2006-2016

As the internet and digital capabilities continued to expand into the 21st century, DTIC utilized and leveraged digital tools and the interconnectedness of the internet to expand access to the collections. DTIC was also using emerging technologies to build an online tool capable of expanding collaboration and engagement among DTIC registered users. All these efforts and more gave DTIC users the ability to quickly search and access unclassified and classified material and to engage with others in the Department of Defense and scientific community.

Launched on Oct. 1, 2008, DoDTechipedia serves the DoD Science and Technology (S&T) community by offering a space for collaboration and thought sharing for DTIC registered users on NIPR and SIPR. The controlled-access wiki supports collaborative research and knowledge sharing within the DoD and throughout the federal research and acquisitions communities. DoDTechipedia has been featured on the White House Innovations Gallery and was selected for the 2009 Government Computer News Outstanding Information Technology Award.

DTIC’s Online Access Controlled and Classified Interfaces (DOAC), the controlled and classified versions of the DTIC online customer interfaces, served as the gateway to provide users one-stop access to research and engineering information, budget analysis tools, science and technology strategic planning documents, and advanced searching capabilities.

In 2007, DTIC launched a campaign aimed at establishing a working relationship with each of the 10 Combatant Commands (COCOMs). In November of that year, DTIC held its first COCOM Workshop to demonstrate how DTIC's products, services and resources could directly support COCOMs, specifically the S&T staff. DTIC's partnerships with the COCOMs led to the creation of a dedicated Operational Information Sharing team that routinely visited and hosted the COCOMs to provide briefings and training on the latest DTIC products, services and resources. This also led to the creation of a new role at DTIC: Embedded Librarians. These information professionals worked in a COCOM S&T cell during major exercises, where they provided immediate access to information and were complemented by additional reach back support at DTIC headquarters.

In fiscal year 2013, $2.5 million was requested in support of DTIC’s discovery, analysis, and collaboration support tools such as DoDTechipedia and DOAC. The request for funding to the program supported integration efforts and the development and implementation of additional features for the DoDTechipedia Suite of Services on both NIPR and SIPR. Specifically, the effort included: enhancing a single user profile across DTIC products and features; enabling access by the non-DoD Federal workforce to DTIC collections via the Personal Identification Verification (PIV) card; building out Web Services interfaces to support federation across the DTIC collaboration tools and collections and allowing DTIC users to access other DoD and non-DoD resources and tools. This effort expanded DTIC's user community by reducing the level of subject matter domain expertise needed to rapidly identify and act on relevant data and expand the material accessible, thus opening DTIC collections more broadly among technology customers, to include Warfighters, COCOMs, acquisition, and logistics communities, and technology providers within the S&T and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) communities.