[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 48 (Monday, March 13, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12684-12685]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-2376]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee Meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Technology Vectors 
will meet in closed session on March 13 and 14, 2006; at Strategic 
Analysis, Inc. (SAI), 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 500, Arlington, VA. 
This meeting will be a plenary meeting used to map the study's 
direction and begin discussion on what will be the Technology Vectors 
DoD will need for the 21st century.
    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: Review previous 
attempts by DoD to identify critical technologies in order to derive 
lessons that would help illuminate the current challenge; identify the 
National Security objectives for the 21st century and the operational 
missions that U.S. military will be called upon to support these 
objectives; identify new operational capabilities needed for the 
proposed missions; identify the critical science technology, and other 
related enablers of the desired capabilities; assess current S&T 
investment plans' relevance to the needed operational capabilities and 
enablers and recommend needed changes to the plans; identify mechanisms 
to accelerate and assure the transition into U.S. military 
capabilities; and review and recommend changes as needed, the current 
processes by which national security objectives and needed operational 
capabilities are used to develop and prioritize science, technology, 
and other related enablers, and how those enablers are then developed.
    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:  LCDR Clifton Phillips, USN, Defense 
Science Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 3C553, Washington, DC 20301-
3140, via e-mail at

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[email protected], or via phone at (703) 571-0083.
    Due to scheduling and work burden 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: March 7, 2006.
L.M. Bynum,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 06-2376 Filed 3-10-06; 8:45 am]
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