# Defense Technical Information Center

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/defense-technical-information-center/  
**Website:** https://www.dtic.mil  
**APIs profiled:** 5

The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is the U.S. Department of Defense field activity that acquires, manages, and disseminates scientific and technical information from DoD-funded research, development, test, and evaluation. DTIC operates a public Research and Engineering (R&E) Gateway, the Discover service for searching technical reports, the DoDTechSpace and Minsky natural-language platforms for defense researchers, and Dimensions for collaborative discovery. Most DTIC services require authentication tied to DoD or registered-user roles. DTIC does not publicly publish a developer API, though tools such as Dimensions and Minsky offer programmatic capabilities to authorized users.

## Kin Score — 12.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 14.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **DTIC Website** — Public-facing website of the Defense Technical Information Center describing DTIC services, products, and access programs. The site links to Discover, R&E Gateway, training, and...
- **DTIC Discover** — Search platform for DTIC's collection of technical reports and other scientific and technical information assets. Discover offers faceted search, citation export, and document d...
- **DTIC Research and Engineering (R&E) Gateway** — Authenticated portal for DoD researchers and registered users to access DTIC research and engineering resources, planning documents, and program information.
- **DoDTechSpace** — Collaboration platform for DoD scientists, engineers, and program managers operated by DTIC for sharing knowledge, communities of practice, and project information.
- **DTIC FOIA Reading Room** — Online portal that publishes records released under the Freedom of Information Act. Records are browsable and downloadable but there is no documented API.

## Security (1)

- **Defense Technical Information Center Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Defense Technical Information Center Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Defense, Department of Defense, DTIC, Federal-Government, Knowledge-Management, Library, Research, Scientific and Technical Information

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/defense-technical-information-center/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.