Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting, 62878-62879 [2016-21977]

Download as PDF 62878 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 177 / Tuesday, September 13, 2016 / Notices should call the NTIS Security Office, (703) 605–6440, to arrange for attendance no later than Tuesday, September 20, 2016. If there are sufficient expressions of interest, up to one-half hour will be reserved for public comments during the session. Questions from the public will not be considered by the Board but any person who wishes to submit a written question for the Board’s consideration should email it to Mr. Don Hagen, DHagen@ntis.gov, Subject: NTIS Advisory Board, not later than Friday, September 16, 2015. Dated: September 7, 2016. Gregory Capella, Deputy Director. [FR Doc. 2016–21976 Filed 9–12–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–04–P DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Federal advisory committee meeting notice. AGENCY: 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 meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 29, 2016. Public registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. on both days. For entrance into the meeting, you must meet the necessary requirements for entrance into the Pentagon. For more detailed information, please see the following link: https://www.pfpa.mil/access.html. ADDRESSES: Pentagon Library, Washington Headquarters Services, 1155 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1155. The meeting will be held in Room M2. The Pentagon Library is located in the Pentagon Library and Conference Center (PLC2) across the Corridor 8 bridge. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC Andrew Lunoff, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–3090, email: andrew.s.lunoff.mil@mail.mil, phone: 571–256–9004. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Lhorne on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:27 Sep 12, 2016 Jkt 238001 Purpose of the Meeting: 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 costeffective 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 seventh meeting of the Government-Industry Advisory Panel with a series of meetings planned through December 14, 2016. 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 discussions and deliberations on 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321 tension points; (2) Briefings from various industry suppliers to understand challenges within the supply chain; (3) Briefing from a Service Program Executive Office; (4) Briefing from the Defense Logistics Agency; (5) Briefing on government and industry perspectives on a DoD Consortium; (6) Briefing from Defense Pricing Center; (7) 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 28–29, 2016 meeting will be available as requested or at the following site: https://database.faca.gov/committee/ meetingdocuments.aspx?flr= 141645&cid=2561. PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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, this meeting is open to the public. Registration of members of the public who wish to attend the meeting will begin upon publication of this meeting notice and end three business days (September 23) prior to the start of the meeting. All members of the public must contact LTC Lunoff at the phone number or email listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to make arrangements for Pentagon escort, if necessary. Public attendees should arrive at the Pentagon’s Visitor’s Center, located near the Pentagon Metro Station’s south exit and adjacent to the Pentagon Transit Center bus terminal with sufficient time to complete security screening no later than 8:30 a.m. on September 28. To complete security screening, please come prepared to present two forms of identification of which one must be a pictured identification card. Government and military DoD CAC holders are not required to have an escort, but are still required to pass through the Visitor’s Center to gain access to the Building. Seating is limited and is on a first-toarrive basis. Attendees will be asked to provide their name, title, affiliation, and contact information to include email address and daytime telephone number to the Designated Federal Officer (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 Lunoff, the committee DFO, 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 E:\FR\FM\13SEN1.SGM 13SEN1 Lhorne on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 177 / Tuesday, September 13, 2016 / Notices 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 Lunoff, 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 three (3) minutes during this period, and will be invited to speak in the order in which their requests were received by the DFO. VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:27 Sep 12, 2016 Jkt 238001 Dated: September 8, 2016. Aaron Siegel, Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 2016–21977 Filed 9–12–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 5001–06–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket No.: ED–2016–ICCD–0099] Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2019) Pilot Test Recruitment National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Department of Education (ED). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a revision of an existing information collection. DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before November 14, 2016. ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the information collection listed in this notice, please use https://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED– 2016–ICCD–0099. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at https:// www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please note that comments submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the comment period will not be accepted. Written requests for information or comments submitted by postal mail or delivery should be addressed to the Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 2E–347, Washington, DC 20202–4537. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact NCES Information Collections at NCES.Information.Collections@ed.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 62879 collection requirements and minimize the public’s reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department’s information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The Department of Education is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the use of information technology. Please note that written comments received in response to this notice will be considered public records. Title of Collection: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2019) Pilot Test Recruitment. OMB Control Number: 1850–0695. Type of Review: A revision of an existing information collection. Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or Households. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 8,594. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,190. Abstract: The Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international assessment of fourth and eighth grade students’ achievement in mathematics and science. Since its inception in 1995, TIMSS has continued to assess students every 4 years. The United States will participate in TIMSS 2019 to continue to monitor the progress of its students compared to that of other nations and to provide data on factors that may influence student achievement. New in 2019, TIMSS will be a technology-based assessment conducted in an electronic format. TIMSS is designed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), and is conducted in the U.S. by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). In preparation for the TIMSS 2019 main study, in April 2017, U.S. will participate in a pilot study to assist in the development of eTIMSS and, in March through April 2018, in a field test to evaluate new assessment items and background questions. The TIMSS 2019 Main Study data collection will take place from April through May 2019. This submission is to conduct the E:\FR\FM\13SEN1.SGM 13SEN1

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[FR Doc No: 2016-21977]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Government-Industry Advisory Panel; Notice of Federal Advisory 
Committee Meeting

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

ACTION: Federal advisory committee meeting notice.

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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 meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on 
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, 
September 29, 2016. Public registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. on both 
days. For entrance into the meeting, you must meet the necessary 
requirements for entrance into the Pentagon. For more detailed 
information, please see the following link: https://www.pfpa.mil/access.html.

ADDRESSES: Pentagon Library, Washington Headquarters Services, 1155 
Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1155. The meeting will be held 
in Room M2. The Pentagon Library is located in the Pentagon Library and 
Conference Center (PLC2) across the Corridor 8 bridge.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC Andrew Lunoff, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 Defense Pentagon, 
Washington, DC 20301-3090, email: andrew.s.lunoff.mil@mail.mil">andrew.s.lunoff.mil@mail.mil, phone: 
571-256-9004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Purpose of the Meeting: 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 seventh meeting of the Government-Industry 
Advisory Panel with a series of meetings planned through December 14, 
2016. 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 discussions and deliberations on 10 U.S.C. 2320 
and 2321 tension points; (2) Briefings from various industry suppliers 
to understand challenges within the supply chain; (3) Briefing from a 
Service Program Executive Office; (4) Briefing from the Defense 
Logistics Agency; (5) Briefing on government and industry perspectives 
on a DoD Consortium; (6) Briefing from Defense Pricing Center; (7) 
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 28-29, 2016 meeting will be 
available as requested or at the following site: https://database.faca.gov/committee/meetingdocuments.aspx?flr=141645&cid=2561.
    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, this meeting is open to the public. Registration 
of members of the public who wish to attend the meeting will begin upon 
publication of this meeting notice and end three business days 
(September 23) prior to the start of the meeting. All members of the 
public must contact LTC Lunoff at the phone number or email listed in 
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to make arrangements for 
Pentagon escort, if necessary. Public attendees should arrive at the 
Pentagon's Visitor's Center, located near the Pentagon Metro Station's 
south exit and adjacent to the Pentagon Transit Center bus terminal 
with sufficient time to complete security screening no later than 8:30 
a.m. on September 28. To complete security screening, please come 
prepared to present two forms of identification of which one must be a 
pictured identification card. Government and military DoD CAC holders 
are not required to have an escort, but are still required to pass 
through the Visitor's Center to gain access to the Building. 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 Designated 
Federal Officer (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 Lunoff, the committee DFO, 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

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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 Lunoff, 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 three (3) minutes during this 
period, and will be invited to speak in the order in which their 
requests were received by the DFO.

    Dated: September 8, 2016.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2016-21977 Filed 9-12-16; 8:45 am]
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