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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board 

Task Force on Force Protection in Urban 

and Unconventional Environments will 

meet in closed session on December 14–

16, 2004, at SAI, 3601 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, VA. This Task 

Force will review and evaluate force 

protection capabilities in urban and 

unconventional environments and 

provide recommendations to effect 

change to the future Joint Force. 

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. 

Specifically, the Task Force’s foci will 

be to evaluate force protection in the 

context of post major combat operations 

that have been conducted in Iraq and 

Afghanistan. In the operations, loss of 

national treasure—military and civilian, 

U.S. and other nations—has resulted 

from actions executed by non-state and 

rogue actors. The threat and capabilities 

these insurgent, terrorist and criminal 

actions present post a most serious 

challenge to our ability to achieve 

unified action. 

In accordance with Section 10(d) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, as amended (5 

U.S.C. App. 2), it has been determined 


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that these Defense Science Board 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. 

Due to scheduling difficulties, there is 

insufficient time to provide timely 

notice required by Section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

and Subsection 101–6.1015(b) of the 

GSA Final Rule on Federal Advisory 

Committee Management, 41 CFR part 

101–6, which further requires 

publication at least 15 calendar days 

prior to the meeting.

Dated: December 6, 2004. 

Jeannette Owings-Ballard, 

OSD Federal Register, Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board 

Task Force on Management Oversight of 

Acquisition Organizations will meeting 

closed session on December 17, 2004, at 

SAIC, 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, 

VA. This Task Force will review the 

contracting and acquisition of several 

organizations. Two organizations will 

provide classified programs (SOCOM 

and MDA). The military departments 

will provide actual examples of 

acquisitions using source selection data 

to include proprietary information. The 

inclusion of classified and proprietary 

information does not lend itself to an 

open meeting. 

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 assess whether all 

major acquisition organizations within 

the Department have adequate 

management and oversight processes, 

including what changes might be 

necessary to implement such process 

where needed. The task force will also 

review whether simplification of the 

acquisition structure could improve 

both efficiency and oversight. 

In accordance with Section 10(d) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, as amended (5 

U.S.C. App. 2), it has been determined 

that these Defense Science Board 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: December 6, 2004. 

Jeannette Owings-Ballard, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board 

Task Force on Mobility will meet in 

closed session on January 12, 2005, in 

Arlington, VA. This Task Force will 

identify the acquisition issues in 

improving our strategic mobility 

capabilities. 

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 

this meeting, the Defense Science Board 

Task Force will review: The part 

transport plays in our present-day 

military capability—the technical 

strengths and weakness the operational 

opportunities and constraints; the 

possible advantage of better alignment 

of current assets with those in 

production and those to be delivered in 

the very near future; how basing and 

deployment strategies—CONUS-basing, 

repositioning (ashore or afloat), and 

seabasing—drive our mobility 

effectiveness; the possible advantages 

available from new transport 

technologies and systems whose 

expected IOC dates are either short term 

(∼12 years) or, separately, the long term 

(∼25 years). 

In accordance with Section 10(d) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, as amended (5 

U.S.C. App. 2), it has been determined 

that this Defense Science Board Task 

Force meeting concerns matters listed in 

5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that, 

accordingly, the meeting will be closed 

to the public.

Dated: December 6, 2004. 

Jeannette Owings-Ballard, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board 

Task Force on Munitions system 

Reliability will meet in closed session 

on December 22, 2004, at SAIC, 4001 N. 

Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA. This Task 

Force will review the efforts thus far to 

improve the reliability of munitions 

systems and identify additional steps to 

be taken to reduce the amount of 

unexploded ordnance resulting from 

munitions failures. The Taks Force will: 

conduct a methodologically sound 

assessment of the failure rates of U.S. 

munitions in actual combat use; review 

ongoing efforts to reduce the amount of 

unexploded ordnance resulting from 

munitions systems failures, and 

evaluate whether there are ways to 

improve or accelerate these efforts; and 

identify other feasible measures the U.S. 

can take to reduce the threat that failed 

munitions pose to friendly forces and 

noncombatants. 

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: conduct a 

methodologically sound assessment of 

the failure rates of U.S. munitions in 

actual combat use; review ongoing 

efforts to reduce the amount of 

unexploded ordnance resulting from 

munitions systems failures, and 

evaluate whether there are ways to 

improve or accelerate these efforts; and 

identify other feasible measures the U.S. 

can take to reduce the threat that failed 

munitions pose to friendly forces and 

noncombatants. 

In accordance with Section 10(d) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, as amended (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) it has been determined 

that these Defense Science Board Task 

Force meetings concern matters listed in 

5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and that,