[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 32 (Friday, February 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11022-11023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-03194]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee 
Meeting

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board (DSB) 2017 Summer Study Task Force 
on Countering Anti-access Systems with Longer Range and Standoff 
Capabilities (``the Long Range Effects 2017 Summer Study Task Force'') 
will meet in closed session on Tuesday, February 14, 2017, from 7:50 
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Strategic Analysis Inc. Executive Conference 
Center, 4075 Wilson Blvd., Suite 350, Arlington, VA and Wednesday, 
February 15, 2017, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Virginia Tech 
Advanced Research Center, 900 Glebe Road, 7th Floor, Arlington, VA.

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DATES: Tuesday, February 14, 2017, from 7:50 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and 
Wednesday, February 15, 2017, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Strategic Analysis Inc. Executive Conference Center, 4075 
Wilson Blvd., Suite 350, Arlington, VA and Virginia Tech Advanced 
Research Center, 900 Glebe Road, 7th Floor, Arlington, VA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Debra Rose, Executive Officer, 
Defense Science Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 3B888A, Washington, 
DC 20301-3140, via email at [email protected], or via phone 
at (703) 571-0084 or the Defense Science Board's Designated Federal 
Officer (DFO) Ms. Karen D.H. Saunders, Executive Director, Defense 
Science Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 3B888A, Washington, DC 
20301, via email at [email protected] or via phone at (703) 
571-0079.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to circumstances beyond the control of 
the Designated Federal Officer and the Department of Defense, the 
Defense Science Board was unable to provide public notification 
concerning is meeting on February 14 through 15, 2017, of the Defense 
Science Board 2017 Summer Study Task Force on Countering Anti-access 
Systems with Longer Range and Standoff Capabilities, as required by 41 
CFR 102-3.150(a). Accordingly, the Advisory Committee Management 
Officer for the Department of Defense, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150(b), 
waives the 15-calendar day notification requirement.
    This meeting is being held under the provisions of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), 
the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), 
and 41 CFR 102-3.150.
    The mission of the DSB is to provide independent advice and 
recommendations on matters relating to the Department of Defense's 
(DoD) scientific and technical enterprise. The objective of the Long 
Range Effects 2017 Summer Study Task Force is to explore new defense 
systems and technologies that will enable cost effective power 
projection that relies on the use of longer stand-off distances than 
current capabilities. System components may be deployed on manned or 
unmanned platforms with a range of potential autonomous capabilities. 
Use of cost reducing technology and advanced production practices from 
defense and commercial industry may be a major part of the strategy for 
deploying adequate numbers of weapons. The study should investigate and 
analyze all of these areas and recommend preferred system options. This 
two-day session will focus on providing general threat briefings, to 
include country briefings and respective threat system capabilities. 
United States capabilities will also be briefed by combatant commands, 
Office of Secretary of Defense and the military services. Day One 
briefings will include an overview of the study and expectations from 
Dr. David Whelan and Mr. Mark Russell, task force co-chairs; a briefing 
on the operations and threats to military satellite communications and 
tactical networking from Mr. Al Grasso, President of MITRE; an overview 
of the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) efforts to address Anti-access/
Area denial (A2/AD) by Mr. Michael Ramsdell, MDA; an overview of U.S. 
European Command's (EUCOM) operational plans from Col Kelly Houlgate, 
the EUCOM Liaison Officer; an assessment of the DoD's capabilities to 
counter A2/AD from Mr. Gregory Cox of the Institute for Defense 
Analyses; and an overview briefing on the National Reconnaissance 
Office's (NRO) architecture and approach to countering A2/AD. The 
remainder of this day will be the Long Range Effects 2017 Summer Study 
Task Force's four panel break-out sessions: Architecture; Intelligence, 
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); Basing, Delivery, and Weapons; 
Command, Control, Communications, and Cyber. These panels will meet 
simultaneously to discuss topics to analyze in support of the study. 
Day Two briefings will include an overview briefing on maintaining and 
preserving defense technological superiority by Mr. Mike Olmstead from 
the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, 
and Logistics) (OUSD (AT&L)); an analysis of conventional prompt global 
strike by Ms. Amy Woolf of Congressional Research Service (CRS); and an 
overview of U.S. Defense space policy from Mr. John Hill from the 
Office of the Secretary of Defense (Space). The day will conclude with 
the same four panel break-out sessions from the previous day: 
Architecture; Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); 
Basing, Delivery, and Weapons; Command, Control, Communications, and 
Cyber. These panels will meet simultaneously to discuss topics to 
analyze in support of the study.
    In accordance with section 10(d) of the FACA and 41 CFR 102-2.155, 
the DoD has determined that the Long Range Effects 2017 Summer Study 
Task Force meeting will be closed to the public. Specifically, the 
Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics), in 
consultation with the DoD Office of General Counsel, has determined in 
writing that the meeting will be closed to the public because matters 
covered by 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) will be considered. The determination is 
based on the consideration that it is expected that discussions 
throughout will involve classified matters of national security 
concern. Such classified material is so intertwined with the 
unclassified material that it cannot reasonably be segregated into 
separate discussions without defeating the effectiveness and meaning of 
the overall meetings. To permit the meeting to be open to the public 
would preclude discussion of such matters and would greatly diminish 
the ultimate utility of the DSB's findings and recommendations to the 
Secretary of Defense and to the Under Secretary of Defense for 
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
    In accordance with section 10(a)(3) of the FACA and 41 CFR 102-
3.l05(j) and 102-3.140, interested persons may submit a written 
statement for consideration by the Long Range Effects 2017 Summer Study 
Task Force members at any time regarding its mission or in response to 
the stated agenda of a planned meeting. Individuals submitting a 
written statement must submit their statement to the DSB's DFO--Ms. 
Karen D.H. Saunders, Executive Director, Defense Science Board, 3140 
Defense Pentagon, Room 3B888A, Washington, DC 20301, via email at 
[email protected] or via phone at (703) 571-0079 at any 
point; however, if a written statement is not received at least 3 
calendar days prior to the meeting, which is the subject of this 
notice, then it may not be provided to or considered by the Long Range 
Effects 2017 Summer Study Task Force until the next meeting of this 
task force. The DFO will review all submissions with the Long Range 
Effects 2017 Summer Study Task Force Co-Chairs and ensure they are 
provided to Long Range Effects 2017 Summer Study Task Force members 
prior to the end of the two day meeting on February 15, 2017.

    Dated: February 14, 2017.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2017-03194 Filed 2-16-17; 8:45 am]
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