[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 194 (Tuesday, October 10, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46970-46972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-21768]


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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.

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DATES: The meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on 
Wednesday and Thursday, October 25 and 26, 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.

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 Peter Nash, email: [email protected], 
phone: 703-693-5111.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    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-second 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 October 25-26 meeting 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 (October 
20) prior to the start of the meeting. 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 October 25-26. 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

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(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 4, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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