BENEFITS OF CONTRIBUTING
DOD Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP)
PRODUCTS TO DTIC

A one-stop shop for easy access and retrieval of DoD Scientific and Technical Informati on (STI)
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Why establish a STIP program?  The reasons for doing so are the same today as those stated in the 1951 Secretary of Defense Memorandum and Directive:

"The end product of all Department of Defense sponsored research and development -- i.e., the rec orded conclusions -- costing vast sums of money and irreplaceable scientific effort, must be assembled, organized, preserved, and made available for future reference by those concerned with exploring and guarding the scientific frontiers of the Natio n."

And is currently required by DoD Directive 3200.12, "DoD Scientific and Technical Information Prog ram (STIP)"

An opportunity to:

Save Resources While Accessing Information-Today and Tomorrow

  1. Save agency and taxpayer money by reducing costs for:


    • bibliographic records/metadata creation storage, printing, and distribution of co pies
    • maintaining access to documents on Web sites
    • responding to customer requests for documents

  2. Provide:


    • long-term 24/7 access, preservation, storage and retrieval
    • offsite backup and disaster storage
    • migration to new formats and platforms when technologies change.

  3. Ensure preservation and availability of work over the long-term if Web sites and documents disappear when authors leave or agencies reorganize or realign.


  4. Enable better, more cost-effective decisions on where to spend technology dollars.

Save Time-Have DTIC Conduct Secondary Dissemination

  1. Reduce the burden on legal or security staff by maintaining a tracking and audit trail fo r limited and classified documents and by filtering requests for release of documents to those outside the secondary distribu tion audience.


  2. Facilitate sharing, while safeguarding national security, through a multi-level secure sy stem for controlled dissemination through the Internet, NIPRNET and SIPRNET.


  3. Provide new documents and newly digitized documents free to authorized users.


  4. Assign persistent unique identifiers \226(http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/stresources/techreport s/dticSearchTools/handleservice.html) to public release documents.


  5. Announce and disseminate public release information through search engines such as Google and OCLC's Worldcat, in addition to libraries, government and commercial abstracting & indexing services.


  6. Promote recognition, credit, and attribution of sponsors, producers, and personal authors within DoD and the science community.


  7. Comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act by providing public release documents to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).

Implement Best Practices

  1. Comply with DoD Directive 3200.12, \223DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program ( STIP)\224
  2. Quantify and document specific R&D initiatives and efforts for the DoD corporate memory.< /li>
  3. Track and link related work for a DoD project, program or technology.
  4. Share and transfer results within the DoD community.
  5. Leverage results to maximize R&D dollars.
  6. Eliminate duplication of effort.
  7. Facilitate intellectual property management of federally-funded public domain and governm ent purpose rights works.

 

Real advantages...not just regulations!!