[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 132 (Monday, July 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42338-42339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17367]


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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.

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SUMMARY: The Naval Research Advisory Committee will meet to discuss 
basic and advanced research and technology. All sessions of the 
meetings will be devoted to briefings, discussions and technical 
examination of information related to an assessment of current and 
projected operational requirements, deficiencies and vulnerabilities of 
the Navy and Marine Corps command and control systems in order to 
recommend a Department of the Navy strategy for developing a next 
generation maritime command and control capability, and an examination 
of quality of work life issues for Sailors and Marines in order to 
anticipate what they will be for the 21st century and recommend Navy 
and Marine Corps responses to the new challenges.

DATES: The meetings will be held on Monday, July 17 through Friday, 
July 21, 2000, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday, July 24 through Thursday, 
July 27, 2000, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Friday, July 28, 2000, from 
8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Space and Naval Warfare 
Systems Center San Diego, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, California.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of meetings is provided in 
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 
U.S.C. App. 2). All sessions of the meetings will be devoted to 
briefings, discussions and technical examination of information related 
to an assessment of command and control technical options, including 
technical risk/benefits and functional ramifications; examination of 
lessons learned from the naval operating forces in the context of 
network-centric options; identification of information infrastructure 
framework to support advanced command, control communications, 
computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) 
concepts and mission capabilities; identification of emerging science 
and technology opportunities to meet joint command center C4ISR 
requirements; assessment

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of historical and current quality of work life areas and institutional 
responses; identification of quality of work life issues that arise as 
consequences of changes in population characteristics and job demands; 
determination of quality of work life requirements for the 21st 
century; evaluation of analytical quality of work life assessment 
methods for identifying the impact of problems and measuring the impact 
of efforts for problem mitigation; assessment of the current 
institutionalized responses to emerging challenges; and assessment of 
the focus areas. These briefings and discussions will contain 
classified and proprietary 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) and (4).

    Dated: June 30, 2000.
C.G. Carlson,
Major, U.S. Marine Corps, Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-17367 Filed 7-7-00; 8:45 am]
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