[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 7, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38603-38604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16875]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Business Board; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee 
Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Management Officer, Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense (DoD) is publishing this notice to 
announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the 
Defense Business Board (``the Board'') will take place.

DATES: Closed to the public Wednesday, August 7, 2019 from 7:55 a.m. to 
3 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The closed meeting will be in Room 3E869 in the Pentagon, 
Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roma Laster, (703) 695-7563 (Voice), 
(703) 614-4365 (Facsimile), [email protected] (Email). Mailing 
address is Defense Business Board, 1155 Defense Pentagon, Room 5B1088A, 
Washington, DC 20301-1155. Website: http://dbb.defense.gov/. The most 
up-to-date changes to the meeting agenda can be found on the website.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to circumstances beyond the control of 
the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Designated Federal Officer, the 
Defense Business Board was unable to provide public notification 
required by 41 CFR 102-3.150(a) concerning the August 7, 2019 meeting 
of the Defense Business Board. 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) (5 U.S.C., Appendix), the Government in 
the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b), and 41 CFR 102-3.140 and 102-3.150.
    Purpose of the Meeting: To obtain, review, and evaluate information 
related to the Board's mission in advising the Secretary of Defense on 
overall DoD management and governance on (a) issues central to 
strategic DoD planning; (b) policy implications of U.S. force structure 
and force modernization and on DoD's ability to execute U.S. defense 
strategy; (c) U.S. regional defense policies; and (d) other research 
and analysis of topics raised by the Secretary of Defense, Deputy 
Secretary of Defense, or Chief Management Officer (CMO) to allow the 
Board to provide informed, independent advice reflecting an outside 
private sector perspective of proven and effective best practices that 
can be applied to the DoD.
    Agenda: The meeting will begin on August 7, 2019 at 7:55 a.m. with 
opening remarks by Ms. Roma Laster, the Designated Federal Officer, and 
Mr. Atul Vashistha, Interim Board Chairman. The day's presentations 
will begin with a series of panel discussions featuring DoD officials 
and private sector experts that will inform the Board's advice and 
recommendations to be provided on the CMO's ongoing reform efforts. 
Panels scheduled are:

--Human Capital and Talent Management Reform Panel with senior 
executives from Goldman Sachs, Activision, Ernst & Young, and Yale 
School of Management along with representatives from the Office of the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Sustainment, Office of 
the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and the 
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian 
Personnel Policy.
--Data Management Strategy Reform Panel with a senior executive from 
Activision along with representatives from the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), DoD's Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, DoD's Office of the Chief Data Officer, and the 
Office of CMO Business Systems.
--Shared Services Reform Panel with senior executives from PepsiCo and 
United Parcel Service along with representatives from the Defense 
Logistics Agency, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and 
Washington Headquarters Service. Panel participants will provide 
information on current issues and challenges, and engage in discussions 
involving commercial or financial information that is privileged or 
confidential.

    Mr. James Baker, Director, Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and Mr. 
David Ochmanek will provide a classified briefing on current and future 
strategic challenges to DoD. The meeting will adjourn at 3:00 p.m.

    Meeting Accessibility: In accordance with section 10(d) of the FACA 
and 41 CFR 102-3.155, the DoD has determined that the Board's meeting 
will be closed to the public. Specifically, the CMO, after consultation 
with the DoD Office of General Counsel, has determined in writing that 
the meeting will be closed as it will consider commercial or financial 
information obtained from a person that is privileged or confidential 
covered by 5 U.S.C. 552b(4), as well as classified information covered 
by 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1). The 5 U.S.C. 552b(4) determination is based on 
the consideration that it is expected panel discussions will involve 
the sharing of commercial or financial information that is privileged 
or confidential by the private sector participants. The 5 U.S.C. 
552b(c)(1) determination is based on the consideration that the ONA 
briefing is classified and it is expected that discussions throughout 
the briefing will involve classified matters of national security 
concern. Such privileged and proprietary information and classified 
material are so intertwined with the unclassified material that the 
sessions cannot reasonably be segregated into separate discussions 
without defeating the effectiveness and meaning of the overall meeting. 
To permit the meeting to be open to the public would preclude any 
substantive discussion of such matters and would serve to greatly 
diminish the ultimate utility of the Board's findings and 
recommendations to the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of 
Defense, and to the CMO.
    Written Statements: Written comments may be submitted to the 
Designated Federal Officer via email to mailbox address: 
[email protected] in either Adobe 
Acrobat or Microsoft Word format. Please note that because the Board 
operates under the provisions of

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the FACA, all submitted comments will be treated as public documents 
and will be made available for public inspection, including, but not 
limited to, being posted on the Board's website.

    Dated: August 2, 2019.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2019-16875 Filed 8-6-19; 8:45 am]
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