AAU, together with AAMC, ACE, APLU, AUTM, and COGR, submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in response to NIST’s Return on Investment Initiative Green Paper. The comments express the associations’ strong support for the Green Paper’s overarching aims and for many of the Green Paper’s recommendations, several of which reflect a positive response to the associations’ July 2018 comments on NIST’s Request for Information (RFI) on Federal Technology Transfer Authorities and Processes.