[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 11812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5868]


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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 Defense Science Board Task Force on Ends vice Means will 
meet in closed session on March 25, 2003; April 30, 2003; and May 20, 
2003, at SAIC, 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA. The Task Force 
will review and evaluate alternative ways of managing US foreign 
intelligence endeavors in support of national security, by focusing not 
on the means by which intelligence information is collected, but rather 
the ends it is to serve.
    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: define the DoD 
needs for better integrated intelligence products (e.g., products to 
support DoD missions from an effects based perspective); review and 
evaluate, within the current context, recent, extant prescriptions for 
reform of US intelligence; identify those individuals currently charged 
with answering intelligence questions and ascertain the actual degree 
of influence they wield over the process; solicit from current Program 
Managers in the Intelligence Community their ideas on how the processes 
they now manage can be made more responsive to intelligence ends; 
articulate the vision for managing US intelligence according to 
``ends'' instead of ``means''; prescribe the core changes that would be 
required to reorient the US Intelligence Community toward the ends 
satisfied rather than means undertaken; and evaluate the potential 
costs and benefits of such reformation, recognizing the debilitation 
that can accompany significant change.
    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 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.

    Dated: March 5, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-5868 Filed 3-11-03; 8:45 am]
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