Defense Technical Information Center

**About DTIC** **DTIC's mission is " to ensure the innovation and knowledge stemming from DoW’s past and current investment in science and technology (S&T) forms the building blocks for the next generation of discovery and accelerates capability to the warfighter.** The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®) has served the information needs of the defense community for more than 80 years. Our function is essential to DoW’s continuing success. DTIC is the only DoW scientific and technical (S&T) repository available to ALL of DoW. We are not only critical to sharing DoW’s S&T investment – more than $20 Billion annually – among the services, but we do so in a secure manner enabling lab scientists, engineers, and researchers to build upon past and present research. DTIC accelerates fielding of new capabilities, lowers costs, and helps ensure battlefield superiority. DTIC is a DoW Field Activity operating under the leadership of the Secretary of War and reporting to the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (USW(R&E)) through the Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies (USW(CT)). DTIC supports the Department's efforts to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence by: - Preserving and disseminating the research that led to the technologies our warfighters use today; - Delivering the tools and collections that empower the R&E enterprise to accelerate the development of technologies that will help maintain our nation's technical superiority; - Stimulating innovation by providing access to DoW-funded research and digital data to the public and industry; and - Maximizing the value of each dollar the DoW spends through the analysis of funding, work-in-progress, and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) data to identify gaps, challenges and way forward. Most of the research records – close to 5 million – in our collection are available through the [R&E Gateway](https://www.dtic.mil/) \- an access-controlled knowledge management repository available to authorized DoW personnel, defense contractors, federal government personnel, government contractors, and select academic institutions. The [R&E Gateway](https://www.dtic.mil/) requires Common Access Card (CAC) login or registration. A user’s specific credentials determine the level of access he or she has within the platform. The public can access nearly 1 million unclassified documents, including many that are full-text and downloadable, through this website. DTIC also manages the DoD [Information Analysis Centers](https://dodiac.dtic.mil/) (DoDIAC) which provide essential technical analysis and data support to a diverse customer base that spans the Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Office of the Secretary of War, defense agencies, and the military services. The DoDIAC actively partners and collaborates with defense research and engineering focus groups and communities of interest in cyber, homeland defense and defense systems. The DoDIAC is staffed by scientists, engineers, and information specialists who provide users with focused expert assistance and unbiased scientific and technical information (STI). They perform the basic or core activities necessary to fulfill the mission and objectives of the DoD and greater S&T communities’ needs by focusing on the collection, analysis, synthesizing/processing and dissemination of STI.