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Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines (2001)

Chapter: Appendix B: Committee Meetings

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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Appendix B

Committee Meetings

FIRST MEETING

November 15–16, 1999

Arlington, Virginia

Meeting objectives: introduce National Research Council procedures; complete administrative actions, including committee introductions and composition/balance/bias discussions for members, committee and report procedures, and committee administrative support methodology; discuss genesis of the study with congressional staff; discuss Statement of Task with sponsor; discuss draft report outline; discuss project plan and report realization; make writing assignments; receive overview briefing on strategic and tactical uses of antipersonnel landmines; determine objectives, location, and date of next committee meeting.

Presenters

Strategic & Tactical Landmine Usage Overview

Greg Bornhoft, project manager

BRTRC Technology Research Corporation

Sponsor Discussion Time

Peter O'Neill, sponsor representative

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Congressional Perspective

Tim Rieser, staff

Office of Senator Patrick Leahy

SECOND MEETING

December 9–11, 1999

Arlington, Virginia

Meeting objectives: complete composition/balance/bias discussions for committee members; achieve better understanding of compliance requirements for Ottawa Convention; achieve better understanding of both current and future strategic contexts for the use of antipersonnel landmines; consider previous efforts to provide alternative technologies to antipersonnel landmines; receive update on on-going efforts to provide alternative technologies to antipersonnel landmines; allow sufficient time for committee deliberations; discuss project plan and updated draft report outline; consider and approve Report Concept Draft; make writing assignments; determine objectives, location and date for the next committee meeting.

Presenters

The U.S. Army and Future Warfare

LTG Randall L. Rigby

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

U.S. Antipersonnel Landmine Policy: Presidential Decision Directive

Anne Witkowsky

National Security Council Staff

Ottawa Convention and the Convention on Conventional Weapons (Amended Mines Protocol)

Michael J. Matheson

Principal Deputy Legal Advisor

U.S. Department of State

How and When the US Military Uses Landmines

LTC Michael W. Biering

Engineer Team Chief, ODCSOPS-FDD

Headquarters, Department of the Army

Joint Vision 2010

MG George Close

Director for Operational Plans and Interoperability (J-7) Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Antipersonnel Landmines Alternative Programs

Tom Altshuler, Program Manager

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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The Importance of Antipersonnel Landmines in Korea

COL John F. Troxell

Director of National Security Studies

U.S. Army War College

Currently Available and Near-Term Alternatives to Landmines to Achieve Combined Forces Command Objectives in Korea

Caleb Rossiter

Consultant, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

THIRD MEETING

January 13–15, 2000

Irvine, California

Meeting objectives: complete composition/balance/bias discussions for committee members, reaffirm understanding of Statement of Task; consider ongoing efforts to identify alternative technologies to antipersonnel landmines; consider nonmateriel alternatives; allow sufficient time for committee deliberations; discuss project plan and updated draft report outline; consider and approve report initial draft; finalize site visit objectives and locations; make writing assignments; determine objectives, location, and date of next committee meeting.

Presenters

LLNL Analysis of Antipersonnel Landmine/Alternative Utility

Robert J. Greenwalt, Jr., Engineer Analyst

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Track 1–Technology Alternatives

John A. Rosamilia, Chief, Mine Division

Office of Project Manager, Mines, Countermine, and Demolitions

The Conservative Alternative to Persistent Antipersonnel Landmines

Richard L. Garwin

Chairman, State Department Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board

and

Robert Sherman

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Air Force Alternatives

Lt. Col. Charles Beason

Brooks Medical Center

and

Kirk E. Hackett

Air Force Research Laboratory

Non-Materiel Alternatives

Eric Haseltine, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist Walt Disney Imagineering

FOURTH MEETING

April 4–5, 2000

Washington, D.C.

Meeting objectives: reaffirm understanding of Statement of Task; discuss project plan and updated draft report outline; consider and mark up preliminary first full message draft; make writing assignments; determine objectives, location, and date of next committee meeting.

Presenter

Sponsor Discussion

Peter O'Neill, sponsor representative

Office of the Secretary of Defense

FIFTH MEETING

May 23–25, 2000

Washington, D.C.

Meeting Objectives: review report realization road map; discuss project plan and status; meet with CETS Editor; consider additional alternative ideas / systems; review / discuss preliminary concurrence draft; achieve initial consensus on conclusions and recommendations; make writing assignments, as necessary.

Presenters

U.S. Programs to Develop Alternatives to Antipersonnel Mines

Mark Hiznay, Senior Military Advisor

Human Rights Watch

Military Alternatives to Landmines

Edwin A. Deagle Jr., Consultant

Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation

Discussion on Editorial Procedures

Carol Arenberg, Editor

Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems

National Research Council

SIXTH MEETING

July 13–14, 2000

Washington, D.C.

Meeting Objectives: review report realization road map; discuss project plan and status; review / discuss concurrence draft; achieve consensus on conclusions and recommendations; make writing assignments, as necessary.

No presenters

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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SITE VISITS

Several site visits were made by subgroups of the committee to observe existing systems and research and development of new systems.


Quantico Marine Base

Quantico, Virginia

December 21, 1999

Participants

Joint Nonlethal Weapons Program

Col George Fenton, Director

Department of Defense, Joint Non-lethal Weapons Directorate

Joint Nonlethal Weapons Program

Ken Tiedge, Project Engineer

Department of Defense, Joint Non-lethal Weapons Directorate

Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program

Kevin Stull, Project Engineer

Department of Defense, Joint Non-lethal Weapons Directorate


Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

Washington, D.C.

February 1, 2000

Participant

Future Requirements for Antipersonnel Landmines

LTG Robert Gard, U.S. Army (ret.)

Consultant


Office of Project Manager for Mines, Countermine, and Demolitions

Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey

February 10, 2000

Participants

Nonlethal Bounding Munitions and Canister Launched Area Denial System

COL Wilfred E. Irish

Project Manager for Mines, Countermines and Demolitions

Raptor System Overview

Marc A. Strano, Project Engineer

U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments

Command, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Hornet / WAM

Richard Wagner

U.S. Army Armaments Research,

Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC)


Logistics Management Institute

McLean, Virginia

February 17, 2000

Participant

Future Requirements for Antipersonnel Landmines

GEN William G. T. Tuttle, Jr., U.S. Army (ret.), President

Logistics Management Institute


Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Arlington, Virginia

February 17, 2000

Participant

Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement (AMSTE) Program

Timothy P. Grayson

DARPA Special Projects Office


Office of Project Manager for Mines, Countermine, and Demolitions

Crystal City, Virginia

February 25, 2000

Participant

Nonlethal Mine Alternatives

Edward Persau

Project Officer


Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Arlington, Virginia

March 3, 2000

Participants

Sensor Information Technology

Sri Kumar

DARPA, Information Technology Office

Small Unit Operations: Tactical Sensors

Edward Carapezza

DARPA, Advanced Technology Office

Mobile Autonomous Robot Software

COL Mark Swinson

DARPA, Information Technology Office

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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Distributed Robotics Program

Ellison (Dick) C. Urban

DARPA, Microsystems Technology Office


Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

Washington, D.C.

March 8, 2000

Participant

Future Requirements for Antipersonnel Landmines

LTG Robert Gard, U.S. Army (ret.)

Consultant


U.S. Army War College

Washington, D.C.

March 28, 2000

Participant

Future Requirements for Antipersonnel Landmines

MG Robert H. Scales, Jr.

Commandant


U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate

Fort Belvoir, Virginia

March 31, 2000

Participants

NVESD Simulation Support

Mid Self, Chief, Virtual Experiments

Modeling and Simulation Division

U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate

Potential Applications to Alternate Mine Solutions

William D'Amico

Advanced Munitions Concepts Branch

Weapons and Materials Research

Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Uncooled Micro-camera Technology

Don Reago, Director, Science and Technology Division

U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate

Launched Grapnel Hook

Larry Nee, Chief Countermine Division

Office of Project Manager for Mines, Countermine, and Demolitions

Sensor Applications for Antipersonnel and Landmine Alternatives and Beyond

Michael Jennings, Deputy

U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate

Warrior Extended Battlespace Sensors

John Eicke

U.S. Army Research Laboratory


U.S. Department of Defense

Washington, D.C.

May 5, 2000

Participant

Future Requirements for Antipersonnel Landmines

Hans Mark

Director of Defense Research and Engineering


Office of Project Manager for Mines, Countermine, and Demolitions

Pentagon, Virginia

October 10, 2000

Participants

Track III Alternatives

William Morelli

Project Officer


Washington Team Meetings

A small number of committee members in the national capital region established a subgroup that met many times to address the evaluation methodology. Members of this group were Thomas F. Hafer, J. Jerome Holton, Lee M. Hunt, Richard H. Johnson, Larry Lehowicz, and K. Anne Street.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2001. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10071.
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This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military’s arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military’s antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today’s mines provide to the military.

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