ABSTRACT
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) research program goes to the heart of the future defence technologies; Participation will enhance people ability to sustain an effective British research capability in areas of high technology relevant to both defence and civil programs. Those complex discussions have been completed and agreement has been reached on an information exchange program, on the areas where British companies and institutions have enterprise which might form part of the United States-funded SDI research program, and on the mechanisms to facilitate that cooperation. The confidential memorandum of understanding reached between the two governments safeguards British interests in relation to the ownership of intellectual property rights and technology transfer, and provides for consultative and review mechanisms in support of the aims of the memorandum. That office will work in the closest concert with British firms and institutions interested in such participation.
