Strategic Intelligence Partnership Projects (SIPP)

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Allows Intelligence Community partnerships that require special access and classification considerations to conduct the work.

SPPs and SIPPs are a vehicle to engage with the NNSS to perform a defined scope of work or tasks on a full-cost recovery basis. By law, NNSS must not compete with private industry; therefore, any work must draw upon the unique facilities, equipment, or personnel intrinsic to the NNSS.
The rights to inventions and data that arise under such a contract (subject inventions) may vest in the sponsor if the sponsor is a U.S. entity and pays for the work with private funds; however, if the sponsor is subcontracting federal funds to the NNSS or if the sponsor is a non-U.S. entity, then the rights of subject inventions will typically vest with NNSS. The government will retain a license for all subject inventions for use by or on behalf of the government.
The U.S. Department of Energy requires either 1) advance payment of the entire amount of funding or 2) a pay plan that requires the first payment to include a 60-day (at minimum) reserve of expected cost and in some instances funding for the first 30 days of work.
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