22 October 2002
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[Federal Register: October 21, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 203)]
[Notices]
[Page 64635]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 Joint Defense Science Board/Air Force Scientific Advisory
Board Task Force on the Acquisition of National Security Space Programs
will meet in closed sessions on November 7-8, 2002; and November 18-20,
2002, in Chantilly, VA. This Task Force will review the acquisition of
National Security Space Programs and make recommendations to improve
the acquisition of space programs from their initiation to deployment.
    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 Task Force3 will focus on what matters to providing
national security advantage to the United States and look at the
problem in as holistic a fashion as possible, considering the entire
space acquisition process, including industry suppliers as well as
government acquirers. The assessment will consider what is happening in
the four inter-connected sectors of the space business--commercial,
civil, intelligence and military. Personnel issues, including numbers,
skills, experience and demographics of space professionals (including
CAAS and FFRDC personnel) as well as effects of corporate mergers in
all these areas may be included. The assessment will also consider all
aspects of the government's role in managing and funding space system
acquisition--SPO, PEO, Science and Technology, Major Command, Service
Headquarters, OSD, NRO, NASA and Congress--to derive insights.
    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 Task Force meetings concern matters listed in 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly these meetings will be closed
to the public.

    Dated: October 11, 2002.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 02-26635 Filed 10-18-02; 8:45 am]
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