[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 173 (Friday, September 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51798-51799]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-20553]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Notice of Partially Closed Meeting of the Naval Research Advisory 
Committee

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) will meet to 
brief the Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Research, Development and 
Acquisition (ASN (RD&A)) on the results of the committee's summer 
studies covering two topics: Undersea Maritime Domain Awareness (UMDA) 
and Disruptive Commercial Technologies (DCT). During the UMDA briefing, 
the committee will discuss classified information at the secret level 
from government organizations and proprietary information from 
commercial industry organizations.
    Discussions will focus on the exploitation of physical 
vulnerabilities and the tactical applications of known and emerging 
technologies. The Executive Session of this meeting will be closed to 
the public.

DATES: The open session of the meeting will be held on Wednesday, 
September 24, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to 11 
a.m. The closed Executive Session on Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 
will be held from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
    The open session of the meeting held on Thursday, September 25, 
2008, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. and from 11 a.m. to 12:45 
p.m. The closed Executive Session will be held on Thursday, September 
25, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The briefing to the ASN (RD&A) will be held: September 24, 
2008: Conference Room M4, The Pentagon, Washington, DC; September 25, 
2008: Pentagon Auditorium, The Pentagon, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William H. Ellis, Jr., Program 
Director, Naval Research Advisory Committee, 875 North Randolph Street, 
Arlington, VA 22203-1955, telephone: 703-696-5775.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of meeting is provided per the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.). 
Participants' registration, introduction/welcoming remarks and the 
Disruptive Commercial Technologies session on both Wednesday, September 
24, 2008, and Thursday, September 25, 2008, are unclassified and are 
open to the public. Two sessions of the briefing will be devoted to 
Undersea Maritime Domain Awareness. Those two sessions will include 
discussions and technical examination of information related to 
undersea disruptive technologies to U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps 
combat operations.
    In addition, these sessions will discuss proprietary information as 
well as classified information that is specifically authorized under 
criteria established by Executive Order to be kept secret in the 
interest of national defense and is in fact properly classified 
pursuant to such Executive Order and SECNAV Instructions M-5510.36 of 
June 2006. The proprietary, classified and non-classified matters to be

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discussed during these two sessions are so inextricably intertwined as 
to preclude opening this session of the briefing.
    In accordance with 5 U.S.C. App. section 10(d), the Secretary of 
the Navy has determined in writing that the UMDA sessions of the 
briefing will be closed to the public because they will discuss matters 
listed in 5 U.S.C. section 552b(c)(1), (4) and SECNAV Instructions M-
5510.36 of June 2006.

    Dated: August 29, 2008.
T. M. Cruz,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,Federal 
Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-20553 Filed 9-4-08; 8:45 am]
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