Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)
Federal Register Volume 81, Number 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)
Notices
Pages 33494-33496
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov
FR Doc No: 2016-12377
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Federal advisory committee meeting notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Government-Industry Advisory Panel. This meeting is open to the public.
DATES: The meeting will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Public registration will begin at 12:30 p.m. For entrance into the meeting, you must meet the necessary requirements for entrance into the Pentagon. For more detailed information, please see the following link: http://www.pfpa.mil/access.html.
ADDRESSES: Pentagon Library, Washington Headquarters Services, 1155 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1155. The meeting will be held in Room B7. The Pentagon Library is located in the Pentagon Library and Conference Center (PLC2) across the Corridor 8 bridge.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC Andrew Lunoff, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3090, email: andrew.s.lunoff.mil@mail.mil">andrew.s.lunoff.mil@mail.mil, phone: 571-256-9004.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to circumstances beyond the control of the
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Designated Federal Officer and the Department of Defense, the Government-Industry Advisory Panel is unable to provide public notification, as required by 41 CFR 102-3.150(a), for its meeting on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Accordingly, the Advisory Committee Management Officer for the Department of Defense, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150(b), waives the 15-calendar day notification requirement.
Purpose of the Meeting: This meeting is being held under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA) (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150. The Government-
Industry Advisory Panel will review sections 2320 and 2321 of title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.), regarding rights in technical data and the validation of proprietary data restrictions and the regulations implementing such sections, for the purpose of ensuring that such statutory and regulatory requirements are best structured to serve the interest of the taxpayers and the national defense. The scope of the panel is as follows: (1) Ensuring that the Department of Defense (DoD) does not pay more than once for the same work, (2) Ensuring that the DoD contractors are appropriately rewarded for their innovation and invention, (3) Providing for cost-effective reprocurement, sustainment, modification, and upgrades to the DoD systems, (4) Encouraging the private sector to invest in new products, technologies, and processes relevant to the missions of the DoD, and (5) Ensuring that the DoD has appropriate access to innovative products, technologies, and processes developed by the private sector for commercial use.
Agenda: This will be the first meeting of the Government-Industry Advisory Panel with a series of meetings planned through September 1, 2016. The panel will cover details of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321, begin understanding the implementing regulations and detailed the necessary groups within the private sector and government to provide supporting documentation for their review of these codes and regulations during follow-on meetings. Agenda items for the first meeting will include the following: (1) Planning/initial discussions on issues or concerns of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321; (2) Planning/initial discussions on implementing DFARS regulations (Subparts 227.71 and .72, and associated clauses); (3) Planning/initial discussions on DoD's policy and guidance on Intellectual Property (IP) strategy and management; (4) Planning/
initial discussions on DoD personnel preparation for implementation of DoD's IP policy and guidance; (5) Planning/initial discussion of regulation of extending and adapting the scheme of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321 to apply to computer software; (6) Planning/initial discussion on applicability of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321, and implementing DFARS requirements and clauses, to contracts and subcontracts for commercial items; (7) Planning/initial discussions on practices used by DoD in acquiring IP from non-traditional contractors, commercial contractors, and traditional contractors; (8) Planning/initial discussion on DoD's policy, guidance and practices linking technical data management and other IP considerations with open systems architecture (OSA) and/or modular open systems approaches (MOSA); (9) Planning/initial discussions on sections 1701 and 1705 of House Armed Services Committee markup of H.R. 4909, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017; (10) Planning for follow-on meeting.
A request for information will be sent to the public attempting to check on IP guiding principles, training curriculum used by DoD, current approach in regulation (DFARS 227.71 and 227.72), practices used by DoD in acquiring IP and any citations to current regulations and law.
Availability of Materials for the Meeting: A copy of the agenda or any updates to the agenda for the June 7, 2016 meeting will be available as requested or at the following site: http://www.facadatabase.gov/committee/meetings.aspx?cid=2561.
Minor changes to the agenda will be announced at the meeting. All materials will be posted to the FACA database after the meeting.
Public Accessibility to the Meeting: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR 102-3.140 through 102-3.165, and subject to the availability of space, this meeting is open to the public. Registration of members of the public who wish to attend the meeting will begin upon publication of this meeting notice and end three business days (June 2) prior to the start of the meeting. All members of the public must contact LTC Lunoff at the phone number or email listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to make arrangements for Pentagon escort, if necessary. Public attendees should arrive at the Pentagon's Visitor's Center, located near the Pentagon Metro Station's south exit and adjacent to the Pentagon Transit Center bus terminal with sufficient time to complete security screening no later than 12:30 p.m. on June 7. To complete security screening, please come prepared to present two forms of identification of which one must be a pictured identification card. Government and military DoD CAC holders are not required to have an escort, but are still required to pass through the Visitor's Center to gain access to the Building. Seating is limited and is on a first-to-arrive basis. Attendees will be asked to provide their name, title, affiliation, and contact information to include email address and daytime telephone number to the Designated Federal Officer (DFO) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. Any interested person may attend the meeting, file written comments or statements with the committee, or make verbal comments from the floor during the public meeting, at the times, and in the manner, permitted by the committee.
Special Accommodations: The meeting venue is fully handicap accessible, with wheelchair access.
Individuals requiring special accommodations to access the public meeting or seeking additional information about public access procedures, should contact LTC Lunoff, the committee DFO, at the email address or telephone number listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section, at least five (5) business days prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
Written Comments or Statements: Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140 and section 10(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the public or interested organizations may submit written comments or statements to the Government-Industry Advisory Panel about its mission and/or the topics to be addressed in this public meeting. Written comments or statements should be submitted to LTC Lunoff, the committee DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred mode of submission, at the email address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section in the following formats: Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. The comment or statement must include the author's name, title, affiliation, address, and daytime telephone number. Written comments or statements being submitted in response to the agenda set forth in this notice must be received by the committee DFO at least five (5) business days prior to the meeting so that they may be made available to the Government-
Industry Advisory Panel for its consideration prior to the meeting. Written comments or statements received after this date may not be provided to the panel until its next meeting. Please note that
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because the panel operates under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, all written comments will be treated as public documents and will be made available for public inspection.
Verbal Comments: Members of the public will be permitted to make verbal comments during the meeting only at the time and in the manner allowed herein. If a member of the public is interested in making a verbal comment at the open meeting, that individual must submit a request, with a brief statement of the subject matter to be addressed by the comment, at least three (3) business days in advance to the committee DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred mode of submission, at the email address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. The committee DFO will log each request to make a comment, in the order received, and determine whether the subject matter of each comment is relevant to the panel's mission and/or the topics to be addressed in this public meeting. A 15-minute period near the end of the meeting will be available for verbal public comments. Members of the public who have requested to make a verbal comment and whose comments have been deemed relevant under the process described in this paragraph, will be allotted no more than three (3) minutes during this period, and will be invited to speak in the order in which their requests were received by the DFO.
Dated: May 20, 2016.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
FR Doc. 2016-12377 Filed 5-25-16; 8:45 am
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