Project Air Force - (RAND Corp.), Santa Monica, CA -
 * Department of the Army -
 * Arroyo Center - (RAND Corp.), Santa Monica, CA -

Department of Energy Managed FFRDCs
Department of Energy -
 * Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory - (Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC), Idaho Falls, ID -
 * Sandia National Laboratories - (Sandia Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp.), Albuquerque, NM -
 * Savannah River Technology Center - (Westinghouse Savannah River Co.), Aiken, SC -
 * Ames Laboratory - (Iowa State University of Science and Technology), Ames, IA -
 * Argonne National Laboratory - (University of Chicago), Argonne, IL  -
 * Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - (University of California), Berkeley, CA -
 * Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory - (Universities Research Association, Inc.), Batavia, IL -
 * Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (University of California), Livermore, CA -
 * Los Alamos National Laboratory - (University of California), Los Alamos, NM -
 * Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory - (Princeton University), Princeton, NJ -
 * Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - (Leland Stanford, Jr., University), Stanford, CA -
 * Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - (Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc.), Newport News, VA -
 * Brookhaven National Laboratory - ''(Brookhaven Science Associates, Inc.), Upton, Long Island, NY-
 * National Renewable Energy Laboratory'' - (Midwest Research Institute; Battelle Memorial Institute; Bechtel National, Inc.), Golden, CO-
 * Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ''(UT-Battelle, LLC), Oak Ridge, TN-
 * Pacific Northwest National Laboratory'' - (Battelle Memorial Institute), Richland, WA-

Department of Health and Human Services Managed FFRDCs
Department of Health and Human Services -
 * National Institutes of Health
 * National Cancer Institute at Frederick - (Science Applications International Corp.; Charles River Laboratories, Inc.; Data Management Services, Inc.; Wilson Information Services, Inc.), Frederick, MD -

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Managed FFRDCs
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -
 * Jet Propulsion Laboratory - (California Institute of Technology), Pasadena, CA -

National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation (NSF) -
 * National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center - (Cornell University), Arecibo, PR -
 * National Center for Atmospheric Research - (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), Boulder, CO -
 * National Optical Astronomy Observatories - (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.) -
 * National Radio Astronomy Observatory - (Associated Universities, Inc.), Green Bank, WV -
 * Science and Technology Policy Institute - (Institute for Defense Analyses), Alexandria, VA -

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Managed FFRDCs
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) -
 * Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses - (Southwest Research Institute), San Antonio, TX -

Department of Transportation Managed FFRDCs
Department of Transportation (DOT) -
 * Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) -
 * Center for Advanced Aviation System Development - (MITRE Corp.), McLean, VA -

Department of the Treasury Managed FFRDCs
Department of the Treasury -
 * Internal Revenue Service -
 * Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federally Funded Research and Development Center - MITRE Corp., Center for Enterprise Modernization, McLean, VA -