Grants, Cooperative Agreements, + Government-Funded Research & Development

Fluet’s Government Contracts Practice brings deep and significant experience to clients engaging across the full spectrum of Government-funded programs and strategic funding mechanisms, including those in the research and development (R&D) ecosystem, through grants, cooperative agreements, other transaction awards, and contracts. Our work spans not only Government-funded R&D, but also program implementation, technology transition, infrastructure development, and mission-critical operational support across the aerospace, defense, environmental, and national security sectors.

Academic institutions, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), laboratories, consortia, tribes, State/local governments, and both non-profit and for-profit awardees face a range of complex and evolving requirements and challenges while performing cutting edge R&D, scaling emerging technologies, and delivering critical capabilities that are shaping the future. Our attorneys speak our clients’ language, providing both business and legal advice informed by firsthand experience across the Government-funding landscape, including Federal R&D funding sources, research proposals and white papers, traditional grants and cooperative agreements, other transaction authority (OTA) agreements, assistance awards and other types of agreements, the Uniform Guidance (2 C.F.R. Part 200) and agency-specific regulations, cost accounting and audits, research misconduct and research integrity, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, research protection and risk mitigation, non-procurement suspension and debarment, intellectual property and data rights, and technology transfer.

Fluet attorneys have first-hand experience from the highest levels of Government, having worked on implementing significant policies and efforts involving defense innovation, industrial base development, technology transition, environmental and infrastructure programs, and Federally funded initiatives beyond traditional procurement contracts. This depth of experience and understanding allows us to provide strategic guidance that combines deep technical fluency with practical insights into how Government-funded R&D initiatives are structured, awarded, and executed — from identifying funding opportunities and transitioning new technologies to project execution and follow-on production or deployment, and everything in between.