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Data Collection and Analysis for the
Department of Defense Qualitative and
Quantitative Data Collection in Support
of the Independent Review Commission
on Sexual Assault Recommendations;
OMB Control Number 0704–0644.
Type of Request: New.
Junior Focus Groups
Number of Respondents: 500.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 500.
Average Burden per Response: 60
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 500.
Mid-Level Focus Groups
Number of Respondents: 500.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 500.
Average Burden per Response: 60
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 500.
Senior Focus Groups
Number of Respondents: 320.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 320.
Average Burden per Response: 60
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 320.
Installation Commander Focus Groups
Number of Respondents: 6.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 6.
Average Burden per Response: 30
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 3.
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Total
Number of Respondents: 1,326.
Annual Responses: 1,326.
Annual Burden Hours: 1,323.
Needs and Uses: This study will use
focus groups discussions with Soldiers
and leaders (i.e., Soldiers in command
positions) to gain a deeper
understanding of what Soldiers actually
experience during sexual harassment
(SH) and gender discrimination (GD)
events than can be gleaned from
quantitative survey data. Focus group
discussions will focus on environmental
factors that contribute to SH/GD,
including the general climate and
culture in Army units that may
contribute to or prevent these behaviors
from occurring. Results of this study
will help the Army to identify critical
gaps in current prevention training
efforts and materials from a diverse
range of perspectives (i.e., inclusive of
differing rank/grade levels, by gender).
Analysis of qualitative data collected
through focus group discussions will
produce foundational knowledge to
enable evidence-based implementation
of the Independent Revision
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Commission on Sexual Assault in the
Military (IRC) Recommendations 2.3
(‘‘Implement community-level
prevention strategies unique to Service
members’ environments.’’) and 2.3a
(‘‘The Services and the National Guard
Bureau should resource and implement
prevention strategies at organizational
and community levels,’’ under POAM
milestones 7–15) in the Army. Study
findings are also directly related to a
number of additional IRC
recommendations, including
Recommendations 2.1c/2.4/3.2/3.5/3.5a/
3.5b/3.6/4.4c/4.4d.
Qualitative data will be collected via
focus groups of active-duty Soldiers
(under the rank of flag officer) across six
CONUS installations. These focus
groups cover a number of topics
including unit members’ understanding
of what behaviors constitute SH and GD;
factors that contribute to the climate for
SH and GD (i.e., risk and protective
factors); reporting and intervention by
unit members and leaders; and
recommendations for what Army
prevention training should include.
Focus groups will be conducted
separately for men and women, officers
and enlisted, and by rank (junior, midlevel, and senior). There are a total of
six focus group protocols: junior
enlisted/officer (E1–E4/O1–O2), midlevel enlisted/officer (E5–E6/O3–O4),
and senior enlisted/officer (E7–E9/O5–
O6). These focus groups are intended to
be 60 minutes. A 30-minute discussion
protocol tailored to installation
commanders (generally at the O6 level)
is also included.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet
Seehra.
You may also submit comments and
recommendations, identified by Docket
ID number and title, by the following
method:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name, Docket
ID 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 https://
www.regulations.gov as they are
received without change, including any
personal identifiers or contact
information.
DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela
Duncan.
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Requests for copies of the information
collection proposal should be sent to
Ms. Duncan at whs.mc-alex.esd.mbx.dddod-information-collections@mail.mil.
Dated: April 27, 2023.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations
System
[Docket No. DARS–2023–0019]
Acquisition of Items for Which Federal
Prison Industries Has a Significant
Market Share
Defense Acquisition
Regulations System, Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
DoD is publishing the
updated annual list of product
categories for which the Federal Prison
Industries’ share of the DoD market is
greater than five percent.
DATES: May 25, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Granfield, 978–799–0906.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
November 19, 2009, a final rule was
published in the Federal Register at 74
FR 59914, which amended the Defense
Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement (DFARS) subpart 208.6 to
implement section 827 of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2008 (Pub. L. 110–181). Section
827 changed DoD competition
requirements for purchases from Federal
Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) by requiring
DoD to publish an annual list of product
categories for which FPI’s share of the
DoD market was greater than five
percent, based on the most recent fiscal
year data available. Product categories
on the current list, and the products
within each identified product category,
must be procured using competitive or
fair opportunity procedures in
accordance with DFARS 208.602–70.
The Principal Director, Defense
Pricing and Contracting (DPC), issued a
memorandum dated April 25, 2023, that
provided the current list of product
categories for which FPI’s share of the
DoD market is greater than five percent
based on fiscal year 2022 data from the
Federal Procurement Data System. The
product categories to be competed
effective May 25, 2023, are the
following:
SUMMARY:
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• 7125 (Cabinets, Lockers, Bins, and
Shelving)
• 7210 (Household Furnishings)
• 8405 (Outerwear, Men’s)
• 8410 (Outerwear, Women’s)
• 8415 (Clothing, Special Purpose)
• 8420 (Underwear and Nightwear,
Men’s)
• 8465 (Individual Equipment)
• 9905 (Signs, Advertising, Displays,
and Identification Plates)
The DPC memorandum with the
current list of product categories for
which FPI has a significant market share
is posted at https://www.acq.osd.mil/
dpap/policy/policyvault/USA00025723-DPC.pdf.
The statute, as implemented, also
requires DoD to—
(1) Include FPI in the solicitation
process for these items. A timely offer
from FPI must be considered and award
procedures must be followed in
accordance with existing policy at
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
8.602(a)(4)(ii) through (v);
(2) Continue to conduct acquisitions,
in accordance with FAR subpart 8.6, for
items from product categories for which
FPI does not have a significant market
share. FAR 8.602 requires agencies to
conduct market research and make a
written comparability determination, at
the discretion of the contracting officer.
Competitive (or fair opportunity)
procedures are appropriate if the FPI
product is not comparable in terms of
price, quality, or time of delivery; and
(3) Modify the published list if DoD
subsequently determines that new data
requires adding or omitting a product
category from the list.
public comment on the provisions
thereof. Comments are invited on:
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of
the burden of the proposed information
collection; ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the information collection on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by July 5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Department of Defense, Office of
the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and
Transparency, 4800 Mark Center Drive,
Mailbox #24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria,
VA 22350–1700.
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 https://
www.regulations.gov as they are
received without change, including any
personal identifiers or contact
information.
Jennifer D. Johnson,
Editor/Publisher, Defense Acquisition
Regulations System.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
To
request more information on this
proposed information collection or to
obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instruments,
please write to Defense Human
Resources Activity, 4800 Mark Center
Drive, Suite 08F05, Alexandria, VA
22350, LaTarsha Yeargins, 571–372–
2089.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket ID: DoD–2023–OS–0037]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Personnel and Readiness
(OUSD(P&R)), Department of Defense
(DoD).
ACTION: 60-Day information collection
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AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
OUSD(P&R) announces a proposed
public information collection and seeks
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Number: Active Duty Spouse Survey;
OMB Control Number 0704–0604.
Needs and Uses: The Active Duty
Spouse Survey (ADSS) is the primary
source for reliable and generalizable
survey data on the effects of military life
on military spouses and their families
and the effectiveness of current
programs and policies. This scientific
survey is designed to enhance
understanding of how spouse and
family resilience impact force readiness
and retention and inform the
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effectiveness of programs and policies
under the purview of DoD’s Military
Community and Family Policy (MC&FP)
Department. The ADSS provides
unique, ongoing, reliable data to equip
policymakers with the information they
need to make strategic, data-driven
decisions on a vital component of the
total force—military spouses and
families. All active duty spouses who
want to share their experiences but were
not selected as part of the larger
scientific survey will be able to
complete a shorter survey hosted online
during the same field period.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Annual Burden Hours: 2,875.
Number of Respondents: 11,500.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 11,500.
Average Burden per Response: 15
minutes.
Frequency: Once.
The Office of People Analytics (OPA)
will administer the Active Duty Spouse
Survey (ADSS) to active duty spouses of
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air
Force members who are below flag rank.
Only spouses selected as part of the
random sample will be asked to
complete the survey. The ADSS
includes a paper survey option and
postal notifications will include a
respondent-specific QR code, enabling
spouses to quickly access their survey
via mobile platforms. To reduce
respondent burden, web-based surveys
use ‘‘smart skip’’ technology to ensure
respondents only answer questions that
are applicable to them. Respondents
may access the survey via the web on
a device they select. Respondents may
return to the survey to continue/
complete the questionnaire anytime
during the survey period. Because the
ADSS contains questions on sensitive
topics, consent information will inform
sample members that the survey is
voluntary, that they may decline or skip
questions they do not wish to answer,
and identify any potential risks and
benefits of participation. The web
survey will be administered on
proprietary software developed by
OPA’s operations contractor, Data
Recognition Corporation (DRC).
Digitally signed emails, electronic files,
and web-based technology will be used
for respondent communications and for
data collection. OPA uses a sampling
tool developed by the Research Triangle
Institute (RTI) to determine the sample
size needed to achieve 95% confidence
and an associated precision of 5% or
less on each reporting category domain.
OPA uses Service, paygrade, gender,
and family status to define the initial
strata. We collapse these strata when
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations System
[Docket No. DARS-2023-0019]
Acquisition of Items for Which Federal Prison Industries Has a
Significant Market Share
AGENCY: Defense Acquisition Regulations System, Department of Defense
(DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: DoD is publishing the updated annual list of product
categories for which the Federal Prison Industries' share of the DoD
market is greater than five percent.
DATES: May 25, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Granfield, 978-799-0906.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 19, 2009, a final rule was
published in the Federal Register at 74 FR 59914, which amended the
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) subpart 208.6
to implement section 827 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2008 (Pub. L. 110-181). Section 827 changed DoD competition
requirements for purchases from Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI)
by requiring DoD to publish an annual list of product categories for
which FPI's share of the DoD market was greater than five percent,
based on the most recent fiscal year data available. Product categories
on the current list, and the products within each identified product
category, must be procured using competitive or fair opportunity
procedures in accordance with DFARS 208.602-70.
The Principal Director, Defense Pricing and Contracting (DPC),
issued a memorandum dated April 25, 2023, that provided the current
list of product categories for which FPI's share of the DoD market is
greater than five percent based on fiscal year 2022 data from the
Federal Procurement Data System. The product categories to be competed
effective May 25, 2023, are the following:
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7125 (Cabinets, Lockers, Bins, and Shelving)
7210 (Household Furnishings)
8405 (Outerwear, Men's)
8410 (Outerwear, Women's)
8415 (Clothing, Special Purpose)
8420 (Underwear and Nightwear, Men's)
8465 (Individual Equipment)
9905 (Signs, Advertising, Displays, and Identification Plates)
The DPC memorandum with the current list of product categories for
which FPI has a significant market share is posted at https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA000257-23-DPC.pdf.
The statute, as implemented, also requires DoD to--
(1) Include FPI in the solicitation process for these items. A
timely offer from FPI must be considered and award procedures must be
followed in accordance with existing policy at Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) 8.602(a)(4)(ii) through (v);
(2) Continue to conduct acquisitions, in accordance with FAR
subpart 8.6, for items from product categories for which FPI does not
have a significant market share. FAR 8.602 requires agencies to conduct
market research and make a written comparability determination, at the
discretion of the contracting officer. Competitive (or fair
opportunity) procedures are appropriate if the FPI product is not
comparable in terms of price, quality, or time of delivery; and
(3) Modify the published list if DoD subsequently determines that
new data requires adding or omitting a product category from the list.
Jennifer D. Johnson,
Editor/Publisher, Defense Acquisition Regulations System.
[FR Doc. 2023-09605 Filed 5-4-23; 8:45 am]
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