March -April 2006 A PUBLICATION OF THE Some photos appearing in this publication may be digitally enhanced. Vol XXXV, No.2, DAU 189 2 21 R. Paul Ryan F-14 Program Builds The Defense Technical Business Bridge to Information Center Poland collects and distributes Chuck Wagner information to the Polish aerospace defense community company PZL's and the public, and construction of the supports hundreds of transmitter bay access DoD Web sites. The panel on the F-14 DTIC administrator Tomcat's fuselage is explains how increas- the first time the U.S. ing digitization has Navy has acquired a affected and will major aircraft part continue to affect from a former East operations at DTIC. Block country. 10 24 America’s Imprudent FIST: Fast, Inexpen- and Unsustainable sive, Simple, Tiny Fiscal Path Dan Ward, Chris Quaid, David Walker Gabe Mounce, and Jim In a hard-hitting Elmore analysis, the U.S. When Defense AT&L comptroller general learned that the warns that current graphic novel Persepo- fiscal policies have the lis is required reading nation on a dangerous at Westpoint, we knew downward slope. He it was time for us to challenges government present the AT&L to wake up and take community with its action or risk “mort- first-ever graphic gaging our kids’ and article. grandkids’ futures.” 18 26 The V-22 Program Buying American: Jeanette Aley The Berry Amendment V-22 Obsolescence Jan Ferguson Management Team The Berry Amendment proactively manages to the Buy American and mitigates obsoles- Act is relatively un- cence problems in the familiar and often weapon systems to violated. 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Paul Ryan, Defense Technical Information Center Administrator he Defense Technical Information Center collects activity, aligned with the director, defense research and and distributes authoritative scientific, research, engineering (DDR&E), in the Office of the Under Secre- and engineering information to the defense com- tary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics). munity. Administrator R. Paul Ryan has overseen Two questions: What impact has this realignment had on operations at DTIC as it has become increasingly operations at DTIC? And how has it altered the pace of Tdigitized and far-reaching, and he has managed the es- daily operations or the scope of work conducted at DTIC? tablishment of DTIC as an independent field activity that supports hundreds of Department of Defense Web sites A and is now refining new research portals. It has impacted our operations significantly. We have al- ways described our mission as unique within the Depart- In December 2005, Dr. Edward Fishpaw, deputy director ment. We are the only organization that broadly collects of the Defense Acquisition University’s David A. Acker Li- DoD-wide scientific and technical information; therefore, brary, interviewed Ryan about the work going on at DTIC we frequently considered that we ought to be a stand-alone to provide DoD with access to the most complete repos- organization. When it became clear that we were going to itory of defense-related research and information, and transfer back to DDR&E in 2004, I took the opportunity to on how DTIC is reaching out to its customers all over the seek permission to get DTIC established as a field activity. world. We got all of the i’s dotted and t’s crossed that we needed to with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the de- Q cision was made that when we transferred back to DDR&E In June 2004, DTIC was transferred from the Defense In- and the AT&L community and went through all the nec- formation Systems Agency and established as a DoD field essary approval levels, we’d become a field activity. Defense AT&L: March-April 2006 2 Photographs by SPC Michael Lindell, USA. That was crucial for a couple of reasons. When we were goal is to get as much information as possible. We want with other organizations, there was always the possi- access to journal articles here at DTIC. When people get bility of conflict between the parent organization’s mis- them from us, they’re free; if they have to go out and pur- sion and our mission. I fully understand a parent orga- chase the information somewhere else, it is an additional nization’s mission superseding ours—if I were the cost for the Department—and in the area of funds, no director of that organization, I would probably make one is anxious to spend extra money. the same decision—but it didn’t always help DTIC. Get- ting established as an independent activity removed Q the issue. In April 2005, DTIC and DDR&E launched the R&E—Re- search & Engineering—Portal. Purported to be more pow- In addition, we were going to work directly for the office erful than Google™, this portal provides one-stop access that was the primary beneficiary of a central repository to DoD research and engineering information. Who is for scientific data. Dr. [Ronald] Sega, who was then served by this portal? How has it been received? DDR&E, took the steps to acquire us back. His vision was to have a single place within the Department where some- A body who is working in a particular area or on a partic- Let me explain the R&E portal. It is actually the mecha- ular subject can go to find out who’s doing what, what nism to bring as much information together in one spot we’ve done in the past, what’s going on right now, and as can be done. It’s something that has been pushed by what has been written on the subject—as opposed to DDR&E since we transferred back.