[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11811-11812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5866]


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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 April 15-16, 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 achitectures to 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 this 
meeting. The Defense Science Board Task Force will identify principal 
impediments to full and rapid exploitation of the joint warfighting

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potential of UAV 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 this Defense Science Board Task Force meeting concerns 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, the 
meeting will be closed to the public.

    Dated: March 5, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-5866 Filed 3-11-03; 8:45 am]
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