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Federal Register: August 24, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 163)NoticesPage 45051-45052From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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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.

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 briefings, tours, 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, August 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, August 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Thursday, August 27, 1998, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, on August 25; at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, on August 26; and at the Office of Naval Research, 800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, Virginia, on August 27, 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 briefings, tours and discussions involving technical examination of information related to vulnerabilities and deficiencies of the GPS on Navy and Marine Corps platforms and weapons systems. These briefings, tours and 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. [Page 45052]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). Due to unavoidable delay in the administrative process of preparing for this meeting, the normal 15 day notice could not be provided.

Dated: August 19, 1998. Ralph W. Corey, LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison Officer.

FR Doc. 98-22731Filed8-21-98; 8:45 amBILLING CODE 3810-FF-P

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