[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 241 (Monday, December 16, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76116-76117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29772]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Establishment of the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel

AGENCY: DoD.

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory Committee.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense gives notice that it is renewing the 
charter for the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel (``the Panel''). 
The Panel has been determined to be in the public interest.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Freeman, Advisory Committee 
Management Officer for the Department of Defense, 703-692-5952.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Federal Advisory Committee is being 
renewed under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 
1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 
U.S.C. 552b), and 41 CFR 102-3.50(a).
    The Panel shall provide independent advice and recommendations on 
critical matters concerning the Department of the Navy, as set forth in 
this notice.
    The Panel's focus will include Department of the Navy 
administration and management, recruitment and training, equipment 
acquisition and maintenance, military and civilian manpower systems, 
basing and support infrastructure, and logistical support. The Panel 
will also focus on research and development matters confronting the 
U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps and on matters pertaining to 
preserving the history and heritage of the Naval Services.
    The Panel shall be composed of no more than 15 members. The members 
will be eminent authorities in the fields of science, research, 
finance, history, engineering, business, and industry.
    The Panel members will be appointed by the Secretary of Defense or 
the Deputy Secretary of Defense for a term of service of one-to-four 
years and their appointments will be renewed on an annual basis in 
accordance with DoD policies and procedures. Members of the Panel who 
are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal employees will be 
appointed as experts and consultants under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 
3109 to serve as special government employee (SGE) members. Panel 
members who are full-time or permanent part-time Federal employees will 
serve as regular government employee members. All members of the Panel 
are appointed to provide advice on behalf of the Government on the 
basis of their best judgment without representing any particular point 
of view and in a manner that is free from conflict of interest.
    Panel members, if appointed by the Secretary of Defense or the 
Deputy Secretary of Defense as SGE members, will serve without 
compensation. However, Panel members will be reimbursed for travel and 
per diem as it pertains to official business of the Panel.
    No member, unless authorized by the Secretary of Defense, may serve 
more than two consecutive terms of service on the Panel, to include its 
subcommittees, or serve on two DoD federal advisory committees at one 
time.
    The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
Navy, shall appoint the Panel's chairperson from the total membership.
    The Secretary of the Navy, pursuant to DoD policies and procedures, 
may appoint, as deemed necessary, non-voting subject matter experts 
(SMEs) to assist the Panel or its subcommittees on an ad hoc basis. 
These non-voting SMEs are not members of the Panel or its 
subcommittees, and will not engage or participate in any deliberations 
by the Panel or its subcommittees. These non-voting SMEs, if not full-
time or part-time Government employees, will be appointed under the 
authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109 on an intermittent basis to address specific 
issues under consideration by the Panel.
    DoD, as necessary and consistent with the Panel's mission and DoD 
policies and procedures, may establish subcommittees, task forces, or 
working groups to support the Panel.
    Establishment of subcommittees will be based upon a written 
determination, to include terms of reference, by the Secretary of 
Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy, 
as the DoD Sponsor.
    Such subcommittees shall not work independently of the chartered 
Panel, and shall report all their recommendations and advice solely to 
the Panel for full deliberation and discussion. Subcommittees, task 
forces, or working groups have no authority to make decisions and 
recommendations, verbally or in writing, on behalf of the chartered 
Panel. No subcommittee or any of its members can update or report, 
verbally or in writing, directly to the DoD or any Federal officers or 
employees.
    All subcommittee members shall be appointed in the same manner as 
the Panel members; that is, the Secretary of Defense or the Deputy 
Secretary of Defense shall appoint subcommittee members even if the 
member in question is already a member of the Panel. Subcommittee 
members, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, may serve a 
term of one-to-four years; however, no member shall serve more than two 
consecutive terms of service on the subcommittee.
    Subcommittee members, if not full-time or part-time Federal 
employees, will be appointed as experts and consultants under the 
authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as SGE members, whose appointments 
must be renewed on an annual basis. With the exception of reimbursement 
for travel and per diem as it pertains to official travel related to 
the Panel or its subcommittees, Panel subcommittee members shall serve 
without compensation.
    Each subcommittee member is appointed to provide advice on behalf 
of the Government on the basis of his or her best judgment without 
representing any particular point of view and in a manner that is free 
from conflict of interest.
    All subcommittees operate under the provisions of the FACA, the 
Sunshine Act, governing Federal statutes and regulations, and 
established DoD policies and procedures.
    Currently, DoD has approved the following two permanent 
subcommittees to the Panel:
    (a) The Naval Research Advisory Committee shall be composed of not 
more than seven members and shall provide independent advice and 
recommendations on scientific, technical, research, and development 
matters confronting the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Pursuant 
to 10 U.S.C. 5024(a), the subcommittee shall consist of civilians 
preeminent in the fields of science, research, and development work, 
and one member must be from the field of medicine.
    The estimated number of meetings is four per year.

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    (b) The Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval 
History shall be composed of not more than 15 members and shall provide 
independent advice and recommendations on matters pertaining to 
preserving the heritage and legacy of the Naval Services and 
disseminating their rich history to the Service and the American 
public. Advisory topics may include professional standards, methods, 
program priorities, cooperative relationships in Marine Corps and 
Navy's historical research and publication programs, museums, archives, 
archeology, libraries, manuscript collections, rare book collections, 
art collections, preservation, and curatorial activities. The 
subcommittee shall consist of civilians who have broad managerial 
experience, vision, and understanding in one or more of the following 
areas: military and maritime history, archives, museology, art, library 
science, and information technology.
    The estimated number of meetings is one per year.
    The Panel's Designated Federal Officer (DFO), pursuant to DoD 
policy, shall be a full-time or permanent part-time DoD employee, and 
will be appointed in accordance with established DoD policies and 
procedures.
    The Panel's DFO is required to be in attendance at all Panel and 
subcommittee meetings for the duration of each and every meeting. 
However, in the absence of the Panel's DFO, a properly approved 
Alternate DFO, duly appointed to the Panel according to DoD policies 
and procedures, will attend the entire duration of all of the Panel or 
subcommittee meeting.
    The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, will call all of the Panel and its 
subcommittee meetings; prepare and approve all meeting agendas; adjourn 
any meeting, when the DFO, or the Alternate DFO, determines adjournment 
to be in the public interest or required by governing regulations or 
DoD policies and procedures; and chair meetings when directed to do so 
by the official to whom the Panel reports.
    Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the public or 
interested organizations may submit written statements to the Secretary 
of the Navy Advisory Panel membership about the Panel's mission and 
functions. Written statements may be submitted at any time or in 
response to the stated agenda of planned meeting of Secretary of the 
Navy Advisory Panel.
    All written statements shall be submitted to the Designated Federal 
Officer for the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel, and this 
individual will ensure that the written statements are provided to the 
membership for their consideration. Contact information for the 
Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel's Designated Federal Officer can 
be obtained from the GSA's FACA Database--http://www.facadatabase.gov/.
    The Designated Federal Officer, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150, will 
announce planned meetings of the Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel. 
The Designated Federal Officer, at that time, may provide additional 
guidance on the submission of written statements that are in response 
to the stated agenda for the planned meeting in question.

    Dated: December 11, 2013.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2013-29772 Filed 12-13-13; 8:45 am]
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