[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43751-43752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19898]


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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 4:00 p.m. on 
Wednesday and Thursday, September 20 through 21, 2017. Public 
registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. on each day. For entrance into the 
meeting, you must submit your name to the Designated Federal Officer 
(DFO) no later than September 19, 2017.
    Teleconference and direct connect information will be provided by 
the DFO and support staff at the contact information in this notice.

ADDRESSES: 1550 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202. Visitors must 
provide an ID to the receptionist, and she will provide a badge for 
entrance.

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: 571-256-9006 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 20 through 21, 2017, 
as required by 41 CFR 102-3.150(a). Accordingly, the Advisory Committee 
Management Officer for the Department

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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 twenty-first meeting of the Government-
Industry Advisory Panel, respectively. 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 20 through 21, 2017 meeting 
is 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, 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 15) 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. 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 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 
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: September 14, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2017-19898 Filed 9-18-17; 8:45 am]
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