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USIC offers several key business benefits:

  • Technology commercialization expertise
  • International contacts
  • Access to emerging markets
  • Advice, best practices, and more

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Benefits of GIPP

Former Soviet institutes and weapons personnel benefit from GIPP:

  • Commercial relationships with established U.S. technology firms.
  • Exposure to Western commercial business practices.
  • Employment and income opportunities in high-tech fields related to professional experience.
  • Collaboration with U.S. scientists and DOE national laboratories.
  • Equitable distribution of intellectual property.

U.S. industry partners, which are required to join USIC to participate in the GIPP program, also enjoy benefits:

  • Access to and development of new sources of technology for their companies.
  • Research and development by former Soviet scientists, under the supervision of DOE national laboratory experts, paid for by U.S. government funds.
  • Established arrangements for equitable distribution of intellectual property developed through a GIPP project.
  • Formal review by the U.S. government to address potential problems such as expert control or international technology transfer restrictions.

Interagency Cooperation

GIPP is one of a number of U.S. government programs that address the technology and/or commercial aspects of interacting with the republics of the former Soviet Union.

The U.S. Department of State operates  Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Expertise (NWMDE), a program that
supports the engagement and permanent redirection of former weapon scientists worldwide. NWMDE has three distinct sub-programs: the Science Centers program, the BioIndustry Initiative, and the Bio-Chem Redirect program. For the Science Centers, the State Department coordinates U.S. government participation in two multilateral organizations operating in the former Soviet Union: the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) based in Moscow, and the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) based in Kyiv. Both centers seek to engage former Soviet weapons scientists and engineers in peaceful research and development activities. The BioIndustry Initiative is designed to counter the threat of bioterrorism through targeted transformation of former Soviet biological weapons research and production capacities. The Bio-Chem Redirect effort engages former Soviet biological and chemical weapons scientists in transparent and sustainable civilian research projects with U.S. partners.