81 FR 37583 - Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 112 (June 10, 2016)

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FR Document2016-13718

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.

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[FR Doc No: 2016-13718]


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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 21, 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 M2. 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 Designated Federal Officer and the Department of Defense, the

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Government-Industry Advisory Panel was unable to provide public 
notification of its meeting of June 21, 2016, as required by 41 CFR 
102-3.150(a). 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 second 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 second meeting will include 
the following: (1) Issues or concerns of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321; (2) 
Implementing DFARS regulations (Subparts 227.71 and .72, and associated 
clauses); (3) Discussions on DoD's policy and guidance on Intellectual 
Property (IP) strategy and management; (4) Discussions on DoD personnel 
preparation for implementation of DoD's IP policy and guidance; (5) 
Discussion of regulation of extending and adapting the scheme of 10 
U.S.C. 2320 and 2321 to apply to computer software; (6) 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) Discussions on practices used by DoD in acquiring IP from 
non-traditional contractors, commercial contractors, and traditional 
contractors; (8) 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 for follow-on meeting.
    Availability of Materials for the Meeting: A copy of the agenda or 
any updates to the agenda for the June 21, 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 
16) 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 21. 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 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

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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 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: June 6, 2016.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2016-13718 Filed 6-9-16; 8:45 am]
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SectionNotices
ActionFederal advisory committee meeting notice.
DatesThe meeting will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21, 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.
ContactLTC Andrew Lunoff, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3090, email: [email protected], phone: 571-256-9004.
FR Citation81 FR 37583 

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