Talk:Defense Technical Information Center

MSIAC-Disambiguation

Hi all, is MSIAC still the current term for Modelling and Simulation Information Analysis Center or is it MSOC now? I could not find any live link under http://www.msco.mil/MSIAC.html AOP39 (talk) 14:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Consolidated into Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSISIAC) GeoVenturing (talk) 18:02, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Disamiguation

Can we also get a link to DTIC the brand name of Dacarbazine a chemotherapy drug please? thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.198.9.82 (talk) 12:42, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Rewrite Live

I just wanted to confirm that I moved over my edits (which were a subpage of this talk page) to the live article as I felt they were superior to what was there. I salvaged what I thought was encyclopedic from the article and used that in this version, along with material that I could find. I know it's not a polished article, but I'm more than happy with the way it turned out. ThomasOwens (talk) 00:15, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I can see a few problems, including: needing more in-wiki links, rewrite of history section so it is not a list, more (if any) DTIC services. I'm looking into all of these myself, but any help would be appreciated. And if you see something else and you can't fix it, let me know. My goal is to try to get this article to featured status. ThomasOwens (talk) 11:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review Notes

• The lead needs to be expanded into a full summary of the article. At present the brief lead section simply defines what DTIC is, whereas the article covers its foundation, history and range of activities. The general rule is that anything of significance in the main article should be briefly anticipated in the lead; conversely, anything that appears in the lead should be expanded in the main article.
• Sections in the main article should generally be in prose, not in bullet-point list format. I see from the article's talk-page that the need to rewrite the History section in prose has been acknowledged, and perhaps this would be the first place to start the development of the article.
• The bald links in the IAC lists need to be replaced by short descriptions of what these agencies actually do, cited to each web source.
• References need to be properly formatted, using the cite web template.
• The appearance of the article would be improved if you can find a related image or two. You may have to stretch your imagination, but I expect there will be DoD material on Commons that has some relevance to this article.
• Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles.
• This article has no or few images. Please see if there are any free use images that fall under the Wikipedia:Image use policy and fit under one of the Wikipedia:Image copyright tags that can be uploaded. To upload images on Wikipedia, go to Special:Upload; to upload non-fair use images on the Wikimedia Commons, go to commons:special:upload.
• If there is not a free use image in the top right corner of the article, please try to find and include one.
• You may wish to consider adding an appropriate infobox for this article, if one exists relating to the topic of the article.
• This article is a bit too short, and therefore may not be as comprehensive as WP:WIAFA critera 1(b) is looking for. Please see if anything can be expanded upon.
• As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work.

ThomasOwens (talk) 15:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

DTIC and DDRE/RT

Hello,

The information on DTIC is out of date, and the org structure for DoD Research and Engineering are out of date. My attempts to update appear to have all been deleted. DTIC is not an advertising page in wikipedia, but a page about a DoD Field Activity. The head of DTIC is not an Assistant Secretary of Defense, but the Administrator "https://discover.dtic.mil/administrator-bio/"

There is a wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_Defense_for_Research_and_Engineering

But it is also wrong. There is no Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. There are two Director Defense Research and Engineering (RT) and (AC).

I am not sure how to properly update. I tried to start with DTIC. Since there is no longer an ASD, DTIC no longer reports to ASD. Since the ASD was disestablished, there is no simple way to update that page, so I tried to start creating a DDRE/RT page.

You can find information on the dod web site: https://www.acq.osd.mil/chieftechnologist/mission/leadership.html

The public web site for DTIC is now: https://discover.dtic.mil

The Link to the IAC page is now: https://dodiac.dtic.mil

https://discover.dtic.mil/about/ shows that DTIC reports to DDRE/RT

"As a Department of Defense (DoD) Field Activity, DTIC operates under the leadership of the Secretary of Defense and reports to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering USD(R&E)."

I also attempted to update the information on web sites DTIC currently hosts, those were also deleted. DTIC no longer hosts sites like FVAP and PFPA.

Thanks

USA1776Liberty (talk) 21:45, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

I am moving this message, posted on my Talk page, to this page, where it appears to be more relevant, for a more involved discussion on this matter. I do not normally edit in this subject area, and am not taking any position on the matter here. Jalen D. Folf (talk) 23:45, 26 December 2018 (UTC)