[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 106 (Thursday, June 2, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35382-35383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13033]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice: (16-038)]


NASA Advisory Council; Science Committee; Ad Hoc Task Force on 
Big Data; Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public 
Law 92-463, as amended, the National

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Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the 
Ad Hoc Task Force on Big Data. This task force reports to the NASA 
Advisory Council's Science Committee. The meeting will be held for the 
purpose of soliciting and discussing, from the scientific community and 
other persons, scientific and technical information relevant to big 
data.

DATES: Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 29, 
2016, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and Thursday, June 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m. to 
12:00 noon, Local Time.

ADDRESSES: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Building 28, Room E210, 
8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Ann Delo, Science Mission 
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, (202) 358-0750, 
fax (202) 358-2779, or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be open to the public up to 
the capacity of the room. The meeting will also be available 
telephonically and by WebEx. You must use a touch tone phone to 
participate in this meeting. Any interested person may call the USA 
toll free conference call number 800-988-9663, passcode 4718658, to 
participate in this meeting by telephone. A toll number also is 
available, 1-517-308-9427 passcode 4718658. The WebEx link is https://nasa.webex.com/; the meeting number is 997 975 025 and the password is 
BigD@T@16-2. The agenda for the meeting includes the following topics:

--NASA's Science Data Cyber-Infrastructure
--Access to NASA Science Mission Data Repositories
--Big Data Best Practices in Government, Academia and Industry
--Federal Big Data Initiatives
--Resources and Concerns Specific to Big Data at NASA Goddard Space 
Flight Center

Attendees will be requested to sign a register and to comply with NASA 
security requirements, including the presentation of a valid picture ID 
to Security before access to the Goddard Space Flight Center. Due to 
the Real ID Act, any attendees with drivers licenses issued from non-
compliant states must present a second form of ID. [Federal employee 
badge; passport; active military identification card; enhanced driver's 
license; U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner card; Native American tribal 
document; school identification accompanied by an item from LIST C 
(documents that establish employment authorization) from the ``List of 
the Acceptable Documents'' on Form I-9]. Non-compliant states are: 
American Samoa, Arizona, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, New York, 
Oklahoma and Washington. Foreign nationals attending this meeting will 
be required to provide a copy of their passport and visa in addition to 
providing the following information no less than 10 working days prior 
to the meeting: Full name; gender; date/place of birth; citizenship; 
passport information (number, country, telephone); visa information 
(number, type, expiration date); employer/affiliation information (name 
of institution, address, country, telephone); title/position of 
attendee. To expedite admittance, attendees with U.S. citizenship and 
Permanent Residents (green card holders) can provide full name and 
citizenship status 3 working days in advance by contacting by 
contacting Ms. Briana E. Horton, via email at [email protected] 
or by fax at (301) 286-1714. It is imperative that the meeting be held 
on these dates to the scheduling priorities of the key participants.

Patricia D. Rausch,
Advisory Committee Management Officer, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-13033 Filed 6-1-16; 8:45 am]
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