[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 9643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4791]


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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 February 27-28, 2003, and March 27-28, 2003, 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 exploitation of the joint warfighting 
potential of UAV and UCAV systems and, further, recommend how these 
constraints might be mitigated or removed.
    In accordance with section 19(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, Public Law 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.
    Due to critical mission requirements and scheduling conflicts, 
there is insufficient time to provide timely notice required by section 
19(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 a Task Force meeting.

    Dated: February 14, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register, Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-4791 Filed 2-27-03; 8:45 am]
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