[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21739-21740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08775]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory Committees
AGENCY: DoD.
ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory Committee.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is publishing this notice to
announce that it is renewing the charter for the Defense Advisory
Committee on Military Personnel Testing (``the Committee'').
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Freeman, Advisory Committee
Management Officer for the Department of Defense, 703-692-5952.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This committee's charter is being renewed
under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5
U.S.C. Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b) (``the Sunshine Act''), and 41 CFR 102-3.50(d).
The Committee is a discretionary Federal advisory committee that
shall provide the Secretary of Defense, through the Under Secretary of
Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)), with assistance and
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independent advice on matters pertaining to military personnel testing
for enlisted selection and classification.
The Committee shall report to the Secretary of Defense and the
Deputy Secretary of Defense through the USD(P&R). The USD(P&R) may act
upon the Committee's advice and recommendations.
The committee shall review the calibration of personnel selection
and classification tests to ensure accuracy of resulting scores, review
relevant validations studies to ensure that tests have utility in
predicting success in technical and on-the-job training, review on-
going testing research and development in support of the enlistment
program, and make recommendations to improve the testing process so
that it is more responsive to the needs of the DoD and the Military
Services.
The DoD, through the Office of the USD(P&R), shall provide support,
as deemed necessary, for the Committee's performance and functions, and
shall ensure compliance with the requirements of the FACA, the Sunshine
Act, governing Federal statutes and regulations, and established DoD
policies and procedures.
The Committee shall be comprised of no more than seven members who
are eminent authorities in the fields of educational and psychological
testing.
Committee members appointed by the Secretary of Defense or the
Deputy Secretary of Defense, who are not full-time or permanent part-
time Federal employees, shall be appointed as experts and consultants
under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as special government
employee (SGE) members. Committee members who are full-time or
permanent part-time Federal employees, shall be appointed pursuant to
41 CFR 102-3.130(a), as regular government employee (RGE) members.
Committee members shall serve a term of service of one-to-four years,
as determined by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense, with
annual renewals. Pursuant to DoD policy, no member of the Committee
will serve more than two consecutive terms of service unless otherwise
authorized by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense. This same
term of service limitation also applies to any DoD authorized
subcommittees. All Committee members will be reimbursed for travel and
per diem as it pertains to official business of the Committee.
Committee members will serve without compensation. The Secretary or
Deputy Secretary of Defense shall select and appoint the Committee's
chair from the total membership for a two-year term of service with
annual renewals.
DoD, when necessary, and consistent with the Committee's mission
and DoD policies and procedures, may establish subcommittees, task
groups, and working groups to support the Committee. Establishment of
subcommittees will be based upon a written determination, to include
terms of reference, by the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary
of Defense, or the DoD sponsor.
Such subcommittees shall not work independently of the Committee,
and shall report all their recommendations and advice solely to the
Committee for full and open deliberation and discussion. Subcommittees,
task forces, or working groups have no authority to make decisions and
recommendations, verbally or in writing, on behalf of the Committee. No
subcommittee or any of its members update or report, verbally or in
writing, on behalf of the Committee, directly to the DoD or any Federal
officers or employees.
All subcommittee members will be appointed in the same manner as
Committee members; that is, the Secretary of Defense or the Deputy
Secretary of Defense will appoint subcommittee members to a term of
service of one-to-four years, even if the member in question is already
a member of the Committee. Subcommittee members shall not serve more
than two consecutive terms of service unless authorized by the
Secretary of Defense or the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee members, if not full-time or part-time Federal
employees, will be appointed as experts and consultants, under the
authority of 5 U.S.C. 3109, to serve as SGE members, whose appointments
must be renewed on an annual basis. Subcommittee members who are full-
time or permanent part-time Federal employees, shall be appointed
pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.130(a), as RGE members. With the exception of
reimbursement of official travel and per diem related to the committee
or its subcommittees, subcommittee members shall serve without
compensation. All subcommittees operate under the provisions of FACA,
the Sunshine Act, governing Federal statutes and regulations, and
established DoD policies and procedures.
The Committee shall meet at the call of the Committee's Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), in consultation with the Committee's chair. The
estimated number of Committee meetings is two per year.
The Committee's DFO pursuant to DoD policy, shall be a full-time or
permanent part-time DoD employee and shall be appointed in accordance
with established DoD policies and procedures. The Committee's DFO is
required to be in attendance at all meetings of the Committee and its
subcommittees for the entire duration of each and every meeting.
However, in the absence of the Committee's DFO, a properly approved
Alternate DFO, duly appointed to the Committee according to established
DoD policies and procedures, shall attend the entire duration of all of
the meetings of the Committee and its subcommittees.
The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, shall call all of the Committee and
its subcommittees; prepare and approve all meeting agendas; and adjourn
any meeting, when the DFO, or the Alternate DFO, determines adjournment
to be in the public interest or required by governing regulations or
DoD policies and procedures; and chair meetings when directed to do so
by the USD(P&R). Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the
public or interested organizations may submit written statements to
Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing membership
about the Committee's mission and functions. Written statements may be
submitted at any time or in response to the stated agenda of planned
meeting of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing.
All written statements shall be submitted to the DFO for the
Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing, and this
individual will ensure that the written statements are provided to the
membership for their consideration. Contact information for the Defense
Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing DFO can be obtained
from the GSA's FACA Database--http://www.facadatabase.gov/.
The DFO, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.150, will announce planned
meetings of the Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel
Testing. The DFO, at that time, may provide additional guidance on the
submission of written statements that are in response to the stated
agenda for the planned meeting in question.
Dated: April 14, 2014.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2014-08775 Filed 4-16-14; 8:45 am]
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