[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70400-70401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24570]


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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: 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 
Thursday, October 27, 2016. Public registration will begin at 8:45 a.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 B2. 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:
    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 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 eighth meeting of the Government-Industry 
Advisory Panel with a series of meetings planned through December 14, 
2016. 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 discussions and deliberations on 10 U.S.C. 2320 
and 2321 tension points; (2) Briefing from software related government 
program manager; (3) Review of update to Congressional law compendium; 
(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 October 27, 2016 meeting will be 
available as requested or at the following site: https://database.faca.gov/committee/meetings.aspx?cid=2561. Minor changes to 
the agenda will be announced at the

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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 (October 
24) 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 8:30 a.m. 
on October 27. 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 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 5, 2016.
Patricia L. Toppings,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2016-24570 Filed 10-11-16; 8:45 am]
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