[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 1, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61604-61605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24825]


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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 sessions on October 3-4, 2002, in Littleton, CO; 
October 15-17, 2002, in Los Angeles, CA, and Colorado Springs, CO; and 
October 30-November 1, 2002, in Chantilly, VA. This Task Force will 
review the acquisition of National Security Space Programs and make 
recommendations to improve the

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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 [chyph]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 [chyph]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. 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. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, these meetings will be closed 
to the public.
    Due to critical mission requirements, there was insufficient time 
to provide timely notice of the October 3-4, 2002, meeting required by 
section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and subsection 
101-6.1015(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: September 25, 2002.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 02-24825 Filed 9-30-02; 8:45 am]
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