[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 24, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59830-59831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24188]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of advisory committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Unmanned Aerial 
Vehicles (UAV) and Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) will meet 
in closed session on October 7, 2002; October 29-30, 2002; and December 
3, 2002, at Strategic Analysis Inc., 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, 
VA. The Task Force will review UAV/UCAV systems with special emphasis 
on affordability and increasing costs, interoperability disconnects, 
communications architectures to include bandwidth and redundancy, 
accident rates, operational control in both FAA airspace and military 
restricted airspace, survivability, military utility analysis, and 
management approaches.
    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 identify principal 
impediments to full and rapid exploitiation of the joint warfighting 
potential of UAW and UCAV systems and, further, recommend how these 
constraints might be mitigated or removed.
    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 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.


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    Dated: September 18, 2002.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternative OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of 
Defense.
[FR Doc. 02-24188 Filed 9-23-02; 8:45 am]
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