UDRI-PR-67-136

ESTABLISHMENT OF A STINFO PROGRAM FOR THEAIR FORCE AERO PROPULSION LABORATORY

Progress ReportJuly through December 1966

Contract AF 33(615) - 2993

James M. TierneyAnn T. Dodson

Antoinette L Lueck

August 1967

This document has been approved DD nfor public release and sale; 1•, "its distribution is unlimited. )1/°CTl967

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTEDayton, Ohio 45409

UDRI-PR-67-136

ESTABLISHMENT OF A STINFO PROGRAM FOR THEAIR FORCE AERO PROPULSION LABORATORY

Progress ReportJuly through December 1966

Contract AF 33(615)-2993

James M. TierneyAnn T. Dodson

Antoinette L. Lueck

August 1967

This document has been approved

for public release and sale;its distribution is unlimited.

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTEDayton, Ohio 45409

FOREWORD

This report was prepared by the University of Dayton ResearchInstitute, Dayton, Ohio, under U. S. Air Force Contract AF 33(615)-2993.This contract was initiated by the Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory,A;r Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and isadministered under the direction of Rudolph Platzer, Chief of the ExecutiveOffice. The period covered by this report is July through December 1966.

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ABSTRACT

The STINFO Office, established and staffed by the University of

Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) within the Air Force Aero Propulsion Labora-

tory (AFAPL) under contract AF 33(615)-2993, has completed eighteen months of

operation. The staff of an average of seven full-time persons during this

period has defined the needs of the AFAPL engineering personnel for scienti-

fic and technical information and has established a program to satisfy these

needs. Basically this program consists of three main functions: literature

searching, document acquisition and storage, and the dissemination of infor-

mation. The procedures associated with these functions are described in

detail and statistics are presented to account for the day-to-day activities.

STINFO personnel, after establishing the program, are to train

government employees in a six-month period to assume operation of the program

after completion of the contract. Therefore, task descriptions and staffing

requirements are in'-luded.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION ................................................. 1

II. LITERATURE SEARCHES .......................................... 7

1. The Need ................................................ 7

2. Task Development ........................................ 7

3. Manpower Requirement .................................... 9

III. DOCUMENT ACOUISITION AND STORAGE ............................. 11

1. The Need ...................... 11

2. Task Development ...................... ................ 11

3. Manpower Requirement ................................... 13

IV. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ................................. 15

1. The Need ................................................ 15

2. Task Development ........................................ 16

3. Manpower Requirement .................................... 17

APPENDIX

I. LITERATURE SEARCHES .......................................... 19

II. DOCUMENT ACOUISITION ......................................... 23

III. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ................................. 29

REFERENCES ......................................................... 33

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ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURE PAGE

1. Flow Chart of UDRI-AFAPL STINFO Operations ..................... 3

2. STINFO Staff Requirements ...................................... 5

TABLE

I. Search Requestors: July 1965 - December 1966 .................. 20

II. Searches Submitted by STINFO:July 1965 - December 1966 ...................................... 21

III. AFAPL Participation in NASA/SDI Program ........................ 22

IV. STINFO Document-Acquisition Program:July - December 1966 ........................................... 25

V. Document Requestors: July - December 1966 ..................... 27

VI. STINFO Activities in Dissemination of Information:July 1965 - December 1966 ...................................... 30

VII. STINFO Listings of Technical Meetings:July - December 1966 ........................................... 31

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SECTION I

INTRODUCTION

The Scientific and Technical Information (STINFO) program within

the Department of Defense (DoD) provides for "...the handling and dis-

semination of technical data and documents or their abstracts, the pub-

lishing of technical journals, the preparation and conduct of technical

meetings and symposia, and the dissemination of information acquired by

all other means, that are products of or are in direct support of DoD

research, development, test and evaluation processes, and the management

thereof, through the phase of design release to production."'* The

U. S. Air Force (USAF) implemented the DoD program through Air Force Regu-

lation (AFR) 80-29 which requires that "Each Air Force activity that per-

forms a research, development, test, or engineeridg function...be respon-

sible for administering the STINFO program in the Air Force" and that

STINFO Offices be established "within the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC),

at each headquarters, division, center, laboratory, systems program office,

and major project office." 2

A STINFO Office has been established within the Air Force Aero

Propulsion Laboratory (AFAPL) in compliance with AFR 80-29. In contrast

to other Air Force STINFO efforts, the AFAPL office was established on a

* Superscript numbers in the text refer to items in REFERENCES.

contractual basis in July 1965. This office has been staffed and operated

by the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) under Contract

AF33(615)-2993.

The goal of the UDRI-AFAPL STINFO Office has been twofold:

1. To discover, define, and develop the areas of STINFOoperation required within the specific AFAPL environ-ment

2. To operate as a viable information facility within1-kc ;-ral framework of the governmental require-

ments.

The flow chart of STINFO operations in Figure 1 shows the functions

developed to satisfy the cycle of information needs at the AFAPL. These

functions have required the full-time effort of an average of seven persons.

The continued maintenance of the STINFO Office as established under Contract

AF33(615)-2993 can be handled by a STINFO Officer supported by three non-

technical persons. This reduction of staff to maintain versus to discover,

define, and develop the AFAPL STINFO operation is shown in Figure 2 and is

pointed out in the discussion of the specific STINFO activities.

Previous reports 3 , 4 have recorded progress in establishing the

office and in performing day-to-day STINFO activities. This report also

will detail the type and volume of the various act'ivities to show the

development of the function and to provide continuity with previous pro-

gress reports. In addition, this report from a broader viewpoint will dis-

cuss those areas of STINFO activity most pertinent to AFAPL operations and

will include task descriptions and staffing requirements.

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SECTION II

LITERATURE SEARCHIES

1 THE NEED

'1he task of locating ilterature pertinent to any one subject has

become more and more difficult with the increased number of publications.

However, this task is a necessity in supporting the research and develop-

ment efforts of technical personnel. Thus, a literature- searching function

was estal lished during the definition phase of the STINFO operation as one

cf the major needs of the AFAPL personnel. This function also satisfied

AFSC Supplement 1 to AFR 80-29 which requires that "During the planning

phase of any RD]&E project, a comprehensive survey will be made of perti-

n•nrr scientific and technical literature and current DoD R&D programs....

As a mini-mum, a bibliograplhy of pertinent reports will be obtained from DDC,

and P check will be made of the DDC index of current RDT&E programs to

identify DoD ptograms that are similar or related to that being pianned."5

2. TASK DEVELOP>ENT

The STINFO Office thus becomes the central liaison point or inter-

face between laboratory personnel and the many information centers and

searching facilities operated by governmental, industrial, academic, and

noLIprofit institutions for cbtaining background data and information perti-

nent to current projects. STINFO Office staff members assist laboratory

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personnel in preparing search requests for retrospective searches and

interest profiles for current-awareness searches. The Defense Documentation

Center (DDC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the

Science Information Exchange (SIE), the National Referral Center (NRC) of

the Library of Cougress, and the STINFO Office through local library facili-

ties service these requests on a regular basis. Other specialized informa-

tion centers are queried on a demand basis.

Search requests on the same topic generally are submitted to more

than one searching facility because of real or potential overlap in the

scope of the various facilities or because of the nature of the request

itself. Thus, the receipt of one search request in the STINFO Office results

in the submittal of several search requests. Specifically, 52 search requests

received and processed throu.izh the STINFO Office since June 1966 have resulted

in 248 separate searches by different facilities. Returns from SIE and NRC

result in contacting other facilities or individuals for additional informa-

tion. These contacts may be considered either as additional searches or as

search f•,lllot-up, but for conveuience have been included in the search figures

provided above. Specific data on searches processed by the STINFO Office are

given in Appendix I.

Current-awareness services complement the retrospective literature

searches and survey the literature for defined interests on a regular basis.

The NASA Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program and the Foreign

Technology Division (FTD) Central Information Reference and Control (CIRC)

data base provide current-awareness services to laboratory personnel. The

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STINFO Office has monitored the SDI piogram and has assisted laboratory per-

sonnel in the preparation of Interest profiles in a manner similar to the

preparation of retrospective search requests. STINFO staff members also have

provided liaison between laboratory branches and FTD in tie establishment of

interest profiles for selective dissemination of foreign technical literature.

Each profile submitted to NASA and to FTD represerts more than one individual.

The SDI profiles represent groups of engineers with similar interests; all

the branches participate in this program. The distribution of these SDI pro-

files within AFAPL is presented in Appendix I. Each FTD profile represents a

different laboratory branch.

3. MANPOWER REQUIREMENT

The literature-search function, including both the retrospective and

the current-awareness types, involves two distinct activities: the search

statement and the search processing. The task of developing the search state-

ment has been to insure that the request is stated clearly and concisely and is

forwarded to applicable seirching facilities. A professional litrarian has

developed the procedures for this task; but an individual with a general

knowledge of the scientific and technical discipline3, familiarity with infor-

mation retrieval systems, and an interpretive or quering ability could perform

this effort satisfactorily. The task of search Drocessing involves typing the

necessary request forms for queried 3ervices, file maintenance, and routing

search returns and thus requires clerical ability, especially typing skill, or

access to a clerk typist.

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The STINFO Office has performed very few literature searches within

local libraries. If the quantity of this type of search increases or if a

current-awareness service based on publications held by local libraries is

inaugurated, the importance of background in a technical discipline or in a

library-science-oriented field increases. However, the necessity and value

of such searches are limited. Based on returns from a survey conducted by

the STINFO Office, AFAPL personnel showed little interest in the type of

literature search performed effectively and economically within local

libraries.

The actual work now involved in the literature-search function thus

can be handled satisfactorily by an intelligent, responsible, but nontechni-

cal individual under the direct supervision of a professional person, in this

case, the STINFO Officer. This supervision is necessary in order to maintain

a scientific attitude in the acquisition of technical information. Without

this attitude, the search processor and the entire STINFO operaticn are in

danger of becoming a secretarial service.

SECTION III

DOCLUMENT ACQUISITION AND STORAGE

1. THE NEED

"Within the total program for handling technical information for

the Defense community, one of the chief elements is the Scientific and Tech-

nical Information Program. Data, information, and documents generated from

or used in the RDT & E activities of DoD and its contractors comprise the

materials with which the Program operates." 6 AFAPL personnel have daily

need for technical documents. Prior to eEtablishment of the STINFO Office,

this need was satisfied by diverse means. The STINFO Office has centralized

document acquisition and thus has affected economies in time, money, and dupli-

cation of effort.

2. TASK DE\LLOPMENT

The acquisition function is the busiest and most necessary of the

STINFO operations. STINFO staff members have handled 2348 requests for

3016 documents since June 1966. These requests to a large extent result

from literature searches or current-awareness programs and are for techni-

cl reports, Journal articles, conference proceedings, technical manuals,

handbooks, and patents. Sources from which to acquire the documents have

included governmental and nongovernmental facilities, corporations and

individuals, interlibrary loans and putchases. This large volume of

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req,,Psts handled requires accurate record keeping for outstanding orders,

requests receivad, and location of received documents. Further details on

the acquisiticn program are provided in Appendix I1.

The establishment and maintenance of a collection of source

references are important aspects of the acquisition program. Abstract

journals are the most useful item of the STINFO-developed source collection.

The continuation of an effective acquisition program requires the main-

tenance of the abstract journal collection.

AFAIPL, however, does not have its own library fz.cility, and the

STINFO Office has intended neither to establish a formal library nor to

duplicate or assume the duties and prerogatives of libraries currently

available within the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (W-PAFB) complex. The

STINFO staff has attempted to collect those publications of specific interest

to laboratory personnel; abstract journals, bibliographic tools, and publi-

cations of professional interest in the STINFO area; and all laboratory

issued or sponsored publications. STINFO also has provided liaison between

laboratory personnel and various libraries. Thus, STINFO personnel perform

library functions only in maintaining a limited collection of documents,

loaning publications held in that collectio,., providing acqi;siLion service,

and performing liaison work. These functions, however, are performed to

assist laboratory personnel to do a more efficient, less costly job, not to

overlap the duties of area librarians.

Requests for documents or information concerning documents written

by laboratory personnel, laboratory contractors, or research facilities

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formerly contained within the AFAPL sphere of interests ;;re rtce'ivcd fre-

quently from governmental facilities, corporation librares, asnd indi-

viduals. Servicing these "outside" requests requires a centralized facility

with access to AFU'I. documents and/or to information concerning those docu-

ments including contract numbers and content authoritiess. This centralized

facility does not exist for doc-iments prior to July 1965, but the S;I1NFO

Office attempts to service all requests either by rt'f-rring t." 'tt j_,,ilCc-

tion of laboratory reports or by contacting laboratory personnel for infor-

mation on the required documents. This timne-consuminv task requires many

telephone calls and mu-h "detective work".

3. ,'VJNPGOW ER REq,.RUNT

The operation of the STINFO acquisition program requires at least

the full-time services of one person familiar with use of abstracting jour-

nals, reference materials, and ordering procedures. The requisite

familiarity may arise from formal courses and/or operating experience in a

technical library or documentation environment. In addition, the abilities

to type and to maintain accurate files coupled with some skill in verbal

expression are necessary for the efficienc handling of this function.

The current work requirements in the STINFO Office have necessitated

the full-time services of two people to handle document acquisition and

storage. However, since this function is related so closely to the litera-

ture-searching task, the nontechnical person maintaining that task could

assist with document acquisition and storage.

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SEC'LiON IV

DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

1. THE NEED

The STINFO program among other things is responsible for inputs into

the DoD information interchange system. As pointed out elsewhere, "Stress

must be placed on the quality of information input. The author and his

organization must objectively judge the values in the work reported and dis-

card non-essentials. Contributions must, of course, be prepared using good.

English, but...reports must also utilize standardized technical language.

Effective retrieval will require informative titles, cogent abstracts, and

alignment of the titles, abstracts and text of reports with standardized key

word indexes .... Unfruitful work must be reported to assist others in

avoiding the same dead end."' 7

One apparent need of the AFAPL is a central authority or focal

point for processing technical writings and controlling distribution. Cur-

rently the individual offices and divisions are responsible for such activi-

ties, but do not maintain awareness of requirements and procedures for pre-

paration and dissemination of the various types of technical writings. The

establishment of an editorial or writing facility within the laboratory,

however, is not essential at this time, but could evolve.

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2. TASK DEVELOPMENT

The STIFFO Office has not attempted to rewrite or to edit exten-

sively laboratory publications destined for the technical-report (TR) pro-

gram. The Editorial Branch of the Directorate of Engineering Standards and

Technical Information (SEPIE) has this function. The role of STINFO has

been only to clarify the preparation of the report in accordance with Air

Force Regulation 80-20 or Military Standard 847, the completion of DD Form

1473, and the selection of the proper distribution statement according to

Air Force Regulation 310-2.

The STINFO Office has encouraged laboratory personnel to process

other forms of technical writings through its facility, for SEPIE normally

does not handle publications such as the internally distributed technical

memoranda (TM) or conference papers. The result is a standardized format,

centralized dissemination and contact points, and in general a more effec-

tive program for technical publications. In particular, STINFO personnel

have suggested a format for technical memoranda in an effort to improve

internal communication, to preserve raw or incomplete data for use in a

technical report at a later date, and to eliminate the "file-and-forget"

type of effort. STINFO effort on conference papers, journal articles, and

other similar writings has included familiarity with and adherence to the

formats and procedures established by the various societies and organiza-

tions, assistance with graphics, rough-draft and final typing, proofreading

of final copy and returned galley sheets, and proper submission to the

DoD information exhange system.

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An important, related undertaking has been the preparation and dis-

tribution of listings of technical meetings having possible value and/or

interest to AFAPL engineers and scientists. These monthly STINFO compila-

tions alert laboratory personnel of technical meetings to attend and of pub-

lication deadlines to meet in order t7 participate. The information cited

in the listings provides a minimum advance notice of one month and a maximum

of two months. The citations result from screening various publications

containing information related to the technical mission of AFAPL. The number

of citations is listed in Appendix III.

An attempt to establish communication between the STINFO Office and

laboratory personnel resulted in the issuance of the newsletter, STINFO INFO.

The specific purpose of this newsletter has been to explain the developing

function of the STINFO Office and to detail the procedures followed in han-

dling the various facets of technical information. The newsletter has not

been issued on a regular schedule, but as information warranted.

The STINFO Office, thus, has provided editorial, writing, and pre-

paration assistance for technical publications; issued regularly a related

current-awareness compilation; and established a newsletter to achieve inter-

nal communication. A professional editor has developed and defined these

functions. Specific tasks are discussed in Appendix III.

3. MANPOWER REQUIREMENT

A laboratory focal point for processing and distributing technical

writings, rather than an editorial or writing facility, requires a competent,

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responsible, nontechnical person who has knowledge in the following areas:

1. Regulations, formats, procedures, and standardsestablished for the various kinds of technicalpublications

2. Techniques and procedures for the preparation ofgraphics, both line drawings and photographs

3. Printing and reproduction processes and require-ments

4. Distribution regulations.

In addition, this person must have typing skill with a high degree of

accuracy and the ability to prepare tabulations or must have access to such.

Competence in proofreading is also an important factor. Recordkeeping and

file maintenance are at a minimum. Professional supervision of this position

by the STINFO Officer is necessary because of the questions arising concerning

the content of the particular publications.

This person also can handle the technical-meetings compilations

satisfactorily, but with technical supervision in deciding the meeting notices

to include or exclude on the basis of the interests of laboratory personnel.

The preparation and checking of the listings are only part-time tasks and pos-

sibly could be handled within the laboratory public-relations office as the

function of processing and distributing technical writings should be a full-

time responsibility.

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APPENDIX I

LITERATYURE SEARCHES

The STINFO Office received and processed 213 search requests during

the period from July 1965 through December 1966. The search requestors are

identified in Table 1. Processing has resulted in submitting 1041 search

requests to facilities outside the AFAPL. The searching services utilized

are -haw'n in Table II. Search requests submitted Ly SIINFO compared with

search requests received by STINFO have been .ipproximately 3:1, 5:2, and 5:1

for the three periods shown in Lhe tables.

The AFAPL technical operating branches have qubmiLted interest pro-

files for participation in the current-a'-areness searching servies available

through the NASA/SDI a:id the FTD/CfRC programs. The number of SIX piofiles

for each branch is noted in Table Il1. Eacri FTD profile represents a branch.

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DOCUMENT ACQUISITION

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STINFO Office resulted in establishing procedures to increase ýFficieacy

and response time and to eliminate duplication of effort within the labora-

tory. Statistics have been kept only for this reporting period, but do

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requests processed and the sources used to acquire the docum~nt. Table V

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TABLE V

DOCUMENT REQUESTORS: JULY-DECEMBER 1966

Number of Requests

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APP 1 1 - 1 23 10 36

APE 4 - - 1 - - 5

APF - 11 - - - 7 18

APFG 47 54 72 45 65 17 300*

APFL 253 138 20 5 38 59 513

APFT 134 59 97 52 48 8 398**

APG 2 - - - - - 2

APH - 1 - - - 1API 16 - 4 1 2 2 25

APIE-1 7 16 23 14 - 19 79

APIE-2 19 70 95 46 78 48 356APIE-3 6 12 22 30 19 19 108APIP 5 4 1 1 10 - 21

APIP-1 2 20 2 9 13 4 50APIP-2 4 9 1 19 14 12 59APIT 7 2 - -. 9

APIT-l 1 35 2 - 164 - 202APJ - - 1 - - - 1APMD 2 4 2 6 - 4 18

APMO 1 - - - 2 3

APR - - - - 1 1APRC 74 23 22 15 31 16 181APRP 5 6 16 3 21 2 53tAPT - - - - 1 1

APTC 43 75 42 83 91 75 409

APTP 42 7 12 16 6 12 95

STINFO 19 24 20 20 34 17 134

TOTAL 694 571 454 367 657 335 3078tt

* Multiple copies of documents requested increase the total to 399.

** Multiple copies of documents requested increase the total to 588.

t Multiple copies of documents requested increase the total to 163.

tt Multiple copies of documents requested increase the overall total to 3477.

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APPENDIX III

DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

STINFO assistance in the dissemination of information has ranged

from rough-draft typing of technical reports to the complete preparation of

conference presentations and technical memoranda. The specific task

generally is to handle the particular publication from the rough-draft stage

to the distribution of the completed copy, including covers and graphics.

The areas of assistance provided are shown in Table VI.

The STINFO Office performs the related service of issuing at the

beginning of each month a listing of technical meetings and at the middle of

each month a listing of calls for papers to be presented at such meetings;

these compilations contain only meetings of interest to laboratory personnel.

The listings are posted on laboratory bulletin boards and are distributed to

all offices, divisions, and branches. Table VII indicates the number of cita-

tions in the listings issued from July through December 1966. The figures

for previous reporting periods are incomplete since the function was not

developed fully then and, therefore, are not presented here.

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REFERENCES

1. Department of Defense Technical Information, Department of DefenseDirective No. 5100.36, December 31, 1962, p. 1.

2. Research and Development: The Scientific and Technical Information(STINFO) Program, Air Force Regulation No. 80-29, May 18, 1964, p 3.

3. J. M. Tierney, A. T. Dodson, and A. L. Lueck, Establishment of aSTINFO Program for the Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory, Universityof Dayton Research Institute Progress Report No. 1, January 1966.

4. J. M. Tierney, A. T. Dodson, and A. L. Lueck, Establishment of aSTINFO Program for the Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory, Universityof Dayton Research Institute Progress Report No. 2, July 1966.

5. Research and Development: The Scientific and Technical Information(STINFO) Program, Air Force Systems Command Supplement 1 to Air ForceRegulation No. 80-29, February 2, 1965.

6. STINFO Handbook, Department of Defense, March 1965, Volume I, p I-0-v.

7. A. G. Hoshovsky, Editor, Proceedings of the 1st USAF Scientific andTechnical Information Conference, 30 September - 4 October 1963,Dayton, Ohio, Office of Aerospace Research, Report No. OAR-15,AD 450 000.

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Security Classification

DOCUMENT CONTROL DATA - R & D(Security classification of title, body of abs.tract arid ir•d txlrinl ,innotiaric,n c , r is ?,, ,riercd nthe o, -,rtratl r irp rr cI 1 .; ied)

1. ORIGINATING ACTIVITY (Corporate author) Ia. REPORT SECWRITY CLASSIr'ICATION

University of Dayton Research Institute UNCLASSIFIED300 College Park 2b CROUPDayton, Ohio 45409 N/A

3. REPORT TITLE

ESTABLISHMENT OF A STINFO PROGRXN! FOR THE AIR FORCE AERO PROPULSION LABORATORY

4. DESCRIPTIVE NOTES (7ype of report and inctusive dates)

Progress Report, July through December 1966S. AU THORIS (First name, middle initial, last name)

James M. TierneyAnn T. DodsonAntoinette L. Lueck

6. REPORT DATE 78. TOTAL NO. OF PAGES 17b, NO. OF REFS

August 1967 33 7@a. CONTRACT OR GRANT NO. go. ORIGINATOR'S REPORT NLIMPER(S)

AF 33(615)-2993b, PROJECT NO.

N/A UDRI-PR-67-136C. 9h. OTHER REPORT NO(S) (Any otUher numbers that miay be wssigned

this report)

d. N/A10. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT

This document has been approved for public release and sale; its distribution isunlimited.

11 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES lie. SPONSORING MILITARY ACTIVITY

N/A Air Force Aero Propulsion LaboratoryAFSC

_Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio13. ABSTRACT

The STINFO Office, established and staffed by the University of Dayton ResearchInstitute (UDRI) within the Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory (AFAPL) underContract AF 33(615)-2993, has completed eighteen months of operation. The staffof an average of seven full-time persons during this period has defined the needsof the AFAPL engineering personnel for scientific and technical information andhas established a program to satisfy those needs. Basically this program consistsof three main functions: literature searching, document acquisition and storage,and the dissemination of information. The procedures associated with these functionsare described in detail and statistics are presented to account for the day-to-dayactivities.

STINWO personnel, after establishing the program, are to train government employeesin a six-month period to assume operation of the program after completion of thecontract. Therefore, task descriptions and staffing requirements are included.

DD, ,. 1473 UNCLASS0FIED