Defense Technical Information Center
Abstract
The Defense Technical Information Center’s (DTIC) unique mission is to propel development of future generations of Warfighter capabilities through broad sharing of DoD’s research, innovations, and advances. The DoD’s investment in Science and Technology (S&T) is the basis of future warfighter capability. By capturing the results of today’s research and providing outlets for wide dissemination, DTIC increases the return on S&T investment. The funds requested in this program support DTIC efforts to aggressively transform distribution, enhance collection, perform initial analysis on content, and support management of research data sets. As the DoD RDT&E knowledge center, DTIC works across the Services and agencies to provide insight and awareness to all users: - Visibility across Service and agency research activity for all users. - Avoids the cost of redundant and potentially siloed Service systems. - Comprehensive knowledge base enhances the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). - Drives research-focused, cross-component collaboration. DTIC delivers a knowledge base of more than 4.6 Million information records to increase collaboration and cooperation within the DoD, with our industry partners, academia, inter-agency working groups, and citizen scientists. For 75 years, DTIC has been providing research results, lessons learned, where work is being performed and progress made. DTIC, a DoD Field Activity under the authority, direction and control of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), is the DoD’s executive agent and sole central source for DoD-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and industry-related information. DTIC develops and delivers information and services to share knowledge and enhance decision making. This Program Element (PE) provides for DTIC mission operations, which are focused on three core efforts: Collection, Dissemination, and Information Analysis Centers (IACs): 1) Acquire and prepare results of DoD’s multi-billion annual investment as a foundation for future activity. Enable the community to build upon past work to avoid costly and time-delaying rework. Consolidate input systems and migrate users to electronic submission to improve quality of material and realign resources from manual processing to end user tools. 2) Enhance analysis tools to increase understanding of the S&T landscape and incorporate leading commercial analytic and search technologies to improve search results and provide users key information to provide a complete picture of activity and progress. By employing tools now accessible in the cloud, DTIC looks to move the burden and time consumption for initial analysis from the user by pre-processing and presenting information products that inform and answer questions using data drawn from multiple collections. Improve user self-service functions to refocus resources on information analysis and interrogation capabilities. 3) Operate the DoD Information Analysis Centers (IACs), which solve DoD technology challenges by providing rapid, flexible and low-cost research services. The IACs provide subject-matter experts to perform research, analysis and training, and an R&D contracting vehicle supporting PEO and PM insertion of technical innovation into systems of record. Other priority DTIC mission activities are described below: 1) Bring communities together supporting collaboration between researchers, warfighters, industry, academia, Federal agencies, and allies. 2) Ensure information is protected: easily available to trusted users, and blocked from unauthorized access. 3) Develop and manage DoD’s Science Technology Information Policy (STIP). 4) Maintain compliance with existing public law, regulations, and guidelines. 5) Continue progress on Congressionally-mandated programs, as directed within the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): - Innovators Information Repository (IIR): increase awareness of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/ Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) and other small business innovative technology capability and improve transition to systems of record. Add resources to the IIR, provide PEO’s and PM’s increased visibility on innovation. Work with the SBIR/STTR Office to identify impediments to tech transfer and work to increase the flow of information available to the acquisition community. - Global Research Watch (GRW) Program: In partnership with the Strategic Intelligence & Analysis Cell (SIAC), DTIC provides infrastructure for SIAC’s decision-quality analysis of open source information on international research programs and capabilities. Building on FY 2020 results, DTIC will tailor the hosting environment based on SIAC feedback and evaluation of accuracy and utility of analysis. - Datasets and Data Repositories: PubDefense provides links to DoD funded data sets produced in extramural research linked to published journal articles. DTIC is leading DDR&E(R&T) chartered cross-Service Research Data Working Group. In support of these mission operations, DTIC leases space and critical shared services (e.g., human resources (HR); financial management and accounting; contracting; cloud hosting; common-use IT services and security; communications; and civilian payroll services) from expert and efficient DoD and commercial service-providers. DTIC MISSION RESULTS The Department invests over $14 Billion annually in S&T needed to protect and defend our nation. DTIC preserves the fruits of these key investments for reuse across DoD. DTIC has refocused and accelerated its efforts on state of the art search, analysis, and information product delivery, DTIC collects data and provides answers to researchers seeking state-of-the-art data relevant to their projects. DTIC accelerates innovation and prevents duplication of experiments, tests, and prototyping activities by allowing researchers to discover and build on what has been done and avoid following dead-end paths. Using DTIC-created forums, researchers, Warfighters, and industry partners can also collaborate across the DoD research and engineering (R&E) enterprise. Finally, DTIC provides a department-level map of R&D activity. This map gives decision-makers insight into current and past research, highlighting where progress is being made and by whom. DTIC's Information Analysis Centers (IACs) drive innovation and technological development by anticipating and responding to the information needs of the defense and broader community. The IAC Program Management Office (IAC PMO) provides core funding, management and oversight of three IACs, which are chartered by DoD to collect, research, analyze, and disseminate S&T information in specialized fields to DoD researchers and acquisition professionals. In addition, the IAC PMO manages several multiple award contracts to make possible new research that builds on prior investments and incorporates the innovations of government, industry, and academia. For the last several years, competition inherent in the IAC model has produced savings of 10-16% under projected costs, while still delivering vetted technical expertise to address DoD’s complex challenges. Providing DoD labs and program managers’ access to thousands of industry subject matter experts, the IACs performed over $2 Billion of customer-funded research and analysis in FY 2020. The results of the work are a rich source of new material in DTIC's technical repositories and are available to users across the Department. The IAC approach was identified as a "best practice" by the Director of Defense Pricing and Contracting and the then- Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in a July 2018 memo wherein they recommended use of the IAC contracts across DoD as "vehicles of first choice." SUMMARY - DTIC actively supports the Secretary’s priorities – defending the Nation, taking care of our people, and succeeding through teamwork. - DTIC’s plans reflect a strong commitment to address congressional and DoD priorities. - Building on progress, DTIC’s focus remains on growing the knowledge base, facilitating sharing, maintaining open repositories, and developing data analytics to advance discovery and understanding. - To provide decision makers and Warfighters insight into the S&T research terrain, DTIC is adopting transformational technologies to enhance collection, distribution, analysis and research data sets.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 0605801KA_6_0400_PB_2022
- Change Summary Explanation
- Program Change: The FY 2022 Base program increase ($0.145 Million), as compared to the Previous President’s Budget FY 2022 Base, reflects a net change resulting from the following adjustments: 1)Miscellaneous adjustments related to economic assumptions, inflation, and civilian payroll pricing. FY 2022 Service Requirements Review Board (SRRB) Reduction: The FY 2022 Base program includes a $0.740 Million reduction in accordance with the Department’s recent service contract downsizing effort. The FY 2022 Base program also includes a $0.028 Million reduction attributable to Fourth Estate Information Technology (4E IT) Reform savings.
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Technical Information Center
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Technical Information Center
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