Defense Technical Information Center
Abstract
As the leader of the DoD’s scientific and technical information (STINFO) program, DTIC has the responsibility to develop, coordinate and enable a strong STINFO program for the Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) and the DoD Scientific & Technical (S&T) enterprise. In its role as the DoD STINFO Manager, DTIC sets and enables policy for scientific and technical information exchanges for the research and engineering community. DTIC’s aim is to maximize the availability and use of technical information and products resulting from Defense-funded technical activities while ensuring restrictions in national security, export control, and intellectual property rights are safeguarded. It is DoD policy to establish and maintain a coordinated and comprehensive program to document the results and outcome of DoD-sponsored and performed research and engineering (R&E) and studies, and to provide access to those efforts in an effective manner. In the 21st Century, supporting the S&T and RDT&E communities will require that DTIC integrate, more than ever, our collections with databases, information links, utilizing the latest information technology, whether in-house or outside of our Department, regardless of the source. DTIC’s customers, from the individual researcher to the acquisition professional, will be able to quickly fuse information into the most complete picture needed in a matter of minutes to hours; not days to months. DTIC accomplishes its mission to provide critical scientific, technical and related program information by performing the activities described in the three core integrated functions below: 1. RESEARCH SUPPORT AND LIBRARY REPOSITORY. This activity represents a world-class library with exceptional librarians capable of providing targeted research quickly. DTIC offers the STI community an authoritative source of information, including dissemination limitations availability of the material. DTIC is the information repository from which new technologies arise. Working with classification/declassification experts across the DoD, the U.S. Government and affiliates, DTIC obtains the latest document classification information. DTIC leads the DoD in the implementation of a new marking/protection scheme for unclassified sensitive information, now called Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and is exploring how these changes will affect all of our automated validation and registration systems. 2. WEB SERVICES AND SITE HOSTING. Within this activity, DTIC develops customized information solutions and hosts applications that support the DoD Components. The jointly developed information collection, collaboration and analysis projects facilitate components’ goals to improve DoD acquisition decision-making, increase collaborative research and development efforts, facilitate business processes, and provide improved support for the warfighter. DTIC hosts over 100 public, limited and classified web-based information systems for the DoD Components. Customers include such organizations as: Joint Chief of Staff (JCS), Director, Defense Research & Engineering (DDR&E), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (OUSD(C)), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), and the Combatant Commands. Notable web-hosting development efforts include the Federal Voter Assistance Program (FVAP), providing voter access to U.S. citizens across the world; the OSD-Comptroller’s R-2 application, a Department-wide effort to standardize appropriated budget information for submission to Congress; and the Iraq Virtual Science Library (IVSL), which was transitioned to the Iraqi government in FY 2010. 3. COLLABORATION. DTIC is at the center of the Research & Engineering hub, connecting users and data in meaningful ways. Recognizing that information technology and information usage demands continually evolve, DTIC works within DoD and industry to leverage existing tools and pilot new capabilities and approaches to improve information discovery, analysis, and collaboration--connecting teams and people across the enterprise. To avoid duplication of efforts, DTIC partners with DoD and other federal government organizations to provide federated access to information resources and tools. As relevant research and engineering and S&T information is stored at organizations across the Department, DTIC will expand its collections, virtually, by helping users leverage remote collections. DTIC will work to federate access to users through identity management agreements, or by exploiting remote collections through search crawlers, abstracts, links, and other references. Traditionally, the R&E community has worked in small geographically clustered teams and then shared information broadly through publishing reports on completed work. Internet technologies have changed the paradigm. Web 2.0 collaboration and professional networking technologies bring scientific investigation and research and development to an inflection point. Small geographically collocated teams, with limited resources and unique perspectives, will combine with other teams around the globe, bringing a diversity of perspectives and experiences to bear on problems to develop new solutions quickly and with increased innovation. Collaboration tools have the additional opportunity for the solution provider to fully engage the warfighter and decision makers; allowing those working on the solution to connect with those presenting the challenge/problem. In partnership with the DDR&E Communities of Interest, such as Modeling & Simulation; Rapid Prototyping; High Performance Computing; Basic Research & laboratory programs; and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); to name a few; DTIC continues to enhance our collaborative suite of services, complementing our core repositories with advanced search to empower users in the Defense community to quickly recognize where resources are being applied, expertise exists, the state of the art, and most importantly, the art of the possible, as decision makers at all levels work to field 75 percent solutions in the immediate term and 99 percent solutions over the long term.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 001_0605801KA_6_0400_PB_2012
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