Pentagon’s R&D repository to lose nearly 80% of its staff. The Defense Technical Information Center was created in 1945 “to serve as a centralized repository of R&D information, allowing DoD to easily and effectively leverage and share technical knowledge," wrote Defense Undersecretary for Research and Engineering Emil Michael , in an Aug. 4. memo . "However, its unfocused organizational model and legacy information platform are not suited to keep pace with global R&D, take advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI), or integrate with other data and intelligence systems that support strategic deterrence-impacting R&D investment decisions by the Department of Defense."

Forty of the 190-plus DTIC employees will stay, having been IDd as mission-essential . All other civilians will re

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