[Federal Register: October 2, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 191)]
[Notices]               
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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 Defense Science Board Task Force on Enabling Joint Force 
Capabilities will tentatively meet in closed session October 24, 2003, 
at IDA, 4850 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, VA; and October 30, 2003, 
at Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, VA. This Task Force will review the 
current state of assigned responsibilities and accountability for joint 
capabilities to quickly bring combat forces together and focus them on 
joint objectives across a wide spectrum of possible contingencies and 
will help identify unfilled needs and areas where assigned 
responsibility and accountability calls for further clarification and/
or organizational arrangements.
    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 Defense Science Board Task Force will identify specific 
characteristics and examples of organizations that could be capable of 
accepting responsibility and accountability for delivering the 
capability with needed responsiveness, and will recommend further steps 
to strengthen the joint structure ability to quickly integrate service-
provided force capabilities into effective joint forces.
    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 the Defense Science Board Task Force meetings concern 
matters listed in 5 U.S.C. Sec.  552b(c)(1) and that, accordingly, the 
meetings will be closed to the public.

    Dated: September 25, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-24987 Filed 10-1-03; 8:45 am]

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