[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 138 (Friday, July 17, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43561-43562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15537]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Charter Renewal of Department of Defense Federal Advisory 
Committees

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD).

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory Committee.

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SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this notice to announce that it is 
renewing the charter for the Army Education Advisory Committee (``the 
Committee'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Freeman, Advisory Committee 
Management Officer for the Department of Defense, 703-692-5952.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee's charter is being renewed in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C., 
Appendix) and 41 CFR 102-3.50(d). The charter and contact information 
for the Committee's Designated Federal Officer (DFO) are found at 
https://www.facadatabase.gov/FACA/apex/FACAPublicAgencyNavigation.
    The Committee provides independent advice and recommendations on 
U.S. Army educational matters. The Committee will focus on matters 
pertaining to the educational doctrinal, and research policies and 
activities of the U.S. Army's educational programs, to include the U.S. 
Army's joint professional military education

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programs. The Committee will assess and provide independent advice and 
recommendations across the spectrum of educational policies, school 
curricula, educational philosophy and objectives, program 
effectiveness, facilities, staff and faculty, instructional methods, 
and other aspects of the organization and management of these programs. 
The Committee will also provide independent advice and recommendations 
on matters pertaining to the Army Historical Program and the role and 
mission of the U.S. Army Center of Military History, particularly as 
they pertain to the study and use of military history in Army schools. 
The Committee shall be composed of no more than 15 members. The 
membership will include: (a) Not more than 11 individuals who are 
eminent authorities in the fields of defense, management, leadership, 
and academia, including those who are deemed to be historical scholars; 
(b) the Chief Historian of the Army, U.S. Army, Center of Military 
History; and (c) the Chairs of the United States Army War College Board 
of Visitors Subcommittee, Command and General Staff College Board of 
Visitors Subcommittee, and Defense Language Institute Foreign Language 
Board of Visitors Subcommittee, who are eminent authorities in the 
fields of defense, management, leadership, and academia will serve as 
members of the Committee.
    Committee members who are not full-time or permanent part-time 
Federal civilian officers, employees, or active duty members of the 
Armed Forces will be appointed as experts or consultants, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, to serve as special government employee members. Committee 
members who are full-time or permanent part-time Federal civilian 
officers, employees, or active duty members of the Armed Forces will be 
appointed pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.130(a), to serve as regular 
government employee members.
    All members of the Committee are appointed to provide advice on the 
basis of their best judgment without representing any particular point 
of view and in a manner that is free from conflict of interest. Except 
for reimbursement of official Committee-related travel and per diem, 
members serve without compensation.
    The public or interested organizations may submit written 
statements to the Committee 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 the Committee. All 
written statements shall be submitted to the DFO for the Committee, and 
this individual will ensure that the written statements are provided to 
the membership for their consideration.

    Dated: July 13, 2020.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2020-15537 Filed 7-16-20; 8:45 am]
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