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###### Department of Defense

###### Office of the Secretary

# AGENCY:

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), Department of Defense (DoD).

# ACTION:

Federal advisory committee meeting notice.

# SUMMARY:

The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Government-Industry Advisory Panel. This meeting is open to the public.

# DATES:

The meetings will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, September 20 through 21, 2017. Public registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. on each day. For entrance into the meeting, you must submit your name to the Designated Federal Officer (DFO) no later than September 19, 2017.

Teleconference and direct connect information will be provided by the DFO and support staff at the contact information in this notice.

# ADDRESSES:

1550 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202. Visitors must provide an ID to the receptionist, and she will provide a badge for entrance.

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

                        LTC Robert L. McDonald Jr., Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3090, email:                         *Robert.L.McDonald.mil@mail.mil,*                         phone: 571-256-9006 or Peter Nash, email:                         *peter.b.nash3.ctr@mail.mil,*                         phone: 703-693-5111.                    

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                    Due to circumstances beyond the control of the Designated Federal Officer and the Department of Defense, the Government-Industry Advisory Panel was unable to provide public notification concerning its meeting on September 20 through 21, 2017, as required by 41 CFR 102-3.150(a). Accordingly, the Advisory Committee Management Officer for the Department                           ( print page 43752)                        of Defense, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150(b), waives the 15-calendar day notification requirement.                

*Purpose of the Meetings:*                     This meeting is being held under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA) (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 Government-Industry Advisory Panel will review sections 2320 and 2321 of title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.), regarding rights in technical data and the validation of proprietary data restrictions and the regulations implementing such sections, for the purpose of ensuring that such statutory and regulatory requirements are best structured to serve the interest of the taxpayers and the national defense. The scope of the panel is as follows: (1) Ensuring that the Department of Defense (DoD) does not pay more than once for the same work, (2) Ensuring that the DoD contractors are appropriately rewarded for their innovation and invention, (3) Providing for cost-effective reprocurement, sustainment, modification, and upgrades to the DoD systems, (4) Encouraging the private sector to invest in new products, technologies, and processes relevant to the missions of the DoD, and (5) Ensuring that the DoD has appropriate access to innovative products, technologies, and processes developed by the private sector for commercial use.                

*Agenda:*                     This will be the twenty-first meeting of the Government-Industry Advisory Panel, respectively. The panel will cover details of 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321, begin understanding the implementing regulations and detail the necessary groups within the private sector and government to provide supporting documentation for their review of these codes and regulations during follow-on meetings. Agenda items for this meeting will include the following: (1) Final review of tension point information papers; (2) Rewrite FY17 NDAA 2320 and 2321 language; (3) Review Report Framework and Format for Publishing; (4) Comment Adjudication & Planning for follow-on meeting.                

*Availability of Materials for the Meeting:*                     A copy of the agenda or any updates to the agenda for the September 20 through 21, 2017 meeting is available as requested or at the following site:                     *https://www.facadatabase.gov/​committee/​committee.aspx?​cid=​2561&​aid=​41.*                     It will also be distributed upon request. Minor changes to the agenda will be announced at the meeting. All materials will be posted to the FACA database after the meeting.                

*Public Accessibility to the Meeting:*                     Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR 102-3.140 through 102-3.165, and subject to the availability of space, the meetings are open to the public. Registration of members of the public who wish to attend the meetings will begin upon publication of this meeting notice and end three business days (September 15) prior to the start of the meetings. All members of the public must contact LTC McDonald or Mr. Nash at the phone number or email listed in the                     **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT**                     section. Seating is limited and is on a first-to-arrive basis. Attendees will be asked to provide their name, title, affiliation, and contact information to include email address and daytime telephone number to the DFO listed in the                     **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT**                     section. Any interested person may attend the meeting, file written comments or statements with the committee, or make verbal comments from the floor during the public meeting, at the times, and in the manner, permitted by the committee.                

*Special Accommodations:*                     The meeting venue is fully handicap accessible, with wheelchair access.                

                    Individuals requiring special accommodations to access the public meeting or seeking additional information about public access procedures, should contact LTC McDonald, the committee DFO, or Mr. Nash at the email address or telephone number listed in the                     **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT**                     section, at least five (5) business days prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.                

*Written Comments or Statements:*                     Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140 and section 10(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the public or interested organizations may submit written comments or statements to the Government-Industry Advisory Panel about its mission and/or the topics to be addressed in this public meeting. Written comments or statements should be submitted to LTC McDonald, the committee DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred mode of submission, at the email address listed in the                     **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT**                     section in the following formats: Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. The comment or statement must include the author's name, title, affiliation, address, and daytime telephone number. Written comments or statements being submitted in response to the agenda set forth in this notice must be received by the committee DFO at least five (5) business days prior to the meeting so that they may be made available to the Government-Industry Advisory Panel for its consideration prior to the meeting. Written comments or statements received after this date may not be provided to the panel until its next meeting. Please note that because the panel operates under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, all written comments will be treated as public documents and will be made available for public inspection.                

*Verbal Comments:*                     Members of the public will be permitted to make verbal comments during the meeting only at the time and in the manner allowed herein. If a member of the public is interested in making a verbal comment at the open meeting, that individual must submit a request, with a brief statement of the subject matter to be addressed by the comment, at least three (3) business days in advance to the committee DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred mode of submission, at the email address listed in the                     **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT**                     section. The committee DFO will log each request to make a comment, in the order received, and determine whether the subject matter of each comment is relevant to the panel's mission and/or the topics to be addressed in this public meeting. A 30-minute period near the end of the meeting will be available for verbal public comments. Members of the public who have requested to make a verbal comment and whose comments have been deemed relevant under the process described in this paragraph, will be allotted no more than five (5) minutes during this period, and will be invited to speak in the order in which their requests were received by the DFO.                

Dated: September 14, 2017.

Aaron Siegel,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 2017-19898 Filed 9-18-17; 8:45 am]

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