Modification to use of partnership intermediaries to promote defense research and education

Section 4124(f) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting or Department of Defense laboratory after Center each place it appears; (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: (2) A Department of Defense laboratory may pay the Federal costs of a contract, memorandum of understanding, or other transaction entered into under this subsection out of funds available to the laboratory for the support of technology transfer and transition functions, research and development, or operation and maintenance.; and (4) in paragraph (3)(B), as so redesignated, by adding, or that can assist a Center or Department of Defense laboratory with technology transition, either out of, or into, the Center or laboratory before the semicolon.