[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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