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2. Consider and act on the Finance 

Committee’s recommendation regarding 

LSC’s FY 2013 appropriation request. 

3. Public comment. 

4. Consider and act on other business. 

5. Consider and act on adjournment of 

meeting. 

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fulfilled. 

Dated: August 18, 2011. 

Victor M. Fortuno, 

Vice President & General Counsel. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Assumption Buster Workshop: 

‘‘Current Implementations of Cloud 

Computing Indicate a New Approach to 

Security’’ 

AGENCY: The National Coordination 

Office (NCO) for the Networking and 

Information Technology Research and 

Development (NITRD) Program, 

National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Call for participation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

assumptionbusters@nitrd.gov. 

DATES: Workshop: October 21, 2011; 

Deadline: September 21, 2011. Apply 

via e-mail to 

assumptionbusters@nitrd.gov. Travel 

expenses will be paid for selected 

participants who live more than 50 

miles from Washington, DC, up to the 

limits established by Federal 

Government travel regulations and 

restrictions. 

SUMMARY: The NCO, on behalf of the 

Special Cyber Operations Research and 

Engineering (SCORE) Committee, an 

interagency working group that 

coordinates cyber security research 

activities in support of national security 

systems, is seeking expert participants 

in a day-long workshop on the pros and 

cons of the Security of Distributed Data 

Schemes. The workshop will be held 

October 21, 2011 in Gaithersburg, MD. 

Applications will be accepted until 

5 p.m. EST September 21, 2011. 

Accepted participants will be notified 

by October 1, 2011. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Overview: This notice is issued by the 

National Coordination Office for the 

Networking and Information 

Technology Research and Development 

(NITRD) Program on behalf of the 

SCORE Committee. 

Background: There is a strong and 

often repeated call for research to 

provide novel cyber security solutions. 

The rhetoric of this call is to elicit new 

solutions that are radically different 

from existing solutions. Continuing 

research that achieves only incremental 

improvements is a losing proposition. 

We are lagging behind and need 

technological leaps to get, and keep, 

ahead of adversaries who are themselves 

rapidly improving attack technology. To 

answer this call, we must examine the 

key assumptions that underlie current 

security architectures. Challenging those 

assumptions both opens up the 

possibilities for novel solutions and 

provides an even stronger basis for 

moving forward on those assumptions 

that are well-founded. The SCORE 

Committee is conducting a series of four 

workshops to begin the assumption 

buster process. The assumptions that 

underlie this series are as follows: Cyber 

space is an adversarial domain; the 

adversary is tenacious, clever, and 

capable; and re-examining cyber 

security solutions in the context of these 

assumptions will result in key insights 

that will lead to the novel solutions we 

desperately need. To ensure that our 

discussion has the requisite adversarial 

flavor, we are inviting researchers who 

develop solutions of the type under 

discussion, and researchers who exploit 

these solutions. The goal is to engage in 

robust debate of topics generally 

believed to be true to determine to what 

extent that claim is warranted. The 

adversarial nature of these debates is 

meant to ensure the threat environment 

is reflected in the discussion in order to 

elicit innovative research concepts that 

will have a greater chance of having a 

sustained positive impact on our cyber 

security posture. 

The fourth topic to be explored in this 

series is cloud computing. The 

workshop on this topic will be held in 

Gaithersburg, MD on October 21, 2011. 

Assertion: ‘‘Current implementations 

of cloud computing indicate a new 

approach to security’’ 

Implementations of cloud computing 

have provided new ways of thinking 

about how to secure data and 

computation. Cloud is a platform upon 

which we leverage various 

opportunities to improve the way in 

which we think about and implement 

the practices and technology needed to 

secure the things that matter most to us. 

Current implementations of cloud 

computing security take advantage of 

the unique capabilities and 

architectures of cloud computing (e.g. 

scale). 

Working from this assertion, we want 

researchers and cloud implementers to 

submit, as part of your application to 

participate in the October 21st 

Assumption Buster Workshop, a onepage paper stating your opinion of the 

assertion and outlining your key 

thoughts on the topic. Below are some 

additional areas to explore stated 

specifically in strong language 

supportive of the assertion. 

—Controls on provider side, controls on 

the subscribe-side, and controls of the 

shared space in cloud 

implementations can be defined in 

ways that allow for a comprehensive 

view of the cloud security landscape 

to displayed and managed. 

—A common security risk model can be 

leveraged when assessing cloud 

computing services and products, and 

use of this model provides a 

consistent baseline for Cloud based 

technologies. 

—Cloud computing security is a natural 

fit when examined against the Federal 

cybersecurity research themes focused 

on designed-in-security, tailored 

trustworthy spaces, moving target, 

and cyber economic incentives. These 

themes will be best demonstrated 

using Cloud Computing. 

—Opportunities exist to create existence 

proofs for specific security 

improvements such as minimal 

kernels that can be formally verified 

which could provide a stronger basis 

for virtual machines. 

—We can establish a trust boundary 

remote-control that allows a cloud 

customer to directly control system 

boundaries. 

—Credible explications of security 

priorities are possible thus enabling 

customers to obtain a complete 

picture and insight into the security 

offered by their cloud 

implementation. 

—Cloud customers are able to measure 

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of their cloud data from the other 

customers. 

In this workshop, we will explore 

whether, or in what circumstances, this 

confidence is warranted. 

How To Apply 

If you would like to participate in this 

workshop, please submit (1) a resume or 

curriculum vita of no more than two 

pages which highlights your expertise in 

this area and (2) a one-page paper 

stating your opinion of the assertion and 

outlining your key thoughts on the 

topic. The workshop will accommodate 

no more than 60 participants, so these 

brief documents need to make a 

compelling case for your participation. 

Applications should be submitted 

electronically via e-mail to 

assumptionbusters@nitrd.gov no later 

than 5 p.m. EST on September 21, 2011. 

Selection and Notification: The 

SCORE committee will select an expert 

group that reflects a broad range of 

opinions on the assertion. Accepted 

participants will be notified by e-mail 

no later than October 1, 2011. We 

cannot guarantee that we will contact 

individuals who are not selected, 

though we will attempt to do so unless 

the volume of responses is 

overwhelming. 

Dated: August 17, 2011. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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Notice of Permit Application Received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications 

Received Under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 

has received a waste management 

permit application for operation of a 

field research camp located in ASPA 

#149–Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island 

by the Antarctic Marine Living 

Resources (AMLR) Program, Southwest 

Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 

The application is submitted to NSF 

pursuant to regulations issued under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit written data, comments, or 

views with respect to this permit 

application within September 21, 2011. 

Permit applications may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 

Office of Polar Programs, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Polly A. Penhale at the above address or 

(703) 292–8030. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NSF’s 

Antarctic Waste Regulation, 45 CFR part 

671, requires all U.S. citizens and 

entities to obtain a permit for the use or 

release of a designated pollutant in 

Antarctica, and for the release of waste 

in Antarctica. NSF has received a permit 

application under this Regulation for 

operation of remote research field camp 

at ASPA #149 Cape Shirreff, Livingston 

Island. The camp consists of four 

structures on the beach between Llano 

Point and Sphinx Hill which has been 

in use during the summer since 1977. 

The camp is used to house researchers 

(typically 6 people), provide a base of 

research operations, and allow 

laboratory studies. Biological 

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is the primary research conducted from 

the camp. 

Designated pollutants would be 

associated with camp operations 

[typically air emissions and waste water 

(urine, grey-water, and human solid 

waste)] and scientific activities 

(typically research materials). All wastes 

would be packaged and removed from 

the site for proper disposal in Chile or 

the U.S. under approved guidelines 

prior to the end of each season. 

In addition, the AMLR Program 

conducts 30–90 days of vessel 

operations in the Antarctic Peninsula 

region. The vessel follows a 

standardized survey grid, and 

depending on the focus any given year, 

additional smaller sections of the region 

are surveyed. During annual surveys, 

the Program deploys drifters and 

expendable bathythermographs (XBT’s) 

to collect hydrographic data. In addition 

to drifters and XBT’s, the AMLR 

Program also deploys and recovers a 

variety of gear that are not intentionally 

released into the environment: 

(1) Conductivity-Temperature-Depth 

profilers (CTD’s) are lowered to collect 

water in attached PCV bottles. Due to 

storms or heavy waves the bottles can be 

broken and release plastic into the 

ocean. 

(2) Fishing nets: (a) Plankton nets 

come in a variety of configurations and 

sizes. The Program has lost a net ad 

frame once every 3–5 years. (B) 

Commercial bottom trawl nets are 

deployed every two to three years. Due 

to the submarine terrain being volcanic, 

ice scoured and highly variable in 

makeup, trawls can be lost if the trawl 

is snagged on boulders or rock 

outcroppings. 

(3) Other gears: Towed or undulating 

instruments (e.g. Continuous plankton 

recorder, Winged Optical Particle 

Counters, towed Current profilers) can 

be lost. In many cases these 

instruments, if lost are buoyant, and can 

be recovered. In other cases, the 

instruments are heavy, and made of 

mostly metal and sink in the rather deep 

water surrounding the Antarctic 

Continent. 

The permit applicant is: George 

Watters, Director, US AMLR Program, 

Southwest Fisheries Service, NOAA, 

8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 

92037 Permit application No. 2012 

WM–001. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Applications Received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications 

Received under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 

95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permit applications received to 

conduct activities regulated under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

NSF has published regulations under 

the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 

45 part 670 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations. This is the required notice 

of permit applications received. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit written data, comments, or 

views with respect to this permit 

application by September 21, 2011. This 

application may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 

Office of Polar Programs, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Polly A. Penhale at the above address or 

(703) 292–7420. 

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