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DTIC Established as DoD Field Activity In a Decision Memorandum signed June 4, 2004, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, announced his determination to establish the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) as a DoD Field Activity. DTIC will be under the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) and will report to the Director, Defense Research & Engineering (DDR&E), Dr. Ronald Sega. In promoting this organizational realignment in the DoD, the DDR&E has stated this action will enhance the use of DTIC scientific and technical information databases by all DoD research and engineering activities. In response to the announced decision, Mr. Kurt Molholm, the DTIC Administrator, said: "I consider this a business process transformation action, moving DTIC back to the primary functional community it's chartered to support." In pursuing this course of action for DTIC, Dr. Sega has outlined several
goals for the organization that are designed to focus DTIC on meeting
the overall objective. They are: DTIC is known for several core missions. It is the central collection
and dissemination point for DoD's scientific reports with over 2 million
collected since its inception in World War II and an annual acquisition
of over 25-30,000 new reports. Ongoing and planned R&D project information
is garnered from both the DoD community and industry.
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DTIC may not be able to respond to inquiries not appropriate to its mission. |