[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 90 (Thursday, May 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 31283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11533]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Discriminate Use 
of Force (formerly known as the Task Force on Precision Compellence) 
will meet in closed session on September 25-26, 2002, and October 21-
22, 2002, at SAIC, 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA. The Task Force 
will conduct a comprehensive study of the ends and means 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 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 rouge 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, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II), it has been 
determined that these Defense Science Board Task Force meetings concern 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, these 
meetings will be closed to the public.

    Dated: May 3, 2002.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 02-11533 Filed 5-8-02; 8:45 am]
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