Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support: Rights in Technical Data

Abstract

When Dod contracts with a supplier to buy a product, or to have a product developed, the contract calls for delivery of some amount of information needed to install, use, maintain, and support the product. Such information is known as 'technical data.' In the past, technical data have been delivered primarily in paper form (or equivalent microfilm images), often running to thousands of pages for major items. Now, however, DoD is implementing the Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support (CALS) concept of computerized delivery and use of technical data. CALS has the potential for delivering great benefits to DoD. But there are serious technical data issues that threaten CALS implementation. DoD's contract with the supplier specifies how much and what kinds of technical data the supplier must create and deliver to DoD. The contract also determines what uses DoD can make of the data. DoD's contractual right to use technical data for certain broad categories of purposes is known as its 'rights in (the) technical data.'

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA260785

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  • Philip W. Clark
  • William G. Stewart Ii

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