[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 169 (Friday, August 30, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 55822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-22141]


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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 Joint Defense Science Board/Air Force Scientific Advisory 
Board Task Force on the Acquisition of National Security Space Programs 
will meet in closed session on August 28-29, 2002 at SAIC, Chantilly, 
VA; and September 18-19, 2002, in Los Angeles, CA. This Task Force will 
review the acquisition of National Security Space Programs and make 
recommendations to improve the acquisition of space programs from their 
initiation to deployment.
    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 Task Force will focus on what matters to providing 
national security advantage to the United States and look at the 
problem in as holistic a fashion as possible, considering the entire 
space acquisition process, including industry suppliers as well as 
government acquirers. The assessment will consider what is happening in 
the four interconnected sectors of the space business--commercial, 
civil, intelligence and military. Personnel issues, including numbers, 
skills, experience and demographics of space professionals (including 
CAAS and FFRDC personnel) as well as effects of corporate mergers in 
all these areas may be included. The assessment will also consider all 
aspects of the government's role in managing and funding space system 
acquisition--SPO, PEO, Science and Technology, Major Command, Service 
Headquarters, OSD, NRO, NASA and Congress--to derive insights.
    In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, Pub. L. No. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II), it has been 
determined that these Task Force meetings concern matters listed in 5 
U.S.C. Sec. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, these meetings will be 
closed to the public.
    Due to critical mission requirements and the short timeframe to 
accomplish this review (an interim report is due in September), there 
was insufficient time to provide timely notice required by Section 
10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and Subsection 101-
6.105(b) of the GSA Final Rule on Federal Advisory Committee 
Management, 41 CFR Part 101-6, which further requires publication at 
least 15 calendar days prior to the first meeting of the Task Force on 
the Acquisition of National Security Space Programs.

    Dated: August 26, 2002.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 02-22141 Filed 8-29-02; 8:45 am]
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