[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 188 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26013]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Meeting of the Naval Research Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) Panel on Global
Positioning System (GPS) Vulnerability and Alternatives will meet to
examine the vulnerabilities of the GPS on Navy and Marine Corps
platforms and weapons systems. All sessions of the meeting will be
devoted to executive sessions that will include discussions and
technical examination of information related to GPS vulnerabilities;
the Department of the Navy's mitigation plans for platforms, weapons,
communications, and intelligence systems as related to the projected
threat; GPS modernization; and research, development, test,
acquisition, and training activities to improve GPS-related military
readiness and precision navigation capabilities. All sessions of the
meeting will be closed to the public.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 6, from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.; Wednesday, October 7, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Thursday,
October 8, 1998, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Center San Diego, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, California, on
October 6 through 8, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Mason-Muir, Program Director,
Naval Research Advisory Committee, 800 North Quincy Street, Arlington,
VA 22217-5660, telephone number: (703) 696-6769.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of meeting is provided in
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. App. 2). All sessions of the meeting will be devoted to
discussions involving technical examination of information related to
vulnerabilities and deficiencies of the GPS on Navy and Marine Corps
platforms and weapons systems. These discussions will contain
classified information that is specifically authorized under criteria
established by Executive Order to be kept secret in the interest of
national defense and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such
Executive Order. The classified and non-classified matters to be
discussed are so inextricably intertwined as to preclude opening any
portion of the meeting. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section
10(d), the Secretary of the Navy has determined in writing that the
public interest requires that all sessions of the meeting be closed to
the public because they will be concerned with matters listed in 5
U.S.C. section 552b(c)(1).
Dated: September 21, 1998.
Ralph W. Corey,
LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-26013 Filed 9-28-98; 8:45 am]
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