[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49355-49356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-23189]
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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 DoD 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, November 15 and 16, 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.
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 Robert McDonald, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3600 Defense Pentagon,
Washington, DC 20301-3600, email: Robert.L.McDonald.mil@mail.mil">Robert.L.McDonald.mil@mail.mil,
phone: 571-256-9006 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 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 twenty-second 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 November 15 and 16 meeting will be
available as requested or at the following site: https://www.facadatabase.gov/committee/committee.aspx?cid=2561&aid=41. 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
(November 9) prior to the start of the meeting. All members of the
public must contact LTC McDonald 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 November 15 and 16. 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
McDonald, the committee DFO, or Mr.
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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 McDonald, 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
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: October 20, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2017-23189 Filed 10-24-17; 8:45 am]
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