In 2006, CRC's Advanced Radio Systems Group received an "Excellence in Technology Transfer Award" from the Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT), for its contribution to Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. This award recognizes the transfer of technology from a federal laboratory to a commercial application, resulting in significant public good or economic impact. The CRC research group developed an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for SDR, which enables different types of computing and information technology hardware to handle multiple radio transmissions protocols. Named the Software Communications Architecture - Reference Implementation (SCARI) Software Suite, this product has been licensed to 14 major companies nationally and internationally. SCARI also has an educational version that has been downloaded more than 7,000 times from its Web site (ww.crc.ca/sdr). Award winners include: Claude Bélisle, Steve Bernier, Hugues Latour, François Lévesque, Sébastien Gauthier and Charles Auger.