Defense Technical Information Center
Abstract
DTIC is responsible for developing, coordinating and enabling a strong scientific and technical information (STINFO) program for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)) and the DoD scientific & technical (S&T) enterprise. In this role, DTIC sets policy for scientific and technical information (STI) exchanges for the research and engineering (R&E) 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 to safeguard national security, export control, and intellectual property rights. Recognizing the common elements across budget justification documents, progress reports, completed work reports, studies, and journal articles, DTIC is mapping relationships to enable users to access the life cycle of research projects from planning to final results. DTIC employs technology to verify and validate information submitted and improve user confidence in DoD research documentation. DTIC is leading the Department’s efforts to implement public access to published journal articles, and digital data from research funded by taxpayers. In this role, DTIC is actively working with partners across the Services, components, other federal agencies and publishers. Consistent with the Administration’s (Office of Management and Budget) emphasis for open standards and machine readable formats, DTIC initiated the transition from paper and Portable Document Format (PDF) based information to WebService Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard data submission and machine readable delivery. DTIC partnered with the OSD Comptroller to collect investment account budget justification documentation in XML and embed this XML in PDF for justification books delivered to Congress. DTIC employed this same technology in collecting S&T progress reports from the Services and Agencies, and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) data from industry. DTIC is planning the migration of completed technical reports collection to the same open standards – machine readable formats. Through the use of commercial search technology, DTIC provides an industry leading search capability that links its knowledge of the DoD domain and metadata to support both text searches and data mining. DTIC continually works to enable additional features within our search capabilities and from commercial partners to improve information discovery and relevance. With the September 2014 full operating capability (FOC) release of the commercial product based R&E Gateway, DTIC provides the means to connect 60,000+ members in the acquisition enterprise (DoD Labs, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), Program Executive Offices, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L) and Combatant Commands (CCMD)). In an access controlled environment all of DTIC’s unclassified assets, tools and community interaction capabilities foster innovation, competition and identification of solutions. DoD conducts research at its 60+ labs, in the FFRDC’s, DTIC’s Information Analysis Centers (IACs), through contracts and grants, and across over a dozen distinct priority area communities of interest; this work is available through the R&E Gateway. To protect information, DTIC maintains a database of registered users; in addition, DTIC utilizes commercial software and follows DoD Identity Management Standards, providing Common Access Card (CAC) users instant authenticated access. DTIC is working with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to give users more control of their online profile and extend immediate access to federal government employees and contractors holding valid credentials. Focus on User Communities and Distribution Points: DTIC supports user communities on the network where they work, NIPRNET, SIPRNET and Internet, and uniquely provides access controls within unclassified and classified material to protect intellectual property in our search, distribution, and collaboration tools. - DoD’s Acquisition Enterprise: As a Field Activity to ASD(R&E)/AT&L, DTIC’s priority is the acquisition enterprise, hosting information assets and tools on the NIPRNET (the primary network for the community). - Warfighter: Improving coordination between the acquisition enterprise and warfighter communities, DTIC hosts a subset of information assets and tools on the SIPRNET. DTIC is working to expand the availability of S&T information, to include Independent Research and Development (IR&D), on the SIPRNET. - Industry and Academia via Internet: Engaging industry outside the NIPRNET “firewall” to support Better Buying Power initiatives and encourage the introduction of innovation, DTIC hosts unclassified “public” information and tools accessible to all users on the Internet. The Public Access initiative adds importance to the public distribution point, to encourage technology transfer of basic and public research to the private sector, and to give an economic boost to small businesses that can use that data to provide new applications to consumers. Summary. DTIC protects and preserves DoD’s multi-billion dollar investment in research, which empowers the acquisition enterprise through innovative tools, information systems, and decision support capabilities. The benefits can be enormous; each 1 percent increase in reuse of S&T, elimination of inefficient redundancy and increased community interaction, results in a more capable military and gives the DoD the opportunity to redirect >$100 Million. DTIC is uniquely positioned to support and unleash the value of DoD’s R&D portfolio.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 001_0605801KA_6_0400_PB_2016
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