[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 238 (Tuesday, December 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 64023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30493]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board; meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Precision 
Compellence will meet in closed session on January 3-4, 2002, at SAIC, 
4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA. The Task Force will conduct a 
comprehensive study of the ends and means of precision compellence, of 
the nuanced use of force, in concert with coalition partners, to 
achieve political, economic and moral change in countries affecting 
U.S. interests.
    The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secretary 
of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
Technology & Logistics on scientific and technical matters as they 
affect the perceived needs of the Department of Defense. At this 
meeting, the Defense Science Board Task Force will survey the focused 
use of force so as to alter regimes' behavior, and in ways that are 
most promising to isolate regimes of concern from their populations and 
supporting organs and bureaucracies. This will include the means to 
acquire a well-founded conceptual delineation of targets critically 
important to the diplomatic, economic and military dominance of the 
regime. A regime's values and vulnerabilities being highly 
idiosyncratic, the Task Force shall select some concrete case studies 
for exploration in depth. These might include current rogue states, 
terrorist organizations, and future potential adversaries. Of 
particular relevance are the cleavage planes, where the discriminating 
use of force might divide the interests of different strata, political, 
ethnic or religious groups, or even personal rivalries.
    In accordance with section 10(D) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, P.L. No. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II), it has been 
determined that this Defense Science Board meeting concerns matters 
listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, this meting will 
be closed to the public.

    Dated: November 21, 2001.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 01-30493 Filed 12-10-01; 8:45 am]
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