[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 164 (Friday, August 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40573-40575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18089]


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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 meetings will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on 
Wednesday and Thursday, September 6 and 7, 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.
    Teleconference and direct connect information will be provided by 
the Designated Federal Officer and support staff at the contact 
information in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

ADDRESSES: Pentagon Library, Washington Headquarters Services,

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1155 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1155. The meeting room will 
be displayed on the information screen for both days. The Pentagon 
Library and Conference Center (PLC2) is located across the Corridor 8 
Bridge.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC Robert L. McDonald Jr., Office of 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 Defense 
Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3090, email: 
Robert.L.McDonald.mil@mail.mil">Robert.L.McDonald.mil@mail.mil, phone: 703-614-3811 or Peter Nash, 
email: [email protected], phone: 703-693-5111.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to circumstances beyond the control of 
the Designated Federal Officer and the Department of Defense, the 
Government-Industry Advisory Panel was unable to provide public 
notification concerning its meeting on September 6 through 7, 2017, 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 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 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 twentieth 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 September 6 and 7, 2017 meeting will 
be available as requested or at the following site: https://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, the meetings are open to the public. 
Registration of members of the public who wish to attend the meetings 
will begin upon publication of this meeting notice and end three 
business days (September 3) prior to the start of the meetings. 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 September 6 and 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 McDonald, the committee DFO, or Mr. 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

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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: August 22, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2017-18089 Filed 8-24-17; 8:45 am]
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