[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 59 (Friday, March 26, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 15820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6760]


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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 (DSB) Task Force on Strategic Strike 
Skills will meet in closed session on April 14, 2004, in Arlington, VA. 
The Task Force will assess the future strategic strike force skills 
needs of the Department of Defense (DoD).
    The mission of the DSB 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. Last summer the DSB assessed DoD needs 
for future strategic strike forces. Assessed was the application of 
technology for non-nuclear weapons systems, communications, planning 
systems, and intelligence as well as the integration of strategic 
strike with active defenses as part of the new triad. This ``skills'' 
study will complement the previous strategic forces study by focusing 
on the people and the skills necessary to develop, maintain, plan, and 
successfully execute future strategic strike forces. At this meeting, 
the Task Force will: Assess current skills available, both nuclear and 
non-nuclear of current long-range strike forces; identify, assess and 
recommend new/modified/enhanced skill sets necessary for successful 
future strike force development, planning, and operations; and 
recommend a strategy for the successful evolution of the current skills 
to those required by future strike 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 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 22, 2004.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 04-6760 Filed 3-25-04; 8:45 am]
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