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Established in October 2002, Strategic Consultants &
Advisors LLC, (SCA) a wholly owned subsidiary of Presidential Holdings,
was developed for the purpose of utilizing its team of professional
military and private sector consultants in areas of Home Land Defense,
Military, Law Enforcement and Emergency Medical Service. SCA also
provides advice to its clients relating to mergers, acquisitions, sales,
marketing and other business development strategies. The primary mission
is to provide high impact results that are effective and sustainable.
When applicable, SCA guides companies in the application process in
obtaining governmental Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA)
with the military, law enforcement agencies, EPA and other industry
segments.
Under a CRADA, engineers and scientists at the Naval Air Warfare Center
Weapons Division (NAWCWD) work cooperatively with their peers in
industry and academia on mutually beneficial research and development.
Both partners may contribute resources, services, facilities and
equipment. Among the services, a CRADA provides direct access to
federally developed science and technology.
A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement is a written agreement
between a private or public company and a governmental agency to work
together on a project. By entering into a CRADA, the federal government
and non-federal partners can optimize their resources and cost-
effectively perform research by sharing costs of this research. The
collaborating partner agrees to provide funds, personnel, services,
facilities, equipment or other resources needed to conduct a specific
research or development effort while the federal government agrees to
provide similar resources but not funds directly to the partner.
The CRADA vehicle provides incentives that can help speed the
commercialization of federally development technology, making it an
excellent technology transfer tool. The government protects any
propriety information brought to the CRADA effort by the partner. This
provides a true collaborative opportunity. Federal scientists can work
closely with their non-federal counterparts, exchanging ideas and
information while protecting the company secrets. Also, all parties can
mutually agree, if they so desires, to keep research results emerging
from the CRADA confidential and free form disclosure through the Freedom
of Information Act for up to 5 years. CRADA's also allow flexibility in
patenting and patent licenses or permitting on partner to retain
exclusive rights to a patent or patent license.
The company will also guide and assist its clients in the application
process to the Defense Advance Research Projects (DARPA). The Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency is the central research and
development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages
and directs projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where
risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide
dramatic advances for traditional roles and missions.
Our mission is to seek out technologies or services that may have
applications towards Homeland Defense, military, governmental security
agencies, police and emergency medical services by introducing, guiding
and assisting when applicable those companies through the governmental
application process. |
