Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (804) 734-4255. 100410-004 Tactical Weapon Guidance and Control Information Analysis Center (GACIAC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense Agencies / 97-0400-0-1-051. Program: Technology Base Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and disseminating technical information pertaining to the guidance and control of tactical weapons. Content: The weapons covered include missiles, rockets, bombs, submunitions, projectiles, and munitions dispensing cannisters. The scope includes theoretical performance calculations, guidance laws, systems simulation, seeker and sensor development and testing, inertial component and system development, target signature data, radar cross section data, control actuators, aerodynamics and reaction jet control techniques, development of computational techniques and hardware, component design criteria, manufacturing process development, operational serviceability, environmental protection, and materials. The center also provides technical and administrative assistance to the Joint Service Guidance and Control Committee and its working groups. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-005 Reliability Analysis Center (RAC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and dissemination technical information pertaining to the reliability characteristics of components and systems. Content: The scope includes reliability and failure mode/mechanism information that is generated during all phases of component fabrication, testing, equipment assembly, and operation. Information and data on research and development studies, process control, quality analysis practices, screening and burn-in, qualification and environmental testing, failure analysis reliability prediction methods, reliability demonstration, and field testing and mission deployment are incorporated in the hard copy library and computer data base. Components covered include microcircuits, including monolithic bipolar and metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuits, hybrid circuits, thin and thick film circuits, and large scale arrays; discrete semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, optoelectronic devices, and microwave devices; nonelectronic devices; and standardized electronic modules. The center provides specialized services and assistance on a wide range of reliability problems, such as reliability assessment and prediction, survey, data analysis, device selection, failure problem investigation, reliability test plans and procedures, and systems reliability/maintainability support to systems reliability/maintainability control programs. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-006 Nondestructive Testing Information Analysis Center (NTIAC). Program: Technology Base Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and disseminating technical information pertaining to nondestructive testing technology. Content: The scope includes all nondestructive testing and/or evaluation techniques and processes involving material-energy interaction phenomena such as radiographic, holographic, acoustic, magnetic, or other interactions: Other specific aspects of nondestructive testing covered by the center include economic considerations with respect to selection of techniques and processes, industry trends in applying current nondestructive testing technologies in research and development, production, maintenance, safety monitoring, failure prevention of inservice material, and life assurance. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-007 Metals and Ceramics Information Center (MCIC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: The Metals and Ceramics Information Center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and disseminating information pertaining to metals and ceramics technologies. Content: The scope includes selected metals, ceramics, and composite materials of interest to the Department of Defense and its contractors and materials suppliers. Information included on all three types of materials covers coatings, environmental effects, physical properties, materials applications, test methods, sources/suppliers, specifications, design characteristics, and various fabrication processes. Metals covered include titanium, aluminum, beryllium, refractory metals, high-strength steels, and superalloys. Ceramics covered include borides, carbides, carbon/graphite, nitrides, oxides, sulfides, silicides, selected glasses, and glass ceramics. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-008 Mechanical Properties Data Center (MPDC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and disseminating mechanical properties data on materials of importance to aerospace and defense industries. Content: The scope includes mechanical property data from the following standardized tests: tension, compression, shear, bearing, vessel burst, creep, stress corrosion, fatigue (high and low cycle), fatigue crack propagation, fracture toughness, and impact. The materials covered include low alloy steels, stainless steels, tool steels, superalloys/maraging steels, cast iron, nickel or chromium base, aluminum, titanium, magnesium, cobalt, copper, silver, zinc, tungsten, plutonium, uranium, lead, tin, tantalum, columbium, molybdenum, beryllium, zirconium, hafnium, paladium, carbon, vanadium, and dissimilar metal joints. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-009 Machinability Data Center (MDC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and disseminating information pertaining to machining technology. Content: The scope includes conventional machining practices such as feeds, speeds, depths of cut, too! materials, work materials, cutting coolants and lubricants, machine tools and fixture design, workpiece configurations, finish and tolerance requirements, distortion, residual stress, and all other aspects relating to the surface integrity of machined workpieces or products. The center also covers nonconventional material removal practices, including electrical discharge machining, electrical discharge grinding, electrochemical machining, electrochemical grinding, and chemical, ultrasonic, electron beam, and laser beam machining. Other subjects include the economic aspects of the machining industry, maintenance programs, computer-aided manufacturing, numerical control, adaptive control, group technology, process planning, and high speed machining. Materials covered include high strength steels; titanium and titanium-base alloys; carbons and graphites, including composites; metal matrix composites; beryllium; and high temperature polymers, including composites. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-010 Infrared Information and Analysis Center (IRIA). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, evaluating, processing, and disseminating technical inforination pertaining to electro-optics technology, with emphasis on military infrared research and development. Content: The scope includes radiation sources emitting in the ultraviolet through the infrared regions; radiation characteristics of natural and man-made targets; optical properties of materials; detection materials and elements; masers and lasers; image tubes; optical systems and components; detector coolers; atmospheric absorption, emission, and scattering; and search, homing, tracking, ranging, countermeasures, reconnaissance, and other military infrared and laser systems. The center also provides technical and administrative support to the Infrared Information Symposia (IRIS) and its speciality groups. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-011 Chemical Propulsion Information Agency (CPIA). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense Agencies / 97-0400-0-1-051. Program: Technology Base Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information center is responsible for collecting, storing, processing, evaluating, and disseminating technical information pertaining to chemical propulstion technology. Content: The score includes solid, liquid, hybrid, and electric rocket and ramjet propulsion systems; fuels; related hardware components; and gun propellants. Technical areas include chemical synthesis; thermochemistry; combustion phenomena; physical, chemical, and mechanical properties and manufacturing process development of propellants and fuels; special test equipment and techniques; theoretical and experimental performance; analytical test techniques; component and propulsion unit design; operational serviceability; live-cycle costs; reliability; environmental protection; exhaust plume technology; interior ballistics; materials areas specifically related to missile, space, and gun propulsion; and the evaluation of hazards and safety measures related to these areas. The center also provides technical and administrative support to the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, and Air Force Interagency Propulsion Committee and its subcommittees. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. 100410-012 Reliability Analysis Center (RAC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force / 57-3600-0-1-051 Technology Base. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The Reliability Analysis Center collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on microcircuit reliability. Input: An aggressive data collection program emphasizes the collection of test and field experience data on modern Air Force and other military systems/equipment containing microcircuits. Content: The Center's microcircuit data base covers monolithic and metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuits, thin and thick film hybrid circuits, and large scale arrays. Data analysis procedures are reviewed and revised so that publications produced by the Center contain summarized reliability data for use by weapons system acquisition program managers and others who need to know the microcircuit reliability being achieved in operational use, the effect of screening on microcircuit reliability, and the accuracy of microcircuit prediction techniques. The Center's scope has been expanded to include nonelectronic part and equipment system data collection. Equipment/system data are collected and analyzed by the RADC Reliabil ity Corporate Memory, a sub-set of RAC which is devoted to providing all relevant reliability information and data on equipment and systems from a single source for use by system program managers and reliability analysts. Periodic reports are issued on nonelectronic part reliability and consulting services are provided in this area. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (315) 301-4920. 100410-013 Thermophysical and Electronic Properties Information Analysis Center (TEPIAC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense Agencies / 97-0400-0-1-051. Program: Technology Base Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act (P.L. 94-106). Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: This information analysis center is responsible for collecting, storing, reviewing, evaluating, synthesizing, repackaging, and disseminating technical information pertaining to thermophysical and electronic properties of various materials. Content: The thermophysical properties of materials covered include thermal conductivity, thermal contact resistance, viscosity, emissivity, absorptivity, reflectivity, transmissivity, specific heat, thermal diffusivity, and coefficients of thermal expansion. The electronic properties of the materials covered include the absorption coefficient, dielectric constant and strength, effective mass, electrical resistivity, energy bands, energy gap, energy level, magnetic susceptibility, refractive index, and work function. Property groups covered include electron emission properties, luminescense properties, magnetoelectric properties, photo-electric properties, piezoelectric properties, thermoelectric properties, and magnetomechanical properties. Materials covered include elements, inorganic and organic compounds, ferrous and nonferrous alloys, intermetallics, glasses, ceramics; cermets, applied coatings, polymers, composites, and systems. Agency Contact: Defense Logistics Agency. (202) 274-6793. DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY 100413-001 U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operation and Maintenance, Defense Agencies 97-0100-0-1-051. Program: Intelligence and Communication, Defense Mapping Agency Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Annual Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act. Availability: The gazetteers are circulated free of charge to Federal agencies and qualified users. Information regarding names is available to Federal agencies and the public on request. Purpose: This system provides staff support to BGN foreignnames programs in response to provisions of Public Law 80-242 (which created BGN) and provides information about foreign geographic nomenclature to DOD, other Federal, and non-Federal users. Input: Primary sources of information comprise maps, gazetteers, atlases, census documents, and other publications issued by foreign agencies. As processed by DMA staff under BGN guide lines, these sources become the basic files of nonmenclatural information. An important part of processing is conversion to roman alphabet of names from non-roman-alphabet sources. Content: Data are concerned with nomenclature of geographic features in foreign areas (including undersea features, features in Antarctica, and features on planetary surfaces). Items include name of feature, class or type of feature, location (latitude and longitude), and administrative area in which located. Listed are approximately 5 million names, including a BGN-approved name for features as well as variant spellings as required. While some information is old, most names in files are kept relatively current. Output: Names are disseminated in a series of gazetteers covering about 155 countries or areas. The gazetteers are in hardcopy, but magnetic tapes for each also are available. The tapes, however, lack diacritics that are necessary for many names converted from non-roman-alphabet sources. Some gazetteers are old and do not show current names. Purpose: The Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Topographic Center (DMAHTC) maintains five specialized libraries which contain defense security information. Content: The libraries maintained by DMAHTC include the Department of Defense Library of Maps which contains a comprehensive worldwide collection of maps, city plans, and related graphics and documents; the Department of Defense Library of Geodetic Data, which contains worldwide coverage of horizontal and vertical control of all orders however derived (by ground, aerial, or satellite surveys); the Department of Defense Library of Foreign Place Names, which consists of a file of standardized foreign place names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names; the Department of Defense Library of Bathymetric Data, which is the repository for echo-sounding bathymetric data in coastal and ocean areas; and the Department of Defense Library of Nautical Charts, which contains a composite collection of U.S. and foreign produced nautical charts. Agency Contact: Defense Mapping Agency. (202) 254-4406. 100413-003 Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center (DMACC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operation and Maintenance, Defense Agencies/97-0100-0-1-051. Program: Intelligence and Communications (Defense Mapping Agency) Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Department of Defense Appropriation Act of 1975, title Availability: Agency contact Purpose: The Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center maintains five specialized libraries which contain defense security information. Content: The libraries maintained by the Aerospace Center include the Department of Defense Library of Aeronautical Charts, which is the official centralized depository for all DMA-produced aeronautical charts and those foreign produced aeronautical charts compiled under U.S. and foreign national joint specifications; the Department of Defense Library of Gravity Data, which maintains reference files of gravity data, publications, documents, anomaly maps, mean elevations, and mean anomalies; the Department of Defense Library of Free World Air Facilities and Flight Information, which is the official depository of all data on airfields and seaplane stations and related data on such items as electronic navigation aids, air traffic control facilities, controlled airspace, and obstructions to air navigation the Department of Defense Library of Installations/Positional Data, which consists of a computerized file of positional data for installations and/or associated points generated in support of Air/Missile Strategic and Tactical Strike Systems, with immediate program identification and final positional information; and the Department of Defense Library of Positional Data Bases, which is the centralized file for all DMA produced, deployable, Point Positioning Data Bases. Agency Contact: Defense Mapping Agency. (202) 254-4406. DEFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY 100414-001 DOD Nuclear Information and Analysis Center (DASIAC). (P99QAXDC008). OMB Funding Title/Code: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense Agencies / 97-0400-0-1-051. Program: Technology Base Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. House Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Defense Subcommittee. Authority: Fiscal Year 1976 Department of Defense Appropriation Purpose: This information and analysis center serves as the focal point for information about nuclear weapon effects on tactical and strategic military systems and about nuclear weapon phenomenology. Content: The scope encompasses virtually all Department of Defense nuclear weapons effects research and test programs. The center's reference collection and special data files are considered the largest readily accessible source of nuclear effects information in the United States. Specific topics include documentation on nuclear weapon output; nuclear phenomenology; nuclear effects on humans, plants, and animals; and systems effects. The information is used for response to subject matter queries, test data compilations, comparisons and summaries, information assessments, state-of-the-art surveys, data reduction, and nuclear computer codes dissemination. Agency Contact: Defense Nuclear Agency. (202) 325-7042. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 100500-001 All Purpose Table. 38 pp. OMB Funding Title/Code: General Departmental Management / 75-0120-0-1-600. Program: All Programs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Appropriations: Labor-Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee; House Committee on Education and Labor; House Committee on Ways and Means; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Human Resources; Senate Committee on Finance. Authority: P.L. 83-13. Availability: Agency Contact Purpose: Detailed information is provided on the status and funding level of the Department's annual budget. Input: Data are obtained from Presidential budget documents and Congressional reports. Content: This document contains detailed information on the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's annual budget. Information covers the status and funding level of appropriation accounts, obligations, outlays, and budget authority. Agency Contact: (202) 245-6151. 100500-002 Summary of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Programs. March 1978; 114 pp. Joseph Conte, editor OMB Funding Title/Code: General Departmental Management / 75-0120-0-1-500 / 75-0120-0-1-600. Program: All Programs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Education and Labor; House Committee on Ways and Means; House Committee on Appropriations: Labor-Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Human Resources; Senate Committee on Finance; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 76-000. Social Security Act (P.L. 74-271). Eco- Purpose: The program listing is a brief, handy reference for Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) managers. It provides concise, descriptive information on the nature of programs and who administers them. Input: Each HEW agency and the Office of the Secretary provided and reviewed entries. Content: The listing contains the following information for each HEW program: Office of Management and Budget Catalog number (if any), program title, administering entity, and short description. Tallies for total number of programs and for programs by category (assistance, intramural, regulatory, and international) are included. The listing also contains program indices by organization, functional area, and popular name. Agency Contact: (202) 245-1839. 100500-003 Publications Catalog of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. March 1978; 650 pp. OMB Funding Title/Code: General Departmental Management / 75-0120-0-1-500 / 75-0120-0-1-600. Program: All Programs Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Education and Labor; House Committee on Ways and Means; House Committee on Appropriations: Labor-Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Human Resources; Senate Committee on Finance; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 76-000. Social Security Act (P.L. 74-271). Economic Opportunity Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-644). Availability: Agency Contact; GPO Purpose: The publication serves to list, catalog, index, and locate Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) publications. Input: HEW Agencies printing officers are required by the Joint Committee on Printing to send copies of publications to the Superintendent of Documents for cataloging in the "Monthly Catalog.". Content: The HEW publications cataloged/indexed by the Superintendent of Documents within the last year covers approximately 1,800 titles arranged by: agency, subject, title, report number, and classification number and includes availability statements. Standardized cataloging format is the same as that used by the Superintendent of Documents. Agency Contact: (202) 245-6801. 100500-004 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Staff Manual System. 1978; 22 vols. OMB Funding Title/Code: General Department / 75-0120-0-1-500; Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Education and Labor; House Committee on Ways and Means; House Committee on Appropriations: Labor-Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Human Resources; Senate Committee on Finance; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee. Authority: P.L. 76-000. Social Security Act (P.L. 74-271). Economic Opportunity Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-644). Availability: Internal Use Only Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The manuals provide Department of Health, Education, and Welfare employees with information and instructions on administrative and financial matters that they need in their official work. Input: Primary sources include laws, executive orders, regulations issued by central agencies such as the General Services Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Civil Service Commission, Secretarial orders, management studies, and other documents having an effect on the Department's work. Providers of information are the several staff offices in the Office of the Secretary. Content: Information covers all phases of administrative and financial management. It is issued in these 22 volumes-accounting, voucher examination, correspondence, forms management, issuance management, ADP Systems, emergency, organization, personnel, telecommunications, safety management, printing, procurement, material management, public affairs, records management, security, time and leave accounts, travel, facilities engineering |