[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 163 (Monday, August 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45051-45052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22731]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Meeting of the Naval Research Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) Panel on Global 
Positioning System (GPS) Vulnerability and Alternatives will meet to 
examine the vulnerabilities of the GPS on Navy and Marine Corps 
platforms and weapons systems. All sessions of the meeting will be 
devoted to briefings, tours, discussions and technical examination of 
information related to GPS vulnerabilities; the Department of the 
Navy's mitigation plans for platforms, weapons, communications, and 
intelligence systems as related to the projected threat; GPS 
modernization; and research, development, test, acquisition, and 
training activities to improve GPS-related military readiness and 
precision navigation capabilities. All sessions of the meeting will be 
closed to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 25, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, August 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and 
Thursday, August 27, 1998, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Naval Research Laboratory, 
4555 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, on August 25; at the Applied 
Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Road, 
Laurel, Maryland, on August 26; and at the Office of Naval Research, 
800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, Virginia, on August 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Mason-Muir, Program Director, 
Naval Research Advisory Committee, 800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, 
VA 22217-5660, telephone number: (703) 696-6769.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of meeting is provided in 
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 
U.S.C. App. 2). All sessions of the meeting will be devoted to 
briefings, tours and discussions involving technical examination of 
information related to vulnerabilities and deficiencies of the GPS on 
Navy and Marine Corps platforms and weapons systems. These briefings, 
tours and discussions will contain classified information that is 
specifically authorized under criteria established by Executive Order 
to be kept secret in the interest of national defense and are in fact 
properly classified pursuant to such Executive Order. The classified 
and non-classified matters to be discussed are so inextricably 
intertwined as to preclude opening any portion of the meeting. In 
accordance with 5 U.S.C.

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App. 2, section 10(d), the Secretary of the Navy has determined in 
writing that the public interest requires that all sessions of the 
meeting be closed to the public because they will be concerned with 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. section 552b(c)(1). Due to unavoidable delay 
in the administrative process of preparing for this meeting, the normal 
15 day notice could not be provided.

    Dated: August 19, 1998.
Ralph W. Corey,
LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-22731 Filed 8-21-98; 8:45 am]
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