100988 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 240 / Friday, December 13, 2024 / Notices 

On page 92912 in the third column for 

DON CATEX (f)(33), the word ‘‘like’’ is 

corrected to ‘‘similar to’’ in the first 

sentence. 

On page 92913 in the second column, 

NASA CATEX (d)(2)(i) is revised to 

read: ‘‘(d)(2)(i) Routine maintenance, 

minor construction or rehabilitation, 

minor demolition, minor modification, 

minor repair, and continuing or altered 

operations at, or of, existing NASA or 

NASA-funded or -approved facilities 

and equipment, such as buildings, 

roads, grounds, utilities, communication 

systems, and ground support systems 

(e.g., space tracking and data systems). 

This includes routine operations such as 

security, public health and safety, and 

environmental services.’’ 

On page 92913 in the second column, 

NASA CATEX (d)(3)(i) is revised to 

read: ‘‘(d)(3)(i) Research, development, 

testing, and evaluation in compliance 

with all applicable Federal, state, Tribal, 

or local laws or requirements and 

Executive Orders. This includes the 

research, development, testing, and 

evaluation of scientific instruments 

proposed for use on spacecraft, aircraft 

(including unmanned aircraft systems), 

sounding rockets, balloons, laboratories, 

watercraft, or other outdoor activities.’’ 

On page 92913 in the second column, 

NASA CATEX (d)(3)(iii) is revised to 

read: ‘‘(d)(3)(iii) Use of lasers for 

research and development, scientific 

instruments and measurements, and 

distance and ranging, where such use 

meets all applicable Federal, state, 

Tribal, or local laws or requirements 

and Executive orders. This includes 

lasers associated with spacecraft, 

aircraft (including unmanned aircraft 

systems), sounding rockets, balloons, 

laboratories, watercraft, or other outdoor 

activities.’’ 

Tommy W. Lee, 

Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison 

Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Science Board; Notice of 

Federal Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Under Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering, Department 

of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee meeting. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this 

notice to announce that the following 

Federal Advisory Committee meeting of 

the Defense Science Board (DSB) will 

take place. 

DATES: Closed to the public Wednesday, 

January 15, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 

p.m. Eastern time. 

ADDRESSES: The address of the closed 

meeting is the Pentagon, Room 3E188, 

Washington, DC 20301. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Elizabeth J. Kowalski, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO): (703) 571–0081 

(Voice), (703) 697–1860 (Facsimile), 

elizabeth.j.kowalski.civ@mail.mil, 

(Email). Mailing address is Defense 

Science Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–3140. Website: 

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/. The most 

up-to-date changes to the meeting 

agenda can be found on the website. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is being held under the 

provisions of chapter 10 of title 5, 

United States Code (U.S.C.) (commonly 

known as the ‘‘Federal Advisory 

Committee Act’’ or ‘‘FACA’’); 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c); and sections 102–3.140 and 

102–3.150 of title 41, Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR). 

Purpose of the Meeting: The mission 

of the DSB is to provide independent 

advice and recommendations to the 

Secretary of Defense on matters relating 

to the DoD’s scientific and technical 

enterprise. The objective of the meeting 

is to obtain, review, and evaluate 

classified information related to the 

DSB’s mission. The DSB will meet with 

DoD Leadership to discuss classified 

current and future national security 

challenges and priorities within the DoD 

and deliberate and vote on findings and 

recommendations. 

Agenda: The meeting will begin on 

Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 8:15 

a.m. Ms. Betsy Kowalski, DFO, and Dr. 

Eric Evans, Chair of the DSB, will 

provide classified opening remarks 

regarding ongoing studies. Next, from 9 

a.m. to 9:30 a.m. the board will 

deliberate and vote on the classified 

findings and recommendations of the 

DSB Task Force on 21st Century 

Industrial Base for National Defense. 

From 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Dr. 

Christopher Scolese, National 

Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Director, 

will provide a classified briefing on his 

views of current NRO strategy, 

challenges, and priorities. Following a 

15-minute break, the DSB will hold a 

session from 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

that includes a classified discussion to 

deliberate and vote on the findings and 

recommendations of the DSB Task Force 

on Balancing Security, Reliability, and 

Technological Advantage in Generative 

Artificial Intelligence for Defense. 

Following a break from 12:30 p.m. to 

1:30 p.m., the DSB Members will hold 

a classified discussion to deliberate and 

vote on the findings and 

recommendations of the DSB Task Force 

on Emerging Biotechnologies and 

National Security. After the final break 

of the day from 3 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., 

General Reed, Commander U.S. 

Transportation Command 

(TRANSCOM), will provide a classified 

briefing from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on 

his views of current TRANSCOM 

strategy, challenges, and priorities 

(VTC). The meeting will adjourn at 4:15 

p.m. 

Meeting Accessibility: In accordance 

with 5 U.S.C. 1009(d) and 41 CFR 102– 

3.155, the DoD has determined that the 

DSB meeting will be closed to the 

public. Specifically, the Under Secretary 

of Defense for Research and 

Engineering, in consultation with the 

DoD Office of the General Counsel, has 

determined in writing that the meeting 

will be closed to the public because it 

will consider matters covered by 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1). The determination is 

based on the consideration that it is 

expected that discussions throughout 

will involve classified matters of 

national security concern. Such 

classified material is so intertwined 

with the unclassified material that it 

cannot reasonably be segregated into 

separate discussions without defeating 

the effectiveness and meaning of the 

overall meetings. To permit the meeting 

to be open to the public would preclude 

discussion of such matters and would 

greatly diminish the ultimate utility of 

the DSB’s findings and 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Defense and to the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Research and Engineering. 

Written Statements: In accordance 

with 5 U.S.C. 1009(a)(3) and 41 CFR 

102–3.150(6) and 102–3.140, interested 

persons may submit a written statement 

for consideration by the DSB at any time 

regarding its mission or in response to 

the stated agenda of a planned meeting. 

Individuals submitting a written 

statement should submit their statement 

to Ms. Elizabeth J. Kowalski, the DSB 

DFO, via electronic mail (the preferred 

mode of submission) at the email 

address provided above in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Each page of the comment or statement 

must include the author’s name, title or 

affiliation, address and daytime phone 

number. If a written statement is not 

received at least three calendar days 

prior to the scheduled meeting, which is 

the subject of this notice, then it may 

not be provided to or considered by the 

DSB until a later date. Please note that 

all submitted comments and statements 

will be treated as public documents and 


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will be made available for public 

inspection, including, but not limited 

to, being posted on the Board’s website. 

Dated: December 9, 2024. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29349 Filed 12–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6001–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Renewal of Department of Defense 

Federal Advisory Committees— 

Department of Defense Wage 

Committee 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Renewal of Federal advisory 

committee. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this 

notice to announce that it is renewing 

the DoD Wage Committee (‘‘the DoD 

Wage Committee’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the DoD, 703– 

697–1142. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DoD 

Wage Committee is being renewed, 

pursuant to 5 United States Code 

(U.S.C.) 5343, as implemented by 5 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

532.209 and 532.227, and in accordance 

with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. chapter 

10 (commonly referred to as the 

‘‘Federal Advisory Committee Act’’ or 

‘‘FACA’’) and 41 CFR chapter 102– 

3.50(c), as a discretionary advisory 

committee. The charter and contact 

information for the DoD Wage 

Committee’s Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO) are found at https://

www.facadatabase.gov/FACA/apex/ 

FACAPublicAgencyNavigation. 

The DoD Wage Committee’s work is 

directed by 5 CFR 532.209, 532.227, 

532.231(e), and 532.243 and the Office 

of Personnel Management Operating 

Manual, Federal Wage System, 

Appropriated and Non-Appropriated 

Funds, S3–2 Agency Level. The DoD 

Wage Committee shall: (a) consider and 

make recommendations to the DoD on 

any matter involved in developing 

specifications for a wage survey on 

which the DoD proposes not to accept 

the recommendations of a local wage 

survey committee and any matters on 

which a minority report has been filed; 

(b) consider the survey data, upon 

completion of a wage survey, of the 

local wage survey committee’s report 

and recommendations, and the 

statistical analyses and proposed pay 

schedules derived from them, as well as 

any other data or recommendations 

pertinent to the survey, and 

recommends wage schedules to the payfixing authority; and (c) have a majority 

of the DoD Wage Committee to 

constitute a decision and 

recommendation of the DoD Wage 

Committee, but a member of the 

minority may file a report with the DoD 

Wage Committee’s recommendations. 

The DoD Wage Committee, pursuant 

to 5 CFR 532.227(b), shall consist of five 

members, with the chair and two 

members designated by the head of the 

DoD. Of the remaining two members, 

pursuant to 5 CFR 532.227(b)(1), one 

member shall be designated by each of 

the two labor organizations having the 

largest number of wage employees 

covered by exclusive recognition in the 

DoD. 

The appointment of DoD Wage 

Committee members will be approved 

by the DoD Appointing Authority for a 

term of service of one-to-four years, with 

annual renewal, in accordance with 

DoD policy and procedures. No 

member, unless approved by the DoD 

Appointing Authority, may serve more 

than two consecutive terms of service 

on the DoD Wage Committee, or serve 

on more than two DoD Federal advisory 

committees at one time. 

DoD Wage Committee members who 

are not full-time or permanent part-time 

Federal civilian officers or employees, 

or active-duty members of the 

Uniformed Services, shall be appointed 

as experts or consultants pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 3109 to serve as special 

government employee members, except 

when otherwise provided by law or 

regulation. DoD Wage Committee 

members who are full-time or 

permanent part-time Federal civilian 

officers or employees, or active-duty 

members of the Uniformed Services, 

shall be designated to serve as regular 

government employee members 

pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.130(a). As 

determined by the DoD Appointing 

Authority, the individuals designated by 

each of the two labor organizations 

having the largest number of wage 

employees covered by exclusive 

recognition in the DoD shall be 

appointed pursuant to 41 CFR 102– 

3.130(a) to serve as representative 

members consistent with 5 CFR 

532.227(b)(1). Individual members who 

are appointed to serve as representative 

members shall represent the views of 

their designated labor organizations. 

All RGE and SGE members of the DoD 

Wage Committee are appointed to 

exercise their own best judgment on 

behalf of the DoD, without representing 

any particular point of view, and to 

discuss and deliberate in a manner that 

is free from conflict of interest. With the 

exception of reimbursement of official 

DoD Wage Committee-related travel and 

per diem, DoD Wage Committee 

members serve without compensation. 

The public or interested organizations 

may submit written statements to the 

DoD Wage Committee about the DoD 

Wage Committee’s mission and 

functions. Written statements may be 

submitted at any time or in response to 

the stated agenda of planned meeting of 

the DoD Wage Committee. All written 

statements shall be submitted to the 

DFO for the DoD Wage Committee, and 

this individual will ensure that the 

written statements are provided to the 

membership for their consideration. 

Dated: December 10, 2024. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29431 Filed 12–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6001–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Charter Renewal of Department of 

Defense Federal Advisory 

Committees—Department of Defense 

Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care 

Board of Actuaries 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Charter renewal of Federal 

advisory committee. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this 

notice to announce that it is renewing 

the charter for the DoD MedicareEligible Retiree Health Care Board of 

Actuaries (MERHC BoA). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, DoD Advisory Committee 

Management Officer at 

james.d.freeman4.civ@mail.mil, 703– 

697–1142. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

charter for the MERHC BoA is being 

renewed in accordance with chapter 10 

of title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.) 

(commonly known as the ‘‘Federal 

Advisory Committee Act’’ or the 

‘‘FACA’’) and 41 CFR 102–3.50(a). The 

charter and contact information for the 

MERHC BoA’s Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO) are found at https://

www.facadatabase.gov/FACA/apex/ 

FACAPublicAgencyNavigation. 

The MERHC BoA provides 

independent advice and 

recommendations on actuarial matters 

associated with the DoD MedicareEligible Retiree Health Care Fund (the 

Fund) and other related matters. 


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