DSB to hold closed meetings on 2024 summer study

The Defense Science Board will hold closed meetings throughout the last week of August to discuss the findings of a new study focused on advanced military technologies, according to a Federal Register notice.

The meetings will focus on a classified summer study on “advanced capabilities for potential future conflict,” which Pentagon technology chief Heidi Shyu commissioned the board to conduct in December.

The board is scheduled to hear from David Honey, the deputy defense under secretary for research and engineering who will provide remarks on the summer study’s objectives.

Additionally, the board will discuss strategies that support the Defense Department’s “continued development of symmetric and asymmetric capabilities that will characterize future conflicts.”

Prior DSB meetings about the 2024 Summer Study on Advanced Capabilities for Potential Future Conflict have been closed, despite the fact that the board operates under a statute designed to promote open and transparent proceedings.