[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 100 (Thursday, May 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24109-24111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10707]
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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 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Wednesday and Thursday, June 14 and 15, 2017. Public registration will
begin at 8:45 a.m. on each day. 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.
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The panel will also hold a teleconference meeting with the same
agenda to prepare for future meetings from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Teleconference and
direct connect information will be provided by the Designated Federal
Officer and support staff at the contact information in this notice.
ADDRESSES: Pentagon Library, Washington Headquarters Services, 1155
Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1155. The meeting room will be
displayed on the information screen for both days. 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 or Peter Nash, email: [email protected], phone:
703-693-5111.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Meetings: 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 seventeenth meeting of the Government-
Industry Advisory Panel and continued recurring teleconference
meetings. The panel will cover details of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321,
begin understanding the implementing regulations and detail 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 this meeting
will include the following: (1) Final review of tension point
information papers; (2) Rewrite FY17 NDAA 2320 and 2321 language; (3)
Review Report Framework and Format for Publishing; (4) Comment
Adjudication & Planning for follow-on meeting.
Availability of Materials for the Meeting: A copy of the agenda or
any updates to the agenda for the June 14-15 and 21 meetings will be
available as requested or at the following site: https://database.faca.gov/committee/meetings.aspx?cid=2561. It will also be
distributed upon request.
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 9)
prior to the start of the meeting. All members of the public must
contact LTC Lunoff or Mr. Nash 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 8:30
a.m. on June 14-15. 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, or Mr. Nash
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 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
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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 30-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 five (5) minutes during this
period, and will be invited to speak in the order in which their
requests were received by the DFO.
Dated: May 22, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2017-10707 Filed 5-24-17; 8:45 am]
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