The MDA Technology Applications (TA) program helps MDA-funded researchers commercialize and scale up their technologies. Commercialization and technology transfer efforts by the program ensure that MDA-funded technologies survive and mature, allowing them eventually to be rolled into the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The program helps MDA-funded researchers by guiding business strategies and increasing public and industry awareness of their MDA-funded technologies. In seeking to fulfill this mission, the TA program offers free workshops and commercialization reviews that help these researchers and companies focus on their business strengths and problems. The program also disseminates information about MDA-funded technologies through special reports, a searchable Web-based database, and the quarterly MDA TechUpdate newsletter, which is distributed to a broad range of readers in business, government, and media. MDA supports commercialization because it reduces costs and improves the