21 June 2001
[Federal Register: June 21, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 120)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Defense Science Board
AGENCY: Department of Defense.
ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee Meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board (DSB) Summer Study will meet in
closed session August 13-24, 2001, at the Beckman Center, Irvine, CA.
At these meetings, the Defense Science Board will discuss interim
findings and recommendations resulting from two ongoing Task Force
activities: Defense Science & Technology (S&T) and Precision Targeting.
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 Board will address the issues involved in assuring that
the U.S. continues to gain access to and develop technology from which
to gain military advantage. They will consider future technologies that
should be developed and exploited for military applications,
particularly potential technologies that provide the U.S. military an
asymmetric advantage in conflict, in deployment, and at home; the
appropriate mix of in-house, contractor, university and commercial
providers of basic and applied research and of advanced development;
how DoD can leverage technology that is under development and produced
globally in commercial industry, as well as that which is being
discovered and demonstrated in the S&T programs funded by both other
U.S. agencies and other nations; the situation of and the contribution
of the DoD laboratories in this changing world; and how to maintain
excellence in in-house S&T endeavors.
The Board will also examine the full range of the precision weapons
targeting in tactical military operations, from target execution,
location, and identification through mission execution and damage
assessment. Specifically, all planned precision weapons programs and
procurements will be examined to determine the degree to which these
weapons are compatible with targeting requirements for different target
classes; the degree to which existing and planned reconnaissance and
surveillance assets are used to effectively develop target sets, real
time targeting data and perform battle damage assessment under varied
degrees of cover, concealment and deception; our ability to identify
and precisely locate targets while minimizing false alarms using
automatic target recognition techniques and precision location
technologies; and our ability to attack moving targets.
In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee
Act, P.L. No. 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. II), it has been
determined that these Defense Science Board meetings, concern matters
listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1), and that accordingly these meetings will
be closed to the public.
Dated: June 14, 2001.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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