[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 164 (Thursday, August 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49915-49916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16911]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE


Office of the Secretary; Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD).

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee meeting; improvised explosive 
devices (IEDs).

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Improvised Explosive 
Devices (IEDs) will meet in closed session on September 13, 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: September 13, 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 3C553, Washington, DC 20301-
3140, via

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e-mail at [email protected], or via phone at (703) 571-0082.

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 pre-detonation, 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 lowering 
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, Pub. L. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), 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, this 
meeting will be closed to the public.

    Dated: August 19, 2005.
Jeannette Owings-Ballard,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 05-16911 Filed 8-24-05; 8:45 am]
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