STI Managers/representatives participating in December 5 Teleconference: Shannon Savage (ANL), Bruce Style (BNL), Teresa Garbaccio (BN), Dawn Snelson (CHO), Stephanie Janicek (Hanford Site/FDHI), Dale Claflin (INEEL), Jackie Stack (LANL), Mary Donahue (NREL), Anne Raible (OAK), Dennis Gound (ORO), Sue Ekkebus (ORISE), Dave Hamrin (ORNL), Cheryl Page (PNNL), Yvonne Sherman (RLO), Dorothy Riehle (RLO), Dorothy Martin (SNL), Mina Perrin (SRO), Kevin Schmidt (SRS), Cathy Witker (SRS), Betty Robinette (Y-12/LMES), Betty Moore (YMP), Lee Stemley (YMP). Please send additions/corrections directly to waldropk@osti.gov. March 2002 STI Meeting - Kathy Waldrop discussed details regarding the rescheduled STI meeting originally scheduled for November 7-8, 2001 at Argonne, Illinois. The meeting will be held Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at the Denver Marriott City Center, 1701 California Street, Denver, Colorado. The meeting will be held in conjunction with DOE's Annual Information Technology Conference (AITC). Because some STIP Managers plan to attend both the AITC and STI Meetings, the STI Meeting block of rooms is reserved for March 17-March 20. When making room reservations (1-800-444-2206 or 303-297-1300), reference the STI Meeting. Reservations must be made by February 24, in order to receive the government per diem rate of $112.00 (plus tax) per night. There maybe a STIP get-together the evening of Tuesday, March 19. The agenda is forthcoming. Annual Information Technology Conference (AITC) - Lynn Davis shared the theme for this year's AITC, "Achieving IT Excellence in a Changing World." The AITC is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, March 18-19, 2002, at the Denver Marriott City Center. The conference URL provides more details (http://cio.doe.gov/aitc/index.html). OSTI appreciates those who submitted abstracts to the AITC. A good many were received and are being reviewed by the Steering Committee. The resulting conference agenda will be sent out late December and posted on the AITC 2002 web site. The Awards Committee is getting kicked off and more information should be coming out in January, 2002. DOE Directives Review - Kathy Waldrop communicated the status of the Performance Based Contracts: Order Review which included the DOE O 241.1A on a list with many other DOE Orders for review to determine if the government's level of "process" direction could be reduced for performance-based contracts. Within the DOE Directives Management System, there are over 70 orders that contain requirements (i.e., a Contractor Requirements Document (CRD)) which are made directly applicable to contractors. DOE O 241.1A is just one of those orders. Comments submitted by the DOE Field elements or contractors were specifically to identify requirements or processes that were unnecessary, overly prescriptive, outdated, inappropriate, duplicative, or inconsistent with Government-wide contracting concepts. Each Order will have an assessment team at Headquarters assigned to re-assess the nature and extent of DOE Order requirements on DOE contractors and ultimately to be concurred on by the Under Secretaries. Of the offices and contractors who responded to the review, only three had comments specific to DOE O 241.1A. Only one of the three comments was a complaint. No changes to the DOE O 241.1A are foreseen. Web Site Review - Karen Spence described a one-time Web site review activity that OSTI has been conducting as a result of recent events. Per this review and as requested by several sites, OSTI has been removing selected full-text and bibliographic information from public versions of Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database. OSTI will notify the field offices and contractors with a report of the documents that have been removed in early January. As sites identify specific documents be removed from public view, they should notify OSTI. If submitting sites determine specific documents that have been removed are ready to be re-posted, they should contact OSTI. Jackie Stack mentioned the initial action taken at Los Alamos which was to take their technical reports off-line. More recently, the technical reports are available on line to those with .gov and .mil addresses. The documents are also available on the DOE versions of Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database. Miscellaneous - Kathy Waldrop suggested that the February 2002 Teleconference may be canceled since we will have an STI Meeting on March 20, 2002, in Denver. No other subjects were discussed.
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