[Federal Register: October 21, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 202)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
National Communications System
[Docket No. NCS-2009-0004]
President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory
Committee
AGENCY: National Communications System, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of a partially closed advisory committee meeting.
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SUMMARY: The President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory
Committee (NSTAC) will be meeting by teleconference; the meeting will
be partially closed to the public.
DATES: November 19, 2009, from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place by teleconference. For access to
the conference bridge and meeting materials, contact Ms. Sue Daage at
(703) 235-5526 or by e-mail at sue.daage@dhs.gov by 5 p.m. November 12,
2009. If you desire to submit comments regarding the November 19, 2009
meeting, they must be submitted by November 30, 2009. Comments must be
identified by NCS-2009-0004 and may be submitted by one of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: NSTAC1@dhs.gov. Include docket number in the subject line
of the message.
Mail: Office of the Manager, National Communications System
(Government Industry Planning and Management Branch), Department of
Homeland Security, 245 Murray Lane SW., Washington, DC 20598-0615; Fax:
1-866-466-5370.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the words
``Department of Homeland Security'' and NCS-2009-0004, the docket
number for this action. Comments received will be posted without
alteration at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket, background documents or comments
received by the NSTAC, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Sue Daage, Government Industry
Planning and Management Branch at (703) 235-5526, e-mail:
sue.daage@dhs.gov or write the Deputy Manager, National Communications
System, Department of Homeland Security, 245 Murray Lane SW.,
Washington, DC 20598-0615.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NSTAC advises the President on issues and
problems related to implementing national security and emergency
preparedness telecommunications policy. Notice of this meeting is given
under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), Public Law 92-463
(1972), as amended appearing in 5 U.S.C. App. 2. At the upcoming
meeting, between 12 p.m. and 12:35 p.m., the NSTAC Principals will
receive government stakeholder comments, hold a discussion and vote on
the Satellite Task Force Report, and discuss the January-May portion of
the NSTAC Work Plan. This portion of the meeting will be open to the
public. Between 12:35 p.m. and 1 p.m., the Principals will receive an
update on the work of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Task Force.
Persons with disabilities who require special assistance should
indicate this when arranging access to the teleconference and are
encouraged to identify anticipated special needs as early as possible.
Basis For Closure: During the portion of the meeting to be held
from 12:35 p.m. to 1 p.m., the NSTAC will discuss cybersecurity
collaboration between the private sector and the Federal Government.
Such discussions will likely include identification of network
vulnerabilities and strategies for mitigating those vulnerabilities.
NSTAC members will likely inform the discussion by contributing
confidential and voluntarily-provided commercial information relating
to private sector cybersecurity vulnerabilities that they would not
customarily release to the public. Disclosure of this information can
be reasonably expected to frustrate DHS's ongoing cyber security
programs and initiatives, especially the National Cyber Incident
Response Plan, and could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in the
Federal Government's cyber network. Accordingly, the relevant portion
of this meeting will be closed to the public pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(2), (4) and (9)(B).
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Dated Signed: October 1, 2009.
James Madon,
Director, National Communications System.
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