[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 249 (Thursday, December 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 77151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-24568]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board; Meetings

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee Meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Capabilities 
will meet in closed session on January 4, 2006, at the Institute for 
Defense Analysis (IDA), 4850 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, VA. This 
meeting will be an Executive Session for draft report writing and 
discussion.
    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: Assess the current 
plan for sustaining the nuclear weapons stockpile and make 
recommendations for ensuring the future reliability, safety, security, 
and relevance of the nuclear weapons stockpile for the 21st century; 
examine the DoD role in defining needs in the nuclear weapons stockpile 
and recommend changes in institutional arrangements to ensure an 
appropriate DoD role; assess progress towards the goal of an integrated 
new triad of strike capabilities (nuclear, advanced conventional, and 
non-kinetic) within the new triad of strike, defense and 
infrastructure; examine a wide range of alternative institutional 
arrangements that could provide for more efficient management of the 
nuclear enterprise; examine approaches to evolving the stockpile with 
weapons that are simpler to manufacture and that can be sustained with 
a smaller, less complex, less expensive design, development, 
certification and production enterprise; and examine plans to transform 
the nuclear weapons production complex to provide a capability to 
respond promptly to changes in the threat environment with new designs 
or designs evolved with previously tested nuclear components.
    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 these Defense Science Board Task Force meetings concern 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, the 
meetings will be closed to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC Scott Dolgoff, USA, Defense 
Science Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 3C553, Washington, DC 20301-
3140, via e-mail at [email protected], or via phone at (703) 571-
0082.
    Due to scheduling difficulties, there is insufficient time to 
provide timely notice required by section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act and subsection 102-3.150(b) of the GSA Final Rule on 
Federal Advisory Committee Management, 41 CFR 102-3.150(b), which 
further requires publication at least 15 calendar days prior to the 
meeting.

    Dated: December 22, 2005.
L.M. Bynum,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 05-24568 Filed 12-28-05; 8:45 am]
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