The Information Business: A Profile of the Defense Technical Information Center
Abstract
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) collects and distributes authoritative Department of Defense (DoD) scientific, research, and engineering information to the defense community. Through a major portion of the 1990s, DTIC was part of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition) (OUSD/A). A DoD reorganization in 1998 transferred DTIC to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In 2004, DTIC returned to the acquisition, technology, and logistics community. Now a DoD field activity, DTIC is one of several organizations whose work reaches across all segments of the Department. DTIC reports to Dr. Ronald Sega, Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E). Dr. Sega calls DTIC the "DoD technical information broker" that will play a vital role in DDR&E's mission. In his view, technology is critical to DoD transformation. He would like to see every DoD researcher, acquisition professional, tester and/or operator sit down at the computer and find out what the DoD is doing in research, why we are doing the work, when it will be completed, and who knows more about this information. This article provides an overview of DTIC's organization and customers as well as descriptions of the Information Analysis Centers (IACs), DTIC's web expertise, information products (e.g., databases) and services, the information classification process, DTIC's sources of information, and customer support and training.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA433957
Entities
People
- Sandy Schwalb
Organizations
- Defense Technical Information Center