Defense Technical Information Center
Abstract
The Defense Technical Information Center’s (DTIC) unique mission is to provide rapid, accurate, and reliable access to essential research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) information, supporting all DoD users. DTIC, a DoD Field Activity, is the DoD’s singular executive agent and designated source for DoD-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and industry-related information. DTIC operates DoD Information Analysis Centers focused on Defense Systems, Cyber Security, and Homeland Defense and Security. DTIC captures, preserves, protects, and shares research and development (R&D) information assets and connects communities. These activities and results advance research by providing department level mapping of activities and results to researchers, warfighters, research and engineering (R&E) management, and decision makers. DTIC manages this mapping through five key areas: 1) Document and preserve what works, what has promise (reuse and additional investments). 2) Determine dead-ends that do not merit additional investment (avoid waste). 3) Facilitate and encourage engagement among cross-cutting Communities of Interest (bring together experts across the Acquisition Enterprise and warfighter community driving requirements). 4) Present overarching picture of activity that optimizes decision-makers’ ability to coordinate and orchestrate multiple efforts into integrated capabilities (employ assets to highest priority efforts and coordinate efforts across services). 5) Protect intellectual property (IP) and industry proprietary data assets entrusted to DTIC’s stewardship (access to those DoD trusts, protection from those we don’t). DTIC must accomplish its mission in an environment of Department-wide budget reductions while increasing our value. DTIC is leading the Department in efforts to provide Open Access to DoD funded journal articles and research data. We must ensure our activities are efficient and effective, meet users’ expectations, and employ industry best practices and standards, while protecting from cyber threats. DoD’s $120 Billion annual investment in research, development and procurement, support current and future capabilities to defeat our adversaries and protect national security. The results of these efforts are a national asset that DTIC preserves and facilitates their reuse across the Acquisition Enterprise. Approximately 21% of the 4 million records in DTIC’s information holdings are sensitive DoD only, federal government only and industry proprietary. DTIC is the only enterprise source for both publicly accessible and DoD sensitive material in a single location. The Information Analysis Center (IAC) Program Office at DTIC provides core funding, management and oversight of the IACs. The IACs are chartered by DoD to collect, analyze, and disseminate worldwide scientific and technical information in specialized fields. The IAC program is in a multi-year restructuring from ten IACs to three, reducing customer costs and reflecting new DoD technical interest areas. The new structure will focus on three technology groupings, to include Cyber Security and Information Systems, Homeland Defense and Security, and Defense Systems. As part of the Department’s Better Buying Power initiative, new multi-award contracts are being put into place, improving competition, small-business presence, and reducing government costs. The restructured IAC Program will improve affordability, productivity, and standardization within defense acquisition programs. Providing the Acquisition Enterprise access to thousands of industry Subject Matter Experts, DTIC’s IACs perform well over a billion dollars of customer funded research and prototyping support annually. The results of the work are a rich source of material in DTIC’s information asset collections and are available to users across the Department (and other federal agencies, e.g. Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security). This Program Element (PE) supports DTIC mission operations. DTIC focuses on core mission, and buys space, Human Resources, Financial Management, and civilian payroll services from expert and efficient providers: funding provides for salaries and benefits of government civilian personnel assigned to DTIC; training, professional development, and travel for DTIC personnel; support agreements for Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) facility-related services; Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) financial activities and Human Resource (HR) services; Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) communications support; annual maintenance and licensing requirements; supplies, equipment, hardware/software; and support contracts for Information Technology services, Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) system integration, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act compliance efforts in concert with the Department’s Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) program. In addition, this PE provides funding in support of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, in accordance with Public Law 111-251 (Small Business Reauthorization Act) and Small Business Technology Transfer Program Reauthorization Act. Within the PE, an annual set-aside contribution totaling approximately $400,000 is provided to the DoD's Commercialization Pilot Program, as directed by the Department's Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP).
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 0605801KA_6_0400_PB_2015
- Change Summary Explanation
- Specific changes to the FY 2015 program (net reduction of $4.788 Million from the previous PB) are outlined below: Program Changes (-$4.788 Million): This program change represents the results of the Department’s Fiscal Guidance, and reflects the Defense Strategic Guidance (DSG), as informed by the Strategic Choices and Management Review (SCMR). - Restructure Information Analysis Center (IAC) contract to create efficiencies and reduce costs to both DTIC and IAC customers. - Curtail operating activities across the enterprise, and defer modernization and development of DTIC tools and applications slated for DTIC’s various user communities. - Reorganize the web-hosting program. Reduce DTIC appropriated funding support to necessary oversight activities, and pass all other web-hosting direct costs (to the extent allowed) to the customer organization. DTIC will work with customers in their transition from the DTIC web-hosting environment, and assist them in the migration to other approved facilities. During this divestiture process, DTIC’s appropriated support will be limited to less than $500,000. - Reduce DTIC HQ Management staff by 22 percent in FY 2015. - Adjust Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans and investments in light of the Data Center Consolidation initiative and the Department’s cloud services initiative. - Work to meet the Department’s audit readiness milestones while assuming additional program risk in FY 2015.
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Technical Information Center
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Technical Information Center
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