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Readiness), Department of Defense 

Education Activity (DoDEA), 4800 Mark 

Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 22350 

ATTN: Dr. Sandra D. Embler or call 

(571) 372–6006. 

Title and OMB Control Number: 

‘‘2013 Speak Up Survey,’’ OMB Control 

Number: 0704–TBD. 

Needs and Uses: The Speak-Up 

National Survey is an annual online 

survey created and administered by 

Project Tomorrow. DoDEA will 

participate in the survey in order to 

gather information from students and 

parents of students attending DoDEA 

schools on the use of technology in 

education throughout the United States. 

The survey provides data on how these 

groups are using and would like to use 

technology for learning in and out of 

school. Broad areas of information 

gathered via the surveys include: The 

benefits of using technology for 

learning; attitudes and interest in math 

and science, as well as career 

aspirations; how respondents self-assess 

their 21st century skills competencies. 

The information gathered via the 

surveys does not currently exist, 

especially in a format that allows 

comparisons between DoDEA and 

national trends. The data resulting from 

the survey will be used by DoDEA as a 

planning tool and needs assessment. 

The information from the survey as 

compared with national trends will be 

effective in assisting DoDEA in 

providing well-planned technology 

initiatives that meet the needs of our 

military-connected students and other 

stakeholders. The data will also be used 

to plan training and professional 

development for DoDEA employees, 

especially teachers, as it will accurately 

reflect the needs of teachers and other 

staff members alike. The data are 

essential to meet the President’s charge 

in the recent technology-focused 

ConnectED initiative as well as the 

Presidential Study Directive 9: 

Strengthening Military Families, which 

states that ‘‘The Department of Defense 

commits to making DOD Education 

Activity (DODEA) schools a leader in 

the use of advanced learning 

technologies that have the potential to 

significantly improve student 

performance.’’ 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Annual Burden Hours: 431. 

Number of Respondents: 1292. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 20 

minutes. 

Frequency: Annually. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

The Project Tomorrow Speak-Up 

National Research Project will be open 

to all teachers, administrators, parents/ 

sponsors of students attending a DoDEA 

school, as well as students in grades 3– 

12. The survey does not gather 

information that would personally 

identify individuals, and participation 

in the survey is completely voluntary. 

The survey is administered through an 

online, web-based technology. The 

questions will provide all stakeholders 

with the opportunity to provide input 

on their educational use of technology 

as well as their experience with 

technology at schools. The data will be 

incorporated into goals in DoDEA’s 

currently in-process Technology Plan. 

The survey results will be used at all 

levels of the organization to improve 

programs and services offered to 

DoDEA’s students. The survey results 

will also be used as an outcome measure 

to monitor progress on the goals of the 

new Technology Plan. 

Dated: June 19, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2013–16283 Filed 7–5–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2013–OS–0026] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request: Generic Clearance 

for the Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Washington Headquarters 

Service (WHS), DOD. 

ACTION: 30-day notice of submission of 

information collection approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of an effort to 

streamline the process to seek feedback 

from the public on service delivery, 

WHS has submitted a Generic 

Information Collection Request (Generic 

ICR): ‘‘Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery ’’ to OMB for 

approval under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. 

seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

August 7, 2013. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Seehra at the Office of Management 

and Budget, Desk Officer for DoD, Room 

10236, New Executive Office Building, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Patricia Toppings. To request additional 

information please contact Ms. 

Toppings, DoD Clearance Officer, at 

WHS/ESD Information Management 

Division, 4800 Mark Center Drive, East 

Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 

22350–3100. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery 

Abstract: The information collection 

activity will garner qualitative customer 

and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 

timely manner, in accordance with the 

Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. By 

qualitative feedback we mean 

information that provides useful 

insights on perceptions and opinions, 

but are not statistical surveys that yield 

quantitative results that can be 

generalized to the population of study. 

This feedback will provide insights into 

customer or stakeholder perceptions, 

experiences and expectations, provide 

an early warning of issues with service, 

or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative and 

actionable communications between the 

Agency and its customers and 

stakeholders. It will also allow feedback 

to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but it will not yield data 

that can be generalized to the overall 

population. This type of generic 


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clearance for qualitative information 

will not be used for quantitative 

information collections that are 

designed to yield reliably actionable 

results, such as monitoring trends over 

time or documenting program 

performance. Such data uses require 

more rigorous designs that address: the 

target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

Current Actions: Extension of a 

previous information collection for 

DoD’s Interactive Customer Evaluation 

(ICE) system. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households, Businesses or Other ForProfit. 

Annual Estimates 

Expected Annual Number of 

Activities/Collections: 30,000 

Annual Number of Respondents: 

322,570 

Annual Number of Responses: 

322,570 

Frequency of Response: On Occasion 

Average Burden per Response: 4 min. 

Annual Burden Hours: 21505 

3-Year Estimates: The 3-Year ceiling 

for this Generic Collection will be: 

Total Expected Number of Activities/ 

Collections: 34,500 

Total Number of Respondents: 

967,710 

Total Number of Responses: 967,710 

Frequency of Response: On Occasion 

Average Burden per Response: 4 min. 

Total Burden Hours: 64,514 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid 

Office of Management and Budget 

Control Number. 

Dated: July 2, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2013–16269 Filed 7–5–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Meeting of the National Commission 

on the Structure of the Air Force 

AGENCY: Director of Administration and 

Management, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) of 1972 (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 

Department of Defense (DoD) announces 

that the following Federal advisory 

committee meeting of the National 

Commission on the Structure of the Air 

Force (‘‘the Commission’’) will take 

place. 

DATES: Date of Open Meeting, including 

Hearing and Commission Discussion: 

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. Registration will begin at 

8:00 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: 2521 South Clark Street, 

Suite 200, Crystal City, VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. 

Marcia Moore, Designated Federal 

Officer, National Commission on the 

Structure of the Air Force, 1950 Defense 

Pentagon, Room 3A874, Washington, 

DC 20301–1950. Email: 

dfoafstrucomm@osd.mil. Desk: (703) 

545–9113. Facsimile: (703) 692–5625. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Meeting: The members of 

the Commission will hear testimony 

from individual witnesses and then will 

discuss the information presented at the 

hearings. 

Agenda 

Representatives from defense think 

tanks, U.S. Air Force leadership, and the 

Congressional Budget Office have been 

asked to address the evaluation factors 

under consideration by the Commission 

for a U.S. Air Force structure that—(a) 

meets current and anticipated 

requirements of the combatant 

commands; (b) achieves an appropriate 

balance between the regular and reserve 

components of the Air Force, taking 

advantage of the unique strengths and 

capabilities of each; (c) ensures that the 

regular and reserve components of the 

Air Force have the capacity needed to 

support current and anticipated 

homeland defense and disaster 

assistance missions in the United States; 

(d) provides for sufficient numbers of 

regular members of the Air Force to 

provide a base of trained personnel from 

which the personnel of the reserve 

components of the Air Force could be 

recruited; (e) maintains a peacetime 

rotation force to support operational 

tempo goals of 1:2 for regular members 

of the Air Forces and 1:5 for members 

of the reserve components of the Air 

Force; and (f) maximizes and 

appropriately balances affordability, 

efficiency, effectiveness, capability, and 

readiness. Individual Commissioners 

will also report their activities, 

information collection, and analyses to 

the full Commission. 

Meeting Accessibility: Pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR 

102–3.140 through 102–3.165, and the 

availability of space, the meeting is 

open to the public. The building at 2521 

South Clark Street, Suite 200, Crystal 

City, VA 22202 is fully handicap 

accessible. Several public parking 

facilities are nearby. All visitors will be 

asked to show current, picture 

identification and complete a metal 

detector scan. 

Written Comments: Pursuant to 41 

CFR 102–3.105(j) and 102–3.140 and 

section 10(a)(3) of the FACA, the public 

or interested organizations may submit 

written comments to the Commission in 

response to the stated agenda of the 

open meeting or the Commission’s 

mission. The Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO) will review all submitted written 

statements. Written comments should 

be submitted to Mrs. Marcia Moore, 

DFO, via facsimile or electronic mail, 

the preferred modes of submission. Each 

page of the comment must include the 

author’s name, title or affiliation, 

address, and daytime phone number. 

All contact information may be found in 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Oral Comments: In addition to written 

statements, one hour will be reserved 

for individuals or interested groups to 

address the Commission on July 23, 

2013. Interested oral commenters must 

summarize their oral statement in 

writing and submit with their 

registration. The Commission’s staff will 

assign time to oral commenters at the 

meeting, for no more than 5 minutes 

each. While requests to make an oral 

presentation to the Commission will be 

honored on a first come, first served 

basis, other opportunities for oral 

comments will be provided at future 

meetings. 

Registration: Individuals who wish to 

attend the public hearing and meeting 

on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 are 

encouraged to register for the event in 

advance with the Designated Federal 

Officer, using the electronic mail and 

facsimile contact information found in 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The 

communication should include the 

registrant’s full name, title, affiliation or 


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