Opportunity

SAM #ROLM_Drawings_Intellectual_Property_Rights

Air Force seeks IP rights resolution for ROLM ALCS technical data and drawings

Buyer

AFNWC Strategic Systems

Posted

May 05, 2026

Respond By

July 06, 2026

Identifier

ROLM_Drawings_Intellectual_Property_Rights

NAICS

335929

This notice concerns the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center's efforts to resolve intellectual property rights for technical data and blueprint drawings related to the Airborne Launch Control Systems (ALCS): - The AFNWC ICBM office at Hill Air Force Base is seeking to assert or obtain ownership of IP rights for specific ROLM technical data and blueprint drawings. - Drawings identified by numbers: 16-200901, 78-115493, 200959-05_0B6J0, 200972-03_0B6J0, 201049-01_14345, 201050-01_14345, 201050-02_14345. - These documents were originally issued by Rolm Corporation under contracts with GTE. - The government is challenging restrictive markings on these documents and requires the original owner/contractor to provide evidence supporting any proprietary claims. - If claims are not substantiated, the government will remove the markings and claim unlimited rights per DFARS 252.227-7013. - No products or services are being procured; this is a data rights resolution action. - Commercial opportunity may exist for parties with a legal or proprietary interest in the specified technical data. - OEMs referenced: Rolm Corporation and GTE. - Place of performance: Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

Description

Blueprint drawing numbers16-200901, 78-115493, 200959-05_0B6J0, 200972-03_0B6J0, 201049-01_14345, 201050-01_14345, and 201050-02_14345 contain unauthorized restrictive markings, and based upon information and belief, have been abandoned by the Owner/Contractor. The Government asserts its right to require the Owner/Contractor to furnish clear and convincing evidence of the propriety of any restrictive markings used by the contractor under contract on Blueprint drawing numbers 16-200901, 78-115493, 200959-05_0B6J0, 200972-03_0B6J0, 201049-01_14345, 201050-01_14345, and 201050-02_14345. The Government shall correct, cancel, ignore and/or remove any marking not authorized by contract on any technical data on Blueprint drawing numbers 16-200901 78-115493, 200959-05_0B6J0, 200972-03_0B6J0, 201049-01_14345, 201050-01_14345, and 201050-02_14345 if: (1) the Owner/Contractor fails to respond within sixty (60) days to the inquiry by the Government concerning the propriety of the markings, or (2) the Owner/Contractor's response fails to substantiate, within sixty (60) days after the notice, the propriety of limited rights markings by clear and convincing evidence, or of restricted rights markings by identification of the restrictions set forth in the contract.

If no response to the Government’s inquiry has been received within sixty (60) days by the Contracting Officer, or if the response fails to substantiate by clear and convincing evidence that the markings were authorized, the Government shall cancel, ignore and/or remove such markings from Blueprint drawing numbers 16-200901, 78-115493, 200959-05_0B6J0, 200972-03_0B6J0, 201049-01_14345, 201050-01_14345, and 201050-02_14345, notify the Owner/Contractor accordingly, and, thereafter, the Government shall use such technical data on Blueprint drawing numbers 16-200901, 78-115493, 200959-05_0B6J0, 200972-03_0B6J0, 201049-01_14345, 201050-01_14345, and 201050-02_14345 with unlimited rights in accordance with DFARS 252.227-7013. Unlimited Rights means rights to use, duplicate, or disclose technical data, in whole or in part, in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever, and to have or permit others to do so.