Benefits to Electronic Submission
Migration to an electronic transmittal system will provide both immediate
and long term benefits to everyone who utilizes DTIC's services.
On
the input side, contributors will no longer have to deal with the costs
and hassles of physical document shipping. Additionally, shipping time
is dramatically reduced from several days to instantaneous. For the
end users, documents that originally contained color graphics will retain
this feature when downloaded from Public STINET/Private STINET. Future
hyper textual enhancements may also be made possible by the electronic
document transmittal system.
The system is an easy-to-use data entry system for submitting a "Report
Documentation Page" (SF-298), along with the corresponding
technical report. Since contributors should already be familiar with
SF-298, electronic document submission entails no added steps or paperwork.
After a contributor enters all of the available unclassified data, the
browser encrypts everything and transmits it to DTIC's TR server via
the Internet. Once the SF-298 and the file reach DTIC's server, the
SF-298 is inserted into the document file (immediately following the
title page). The document file is then converted to PDF format and processed
into our Electronic Document Management System (EDMS).
Available Electronic Document Submission Systems:
There are two systems available for electronically submitting technical reports to DTIC:
- STINT-TR/EDOC: A general system tailored for the processing of all technical reports.
- SBIR/STTR Technical Report Submission Toolkit: A system tailored for the processing of Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) technical reports.
