82 FR 61274 - Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 247 (December 27, 2017)

Page Range61274-61275
FR Document2017-27842

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.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 247 (Wednesday, December 27, 2017)
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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, January 10 and 11, and February 14 and 15, 
2018. 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 LTC David Wollman, email: 
David.J.Wollman.mil@mail.mil">David.J.Wollman.mil@mail.mil, phone: 703-693-5962.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Purpose of the Meetings: This meeting is being held under the 
provisions of the

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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 twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth 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 January 10-11 and February 14-15 
meetings 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 (January 
10 and February 14) prior to the start of the meeting. All members of 
the public must contact LTC McDonald or LTC Wollman 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 January 10-11 and February 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 McDonald, the committee DFO, or LTC 
Wollman 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 and LTC 
Wollman, 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: December 20, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2017-27842 Filed 12-26-17; 8:45 am]
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ActionFederal advisory committee meeting notice.
DatesThe meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, January 10 and 11, and February 14 and 15, 2018. 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.
ContactLTC Robert McDonald, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3600 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3600, email: [email protected], phone: 571-256-9006 or LTC David Wollman, email: [email protected], phone: 703-693-5962.
FR Citation82 FR 61274 

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