[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 5513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-2323]


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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 Integrated Fire 
Support in the Battlespace will tentatively meet in closed session on 
April 21-22, 2004, location to be determined. The Task Force will apply 
the methodology developed in the 2001 Precision Targeting Summer Study 
to broadly develop the system of systems required to provide truly 
integrated fire support.
    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 assess: The adequacy 
of current and proposed munitions with respect to speed, accuracy, 
lethality, cost, etc., to meet the spectrum of threats; Intelligence 
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) techniques and mechanisms to meet 
the needs of tactical and operational battlefield forces; the adequacy 
of battlefield command and control and integration techniques for 
tactical, operational, and strategic forces operating on the 
battlefield; the current impediments to a fully integrated Air, Land 
and Sea fire support; and the need for predictive engagement tools and 
derived intelligence products to guide the battlefield commander in the 
use of forces to shape the outcome to the desired effect.
    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 Force meeting concerns 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, the 
meeting will be closed to the public.

    January 30, 2004.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 04-2323 Filed 2-4-04; 8:45 am]
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