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- My name is Ken Myers.

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I'm the branch head of the
Technical Information Center,

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which is located at Carderock Division

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in west Bethesda, Maryland.

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The main mission of the
Technical Information Center

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is to provide our scientists and engineers

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with the most up to date and
current research materials

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that we can provide them.

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We do this in a couple of ways.

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We help them through them asking
us to give research to them

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or we also help them in directing them

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in the areas where they
can find the research.

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One of the things that
we've learned over the years

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is that a lot of people think that if you

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can't find it in Google that
you're not able to find it.

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And the type of research that we do here,

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the type of information that we need here,

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a lot of times is so specific that there's

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only key areas where it can be found,

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and we know a lot of the
different organizations.

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We work with the DOD a lot,
we work with academia a lot,

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and reaching out in the
different communities

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to find the type of information
that they're looking for.

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We have three different types
of research capabilities

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that we have here.

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The first is the, of
course, hard copy library

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type of research.

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We have over 5,000 books that
we have in our repository.

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We have hard copy
journals, current journals,

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and we have historical journals,

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and we also have material
that we have dispensed

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throughout the division.

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Second way that we've
found, which is the most

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used method here, is that we
have a tool called Scribe,

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and what Scribe does,
it gives you the ability

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to do research and have
that research appear

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on your desktop.

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And the third avenue
that we have is a tool

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that we call Research Commons,

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which gives them the ability to see

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more than over 400 online journals.

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What Research Commons did,
was give us the ability

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to combine resources.

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We collaborated with Naval
and Warfare Center Newport,

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and we realized that we were getting

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the same type of journals and
paying so much money for them.

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We realized that if we
could combine our resources

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that would give us more
material at a cheaper cost

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to the Navy.

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So that's what we did, and as a result

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we've had three other Warfare Centers

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that have decided to combine with us,

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and Carderock was the lead
on this along with NUWC.

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We had two types of upgrades
that we did in the tech.

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We did a physical upgrade.

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The other upgrade that we did is

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that we did a electronic upgrade.

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We started a collaboration with MIT,

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and we went through and joined a program

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called the MIT Industrial Liaison Program.

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Now what that does, it
benefits Carderock so much,

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because it gives us the ability

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to not only go into
MIT's research material,

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it gives us access to MIT programs,

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and it also gives us the ability to have

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faculty interaction also,
which is gonna be valuable

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to Carderock as an organization.

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The Technical Information
Center supports the Navy

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and the Warfighter in
the way that we are able

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to provide information and resources

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that the Navy as a whole can use,

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and the Warfighter community as a whole

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will be able to use.

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There are a lot of
information that's contained

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at Carderock that's not contained
anywhere else in the Navy,

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and we have that material
that we can share,

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that we can help in the
research and development

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that's going to benefit not only the Navy,

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but our other armed forces as a whole.