[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 118 (Thursday, June 19, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36772-36773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15414]


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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 Enabling Joint Force 
Capabilities will, tentatively meet in closed session August 26, 2003, 
at the U.S. Strategic Command; September 2, 2003, at Joint Forces 
Command; and September 22, 2003, at SAIC, 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, 
Arlington, VA. This Task Force will review the current state of 
assigned responsibilities and accountability for joint capabilities to 
quickly bring combat forces together and focus them on joint objectives 
across a wide spectrum of possible contingencies and will help identify 
unfilled needs and areas where assigned responsibility and 
accountability calls for further clarification and/or organizational 
arrangements.
    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 specific 
characteristics and examples of organizations that could be capable of 
accepting responsibility and accountability for delivering the 
capability with needed responsiveness, and will recommend further steps 
to strengthen the joint structure ability to quickly integrate service-
provided force capabilities into effective joint forces.
    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 the Defense Science Board Task Force meetings concern 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, the 
meetings will be closed to the public.


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    Dated: June 12, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-15414 Filed 6-18-03; 8:45 am]
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