[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 241 (Friday, December 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64810-64811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30845]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board; Meeting

AGENCY: 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 February 25-26, 2002, and 
March 26-27, 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 US 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 these 
meetings, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Precision Compellence 
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,

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ethnic or religious groups, or even personal rivalries.
    In accordance with section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II), it has been 
determined that these Defense Science Board meetings concern matters 
listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, these meetings 
will be closed to the public.

    Dated: December 7, 2001.
 L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 01-30845 Filed 12-13-01; 8:45 am]
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