[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 222 (Tuesday, November 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65037-65038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28696]


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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 on December 16, 
2003, at Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, 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 the 
meeting, 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, Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II), it has been 
determined that this defense Science Board Task

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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: November 7, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-28696 Filed 11-17-03; 8:45 am]
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