[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 97 (Friday, May 20, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29289-29290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10157]


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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 Improvised Devices 
(IEDs) will meet in closed session on June 23-24, 2005; July 26-27, 
2005, at Strategic Analysis, Inc., 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, 
VA. The Task Force will explore methods and techniques to significantly 
reduce the effects of IEDs on U.S. and coalition forces in operations 
such as are currently being conducted in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). 
The Task Force should examine ways to counter the use as well as 
mitigate the consequences of IEDs. The Task Force should examine ways 
to counter the use as well as mitigate the consequences of IEDs.

DATES: June 23-24, 2005, and July 26-27, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Strategic Analysis, Inc., 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, 
VA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC Scott Dolgoff, USA, Defense 
Science Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 3D865, Washington, DC 20301-
3140, via e-mail at [email protected], or via phone at (703) 695-
4158.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 
consider the entire spectrum of intervention objects, including 
deterrence, dissuasion, remote predetonation, remote disarming, 
elimination of sources and/or manufacturing facilities, discovery and 
remove of critical personnel, discovery and removal of employed 
devices, or anything else that has the end effect of either lowing the 
value or raising the cost of employing IEDs as an insurgent or 
terrorist weapons of choice. The Task Force will have four primary 
objectives: assess the current state of the art of allied forces in 
countering adversary use of IEDs in operations such as OIF; recommend a 
mid-to-long term set of integrated activities aimed at improving the 
state of the art in reducing the effect of IEDs over the next three to 
ten years; provide recommendations on short term (over the next six 
months to three years) incremental improvements in U.S. forces' ability 
to counter or reduce the effectiveness of IEDs, and identify any 
synergies that may exist between current counter-IED and countermine 
efforts.
    In accordance with section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), 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.


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    Dated: May 17, 2005.
Jeannette Owings-Ballard,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 05-10157 Filed 5-19-05; 8:45 am]
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