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Defense Technical Information Center
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is a repository of scientific and technical documents for the United States Department of Defense. According to the organization, DTIC "serves the DoD community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today"[1]. DTIC's documents are available to DoD personnel and defense contractors, with unclassified documents also available to the public. The agency is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
History
R. Paul Ryan, current DTIC Administrator The Air Documents Research Center (ADRC) was established in 1944[2][3] in London, England with the mission of collecting German Air Documents[4]. The organization classified German documents into one of three types ? those that would assist in the war on the Pacific front, documents of immediate intelligence interests to the United States or British forces, and documents of interest for future research[4]. Among the goals of this organization was the production of a card index of German documents that would be distributed to American and British forces[4]. A glossary of German-English terms related to science and engineering was also compiled[4]. In 1945, the Air Documents Division of the Air Force was formed in Dayton, Ohio[2]. The mission of this new organization was to catalog fifteen hundred tons of documents retrieved from Germany[2]. In 1948, this agency was designated to serve all military organizations and contractors, which also resulted in a change of name to Central Air Documents Office[2]. After various name and missing changes, the organization became the Armed Services Technical Information Agency (ASTIA) in 1951[2].
A summarized version of the history of DTIC is available from the organization.[5]. DTIC ServicesScientific and Technical Information NetworkThe Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) is a database that contains citations and often the full text for various defense-related research reports[6]. STINET contains reports on a topics ranging from science and engineering to the behavioral and social sciences from all of the United States military schools, the General Accounting Office, Department of Defense Inspector General, RAND Corporation, and others[6]. There are various levels of access to STINET[6]. The public STINET is available to the general public and contains only unclassified documents with an unlimited distribution. This can be browsed through the STINET website (see external links). A private STINET, limited has a private URL and allows for searches to be made to unclassified material with limited distribution. The classified STINETcontains Confidential and Secret documents, in addition to the unclassified material. Finally, there is a STINET DVD that contains citations only for all unclassified, confidential, and secret documents. All levels of STINET access contain material from the 1900s to present. Information Analysis CentersDTIC Information Analysis Centers, or IACs, are organizations that are charted by the DoD and operated by DTIC with the mission of helping researchers, engineers, scientists, and program managers[7]. IACs provide free answers to simple questions and projects, while also allowing their services to be utilized for extended projects and Technical Area Tasks (TATs)[7]. There are IACs that can provide information on a number of topics of interest to the DoD[8]. Through these various IACs, DoD research documents can be accessed. Current IACsCurrently, there are 19 IACs, 10 are DoD sponsored and 9 are military sponsored[9]. DoD Sponsored IACs
Military-Sponsored IACs
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