NSTAC Teleconference 11-19-09

DHS announced yesterday that the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee will be holding a teleconference on November 19th. Portions of the teleconference will be open to the public. The public portion of the teleconference will be followed by closed session to discuss classified matters and sensitive business information. According to the Federal Register notice the “NSTAC advises the President on issues and problems related to implementing national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications policy” (74 FR 54061). The public agenda for this meeting includes:

Government stakeholder comments, A discussion and vote on the Satellite Task Force Report, and A discussion of the January-May portion of the NSTAC Work Plan.

Anyone wanting access to the teleconference needs to contact Ms. Sue Daage at (703) 235-5526 or by e-mail at sue.daage@dhs.gov by 5 p.m. November 12, 2009. Personnel wishing to submit comments or information to be considered by the committee needs to submit the material by November 30th. Submissions can be made via www.regulations.com (Docket NCS-2009-0004).