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. Over the past several years, DTIC has evolved to an information delivery house, that through use of the internet, can deliver technical information nearly instantaneously to all DoD users. DTIC also operates DoD Information Analysis Centers (IACs) focused on Defense Systems, Cyber Security and Information Systems, and Homeland Defense and Security. DTIC captures, preserves, protects, shares research and development (R&D) information assets, and encourages collaboration to connect user communities. DTIC seeks to provide a department level mapping of R&D activity. This activity and its results advance research by providing researchers, warfighters, research and engineering (R&E) management, and decision makers with insight into current and past research conducted, highlighting progress made and by whom, and, just as important, where research leads to dead ends. As new capability needs are identified, technical challenges arise--rather than starting anew--work can pick up from the point of most recent results. Through the preservation and sharing of the results of billions of dollars of past DoD investment, DTIC increases the return on past investments and accelerates current efforts. Through its collaboration tools and outreach to the R&E community, DTIC works to connect researchers across the lab enterprise, to include research and engineering, warfighters and DoD’s industry partners. DTIC operations focus on five key areas: 1) Document and preserve what works, what has promise (for reuse and additional investments). 2) Provide results that identify 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 to meet warfighter needs). 4) Present overarching picture of research investment that enables decision-makers to link multiple efforts with integrated capabilities (employ resources to highest priority efforts and coordinate efforts across Services). 5) Protect intellectual property (IP) and industry proprietary data assets entrusted to DTIC’s stewardship (protect information access). DTIC recognizes the need to accomplish its mission while increasing the value of the services and products we provide in an environment of Department-wide budget reductions. DTIC has reduced its physical footprint, civilian personnel and contract support; restructured the IAC program; and continues to consolidate its data center. At the same time, DTIC has taken on additional programs, to include its new role in leading the Department in efforts to provide public access to DoD-funded journal articles and research data and increased outreach to industry through the Defense Innovation Marketplace. DTIC continues to ensure its 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. The results of these efforts are a national asset that DTIC must preserve for reuse across the acquisition enterprise. Approximately 23 percent of the four 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. DTIC’s Information Analysis Center (IAC) Program Office provides core funding, management and oversight of its three IACs. The IACs are chartered by DoD to collect, analyze, and disseminate worldwide scientific and technical information in specialized fields. The IAC program just completed a multi-year restructuring from ten IACs to the current three, reducing customer costs and incorporating 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 have been 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 nearly $2.0 Billion 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 (HR), financial management, contracting, IT security and communications, and civilian payroll services from expert and efficient DoD 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 HR services; Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) communications and IT security services; 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, 2016
- Source ID
- 0605801KA_6_0400_PB_2016
- Change Summary Explanation
- Specific changes to the FY 2016 program (net increase of $0.986 Million from the FY 2015 funding level; $3.581 Million from the previous PB Base) are outlined below: FY 2016 Program Change: The funding increase eliminates a one year dip in DTIC funding, leveling FY 2016 with FY 2015 and 2017 programs. This change represents a departmental restoration of DTIC mission funding. The FY 2016 funding increase directly provides for the following efforts: - The Department’s activities associated with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for public access and open digital data for research efforts. OSTP policy requires increased public access to the results of federally funded scientific research, including peer reviewed journal articles and digitally formatted scientific data. The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is the lead agency for DoD’s implementation and compliance. - On-going DTIC activities--that would otherwise be suspended--needed for DTIC to meet DoD information technology security and identity management requirements, as well as efforts to expand content available to warfighters and other DTIC users on secured networks. Public Access: The Department’s efforts associated with public access and open digital data provides for a broader collection of technical data, improving access and availability for both DoD and public users. The scope of the public access initiative expands beyond DTIC’s current mission areas (Budget Activities 6.1 to 6.3) to cover all research performed in the Department. This government-wide effort encourages further reuse of technical data, and is expected to drive innovation, efficiencies and cost savings to users. Additional funding in support of the public access & digital data initiative will provide for the following activities: - DTIC will increase its public access services (services that had been slated for curtailment as a result of previous budget reductions), enhance our research in progress summary database, collect and store manuscripts of peer reviewed journal articles, and develop tools to link public users to journal articles and relevant digital data. - It is critical for DTIC to bolster its IT systems and infrastructure supporting the central repository for scientific and technical data. New automated processes will allow for efficient processing and placing of up to 40,000 additional journal articles online per year, a tenfold increase over the current volume, providing access to DoD and public users. - Establish a compliance system and process linking DoD resources to research, enabling DITC to track and collect all results generated from grants, contracts and in-house work, to include work published in peer-reviewed journal articles.
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Technical Information Center
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Technical Information Center
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