An organization’s mission and vision are only as effective as the policies that are put into place to help achieve them. The policies guiding the FLC’s strategic operations start with the Consortium’s Bylaws and also address its advisors, volunteers, finances, and strategic partnerships with external organizations.
The Facilitate Guidebook provides useful information on the purpose of the Facilitate Committee as well as the organizational structure of the FLC, its regions, finances, and resources.
The Executive Board Guidebook outlines the roles, responsibilities and functions of the FLC. This Guidebook includes the rules for conducting business, funding, the FLC bylaws, cooperative agreement partner information and the strategic plan.
The Strategic Partnerships Policy was approved by the Executive Board in October 2024. The FLC will identify and establish strategically aligned relationships with intermediary partners that connect relevant communities of interest (technical, geographical, market, State & local governments, etc.) with Federal labs for interactions. This policy will be maintained by the Facilitate Committee.
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) operates through the combined effort of many individuals that may be by position, elected, staff, subcontractors, or interested stakeholders from industry, academia, and state and local government. Volunteers from a variety of sources are key to the ongoing function of the FLC. This policy describes how the FLC will recruit, manage, and work with volunteers.
This policy outlines the election process for the chairs of the Promote Committee, Educate Committee and Facilitate Committee who serve as representatives of the FLC Executive Board. It was approved on April 6, 2022.
This policy was approved by the FLC Executive Board during their July 2022 Board Meeting. It outlines the financial management of FLC funds, budget and budget requests, authority to sign contracts, financial reserves, expense reimbursement, check signing and the fiscal year.
All wire transfers from the FLC under the Cooperative Agreement with AUTM will be disbursed from AUTM according to the following steps outlined in this policy.
The National Advisory Council (NAC) is tasked to provide the Executive Board (EB) with user community views and suggestions related to the operations of the Consortium, as well as independent advice on any other topics mutually agreed to by the EB and the NAC. This document outlines the policies applied to the NAC.
This policy was approved by the FLC Executive Board during their July 2020 Board Meeting. It mandates that all payments from FLC will be in US funds. If expenses are incurred in non US funds, they will be converted to US funds.