DTIC-your information source for new technologies and applications

Abstract

As central component of the Department of Defense's Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) contributes to the management and conduct of defense research, development, and acquisition efforts by providing access to and transfer of scientific, technical, and management information for DoD personnel, DoD contractors and potential contractors, and other U.S. government personnel and their contractors. Transfemng information about current knowledge such as new bioengineering developments with inertial loading effecting helmet mounted devices, robotics, functional characterization of odorant receptors, etc., is vitally important to the creation of new knowledge. Now that the cold war is over, U.S. defense Iesources have been reduced accordingly. We must increasingly turn to commercial or commercially derived products for our needs, taking advantage of both economies of scale and of cutling edge technologies that are found in the private sector. The products and services offered by DTIC provide an invaluable source of information to both the government and contractor communities in their efforts to identify and develop dual use technologies. Such products and services include: active participation in the Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR) solicitations; management of a domestic technology research database; access to more than 1,000 commercial and government databases; Internet service via public access gophers, web clients, WAIS, Listservers, etc.; manage information analysis centers which help defense scientists and engineers and their contractors find, analyze and use scientific and technical information; and access to more than 2.0 million technical reports and summaries of works in progress.