[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 203 (Monday, October 21, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 64635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26635]


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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 November 7-8, 2002; and November 18-20, 
2002, in Chantilly, VA. 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 Force3 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 inter-connected 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, Public Law 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.

    Dated: October 11, 2002.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 02-26635 Filed 10-18-02; 8:45 am]
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