Noun
task force (plural task forces)
(business, government, military) A group of people working towards a particular task, project, or activity, especially assigned in a particular capacity.
The CEO's task force developed a thoroughgoing marketing strategy for the new product line.
a temporary group of military units brought together, under a single commander, to accomplish a specific objective
(by extension) a similar group of individuals assigned a task
Source: en.wiktionary.orgtask-force
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. Jack Adams
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. Ruben Hinojosa
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force. Charlie Norwood
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. Jack Adams
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it. Janet Napolitano
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. Jennifer Granholm