[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR249.4]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
        CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED)
 
PART 249_PRESENTATION OF DoD-RELATED SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPERS AT 
 
Sec. 249.4  Policy.

    It is DoD policy to:
    (a) Encourage the presentation of scientific and technical 
information generated by or for the Department of Defense at technical 
meetings consistent with United States laws and the requirements of 
national security.
    (b) Permit DoD Components to conduct scientific and technical 
conferences, and to permit DoD Component personnel to attend and 
participate in scientific and technical conferences that are of 
demonstrable value to the Department of Defense, and consult with 
professional societies and associations in organizing meetings of the 
societies and associations that are mutually beneficial.
    (c) Allow the publication and public presentation of unclassified 
contracted fundamental research results. The mechanism for control of 
information generated by DoD-funded contracted fundamental research in 
science, technology, and engineering performed under contract or grant 
at colleges, universities, and non-government laboratories is security 
classification. No other type of control is authorized unless required 
by law.
    (d) Release information at meetings in a manner consistent with 
statutory and regulatory requirements for protecting the information. 
Such requirements include, but are not limited to, protection of 
classified, unclassified export-controlled, proprietary, privacy, and 
foreign government provided information.
    (e) Provide timely review of DoD employee and contractor papers 
intended for presentation at scientific and technical conferences and 
meetings, and if warranted and authorized by contract in the case of 
contractor employees, prescribe limitations on these presentations. 
Dissemination restrictions shall be used only when appropriate authority 
exists.
    (f) Assist DoD contractors and, when practical, others in 
determining the

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sensitivity of or the applicability of export controls to technical data 
proposed for public disclosure.
    (g) Approve release of classified or controlled unclassified DoD 
information to foreign representatives when such release promotes mutual 
security or advances the interests of an international military 
agreement or understanding in accordance with foreign disclosure 
policies of the Department of Defense. Presentation of such information 
at technical meetings attended by foreign representatives is appropriate 
when the release is made under the terms of existing security 
arrangements and when the Department of Defense and receiving government 
have established an understanding or agreement in that specific 
scientific or technical area.
    (h) Refrain from interfering with the planning and organizing of 
meetings sponsored and conducted by non-government organizations. The 
type and level of DoD participation in such meetings will be determined 
taking account of such factors as benefit to the Department of Defense 
and how the meetings are being conducted.