[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 180 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49691-49692]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24930]


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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, 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

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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, September 22, from 8:00 
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, September 23, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 
p.m.; and Thursday, September 24, 1998, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Office of Naval Research, 
800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, Virginia, on September 22 and 23, 
1998. On September 24, 1998, the meeting will be held at the DCS 
Corporation, 1225 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

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 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 
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. 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: September 10, 1998.
Ralph W. Corey,
LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-24930 Filed 9-16-98; 8:45 am]
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