[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 160 (Tuesday, August 19, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49066-49067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-19631]
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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 (DoD) is publishing this notice to
announce that it is renewing the charter for the Board of Visitors,
National Defense University (``the Board'').
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 in
accordance with 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 Board is a discretionary Federal advisory committee that
provides the Secretary of Defense and/or the Deputy Secretary of
Defense, through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the
President of the National Defense University, independent advice and
recommendations on the overall management and governance of the
National Defense University in achieving its mission to support the
joint warfighter by providing rigorous Joint Professional Military
Education to members of the U.S. Armed Forces and select others in
order to develop leaders who have the ability to operate and creatively
think in an unpredictable and complex world.
The DoD, through the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the President of the National Defense University and the
University Office of Academic Affairs, provides the necessary support
for the performance of the Board's functions and ensures compliance
with the requirements of the FACA, the Government in the Sunshine Act
of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended) (``the Sunshine Act''), governing
Federal statutes and regulations, and established DoD policies and
procedures.
The Board shall be comprised of no more than 12 members, who are
appointed by the Secretary of Defense. The members are eminent
authorities in the fields of defense, management, leadership, academia,
national military strategy or joint planning at all levels of war,
joint doctrine, joint command and control, or joint requirements and
development.
The Secretary of Defense or the Deputy Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall
select the Board's Chair and Co-Chair from the approved Board
membership. The leadership appointments shall not exceed the individual
member's approved term of service.
Board members, who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal
officers or employees, shall be appointed as experts or consultants,
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, to serve as special government employee
(SGE) members. Board members who are full-time or permanent part-time
Federal employees shall be appointed, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.130(a),
to serve as regular government employee (RGE) members.
Each Board member is appointed to provide advice to the government
on the basis of his or her best judgment without representing any
particular point of view and in a manner that is free from conflict of
interest. With the exception of reimbursement for official Board-
related travel and per diem, Board members shall serve without
compensation.
The Secretary of Defense, or the Deputy Secretary of Defense, may
approve the appointment of Board members for one-to-four year terms of
service with annual renewals. However, no member, unless authorized by
the Secretary of Defense or the Deputy Secretary of Defense, may serve
more than two consecutive terms of service. This same term of service
limitation also applies to any DoD authorized subcommittees.
In addition, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pursuant to
DoD policies and procedures, may appoint, as deemed necessary, non-
voting consultants as subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide special
expertise to the Board. These SMEs, if not full-time or part-time
government employees, shall be appointed, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, on
an intermittent basis to work specific Board-related efforts, shall
have no voting rights whatsoever on the Board or any of its
subcommittees, shall not participate in the Board's deliberations, and
shall not count toward the Board's total membership. All experts and
consultants shall serve terms of appointments as determined by the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and those appointments may be
renewed, as appropriate.
DoD, when necessary and consistent with the Board's mission and DoD
policies and procedures, may establish subcommittees, task forces, or
working groups to support the Board. 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 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the DoD
sponsor.
Such subcommittees shall not work independently of the Board and
shall report all of their recommendations and advice solely to the
Board 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 Board. No
subcommittee or its members can update or report, verbally or in
writing, on behalf of the Board, directly to the DoD or to any Federal
officer or employee.
The Secretary of Defense or the Deputy Secretary of Defense will
appoint subcommittee members to a term of service of one-to-four years,
with annual renewals, even if the member in question is already a
member of the Board. 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.
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Subcommittee members, if not full-time or part-time Federal
officers or employees, shall be appointed as experts and consultants,
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, to serve as SGE members. Subcommittee
members who are full-time or permanent part-time Federal officers or
employees will serve as RGE members, pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.130(a).
With the exception of reimbursement for official Board-related travel
and per diem, 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 estimated number of Board
meetings is two per year. The Board's Designated Federal Officer (DFO),
pursuant to DoD policy, shall be a full-time or permanent part-time DoD
employee appointed in accordance with governing DoD policies and
procedures.
The Board's DFO is required to be in attendance at all meetings of
the Board and any of its subcommittees for the entire duration of each
and every meeting. However, in the absence of the Board's DFO, a
properly approved Alternate DFO, duly appointed to the Board according
to established DoD policies and procedures, shall attend the entire
duration of the Board or any subcommittee meeting.
The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, shall call all meetings of the Board
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.
Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the public or
interested organizations may submit written statements to Board of
Visitors, National Defense University membership about the Board's
mission and functions. Written statements may be submitted at any time
or in response to the stated agenda of planned meeting of the Board of
Visitors, National Defense University.
All written statements shall be submitted to the DFO for the Board
of Visitors, National Defense University, and this individual will
ensure that the written statements are provided to the membership for
their consideration. Contact information for the Board of Visitors,
National Defense University 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 Board of Visitors, National Defense University. 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: August 14, 2014.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2014-19631 Filed 8-18-14; 8:45 am]
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