control facility as the testing being accomplished requires numerous test and recording equipment to be placed in or near the control center. The lack of weather protected and physically secure space necessitates that the system be torn down and set up daily. These vans were intended to be used as instrumentation facilities for shortterm tests conducted away from the range areas. They were not intended for use as an artillery control center. Urgent requirements made it necessary to use vans to partially meet the requirements of the needed buildings. Much of the test and recording equipment is delicate and has to be transported over exceedingly rough terrain, trails, firebreaks, etc., in the east and west ranges and results in excessive maintenance caused by the daily transport to the test sites. If this project is constructed, then the two vans will be available for use as instrumentation facilities for other projects. The following savings could be effected: Eliminate two men per test at three tests per day, or 48 man-hours per day, 240 man-hours per week, 12,480 man-hours per year. The following is an estimate of the monetary savings per year; $200,000 may be saved by eliminating repeat artillery firing. These repeat firings are required when starting the testing on the following day, to reaffirm operation of equipment. Additional repeat firings are necessary due to malfunction of equipment caused by daily travel of equipment over rough terrain; $200,000 may be saved by consolidation of equipment requirements and releasing the vans for their intended use; $100,000 may be saved by eliminating excessive maintenance of both electronic equipment and vehicles incurred by daily transport over rough terrain. The fuse countermeasures test program will be delayed and hampered by the lack of instrumentation facilities. Inaccurate data will be gathered due to necessity of setting up complete system daily. The fuse countermeasure test program consists in part of the following tests: Huntlock-on receiver, missile fuse system, bomb fuse system, infrared seeker-type system, fuse disseminators, and fuse simulators.

The antenna program will be delayed and hampered by the lack of instrumentation facilities. This program consists of testing countermeasures antennas with each of the following systems: Fuse countermeasure systems, radar systems, multiple purpose jammer systems, navigational aid systems, and communications systems.

Drone test facility: This facility is required to support the mission of the drone program which is to gather all available information, day or night, relative to enemy movements in any given sector. This system can give an Army commander, without jeopardizing the lives of personnel, information gathered by television, photography, infrared, or radar. This project will permit a recoverable surveillance drone operation facility in the west range area of 25,000 yards range, nearly double that of the present east range site. This longer range is essential to properly test the present SD-1, SD-2, and SD-3, and the future SD-4 and SD-5 drone systems which are larger and contain longer range drone equipment. Advanced drones SD-4 and SD-5 are under development now by the Fairchild and Republic Aviation Cos. These drones and the present drones will be laboratory flight tested by this proposed facility. When the Fort HuachucaYuma corridor for the flight of higher performance drones is completed, this facility will be used in support of the Fort Huachuca

terminal of the drone corridor. It will also be used for support of any and all drone flights made out of the Fort Huachuca area. Yuma will be a field-type area compared to the Fort Huachuca engineering and scientific purposes. As the drone program progresses and more reliable and accurate devices are developed, the Fort Huachuca-Yuma corridor will become a single complex requiring support activities at both ends. Present functions of the Drone Division are met by one mobilization-type barracks serving as headquarters and lab building. The present operations area is served by two quonset-type buildings on the east range that are not air conditioned, and are crowded by having to include storage facilities in that building. There is no hardstand of any type making it impossible to get photographic record of launching. All the existing facilities are deficient in the following respects; inadequate floor area, air filtration, electrical power, illumination, loading and unloading dock facilities, and no POL storage area. The existing barracks will revert to troop housing. The two existing quonsets will be used for storage of drone aircraft components. This new facility will save approximately 32 man-hours per day by eliminating daily transportation of personnel and equipment to the drone launch area. The new facility will eliminate the present excessive maintenance costs by providing maintenance in the immediate test area, will eliminate the excessive haul distance and the new concrete launch pad will eliminate excessive sand in the engine and control system. This west range facility is a necessity to train USCONARC combat surveillance personnel with the new larger and longer range drone. Also there is a six-channel telemetry system that cannot be used for lack of housing facilities and in the near future delivery of a 24-channel system will be made. This facility will provide adequate facilities to house telemetry facilities. The present east range will be retained to carry out normal drone testing and evaluation missions.

Target simulation range: A target simulation range, to be located on the west range, is necessary to support the assigned mission of the combat surveillance department. The primary purpose of the proj ect is to detect, identify, and locate friendly forces and enemy targets such as personnel, vehicles, tanks, missile launching sites, and other facilities of combat that have susceptibility of detection by surveillance methods. This range will enable test personnel to carefully evaluate the items being tested against known control points and parameter. In line with the assigned mission, facilities must be available for certain phases of engineering tests as well as operational field testing of equipment, components, and subsystems in the combat surveillance area. This project supports the electronic environmental test facility in that it will be in the area in which both manned and unmanned controlled flights of breadboard models of sensing devices such as infrared, television, radar, and photography will be tested. These tests will be primarily in support of feasibility studies required for future drones. For the present, it will be used for controlled flights of surveillance drone (SD)-1 type drones. This facility is required for all types of aerial vehicles when it is necessary to perform limited flights under precisely controlled conditions for the evaluation of combat surveillance tasks. In the future, when we have the more sophisticated drone systems, various devices will be

tested out in this controlled target simulation range and when satisfactory, will be passed in final form to the longer range facilities which will probably be located in the vicinity of Yuma at some future date. The facility at Yuma is part of the present electronic environmental test facility program and will be included as a supporting item in that overall program. The target simulation range will be required at the Army Electronic Proving Ground, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., without regard to the overall electronic environmental test facility. This project provides a test facility comparable in physical layout but at reduced distances to the tactical area, battle grouped with accurate control data in order to test technical characteristics and results, sensitivity of combat surveillance equipment employing infrared, radar, television, photographic, acoustical, and seismic principles. The conditions and targets normally encountered in combat can be reproduced during evaluation and testing by the reduced size dynamic environment provided by this project.

Equipment tests are being presently conducted using targets whose characteristics do not adequately and completely represent those to be encountered in tactical situations; the parameters of these targets cannot be accurately determined, controlled, nor reproduced. Unless this project is provided the proper and reliable data cannot be realized, resultng in inconclusive evidence as to the equipment's relative value to the combat surveillance program.

This project is not a replacement or duplication of an existing facility. Personnel will not be housed in this facility.

Extension of utilities (test area): This item is required to furnish commercial power, to provide water for and roads to the test facilities located on the range areas. Portable generators are now in use in the range areas. This power source has proven to be unsatisfactory due to unstable voltage and frequency. Any fluctuations in voltage or frequency introduces errors in the recording instrumentation equipment. Commercial power at this site will eliminate the recording errors mentioned above, thus eliminating much of the time-consuming work in data reduction, expecially in tests where artillery fire is used. Many times the data is not completely reduced and errors are not detected until the artillery unit has returned to its home station, thus delaying retesting for approximately 6 months until artillery support is again available. This causes serious delays in accomplishment of objectives set forth. If commercial power is provided, the power units would be diverted to other use or returned to the supply system. Similar conditions would result if mobile-type generator units were utilized at other test facilities to be serviced by this construction. In addition to the time savings mentioned above, the following man-hours would be saved:

Two hundred family quarters (Capehart): This project is required to provide family housing for civilian personnel assigned or em

ployed at this installation. Adequate and appropriate rental quarters are nonexistent within reasonable communicating distances at the installation. There are 277 inadequate family quarters, constructed on the installation under the provisions of FPHA, and Lanham Act jurisdiction, which are being rented to military and civilian personnel during the interim of the existing acute housing shortage. From the date of its activation, the USAEPG's program has been fraught with delays and difficulties beyond the control of either the commanding general, USAEPG, or the Chief Signal Officer. One of the greatest deterrents has been that of attracting and retaining an adequate civilian work force. The USAEPG's current experimental, developmental, and testing programs cannot be sustained, much less expanded and accelerated to the degree required, unless it is capable of attracting and retaining civilian employees of high professional stature, and the necessary supporting technicians and administrative personnel required.

The CHAIRMAN. Now, General, my book shows that a more careful estimate has been made and you can reduce that down to $3,230,000. General SEEMAN. Yes, sir; and the scope has been

The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, that is agreed to-has been somewhat reduced.

Mr. GUBSER. What is "hardstand"?

General SEEMAN. It is a parking area for aircraft, to keep them from stirring up sand out there. In other places it would be mud. The CHAIRMAN. All right.

Go ahead, Mr. Kelleher. Corps of Engineers.

Mr. KELLEHER. Corps of Engineers. Page 69. Fort Belvoir, Va.: Operational facilities, medical facilities, research, development, and test facilities, and utilities, $1.376,000.

General SEEMAN. The mission of this installation is as follows: Maintenance and operation of engineer field maintenance and engineer troop supply activities of the Engineer Center and Military District of Washington. Training of assigned or attached engineer general reserve units and bulk allotment troops. Maintenance and operation of the Engineer Service Test Unit. To maintain and operate the Engineer Research and Development Laboratories for the purpose of research and development as directed by the Chief of Engineers. Provide administration and jurisdiction over all Army aviation operations, maintenance and supply for all aviation units and activities assigned, attached or stationed at Davison Army Airfield, for aviation service for Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and the Military District of Washington.

The present personnel strength of this installation is 13,348, and the long-range strength is 17,261. The inventory total of land and improvements as of June 30, 1958, totals $75,359,547. Authorization not yet in inventory totals $3,347,000. Authorization in this request totals $1,376,000.

The line item projects for which authorization at this installation is requested are:

Extension of runway (Davison Army Airfield): A 600-foot extension of the existing runway is necessary to provide additional safety protection during instrument flight conditions. A runway of 3,000 linear feet is authorized but when barometric and temperature

factors of this area are applied, a runway of 3,600 linear feet is required. The corresponding extension to the present taxiway and lighting must be provided also to meet operational requirements of the extended runway. At present there are 28 fixed wing aircraft made up of 12 L-23's, 4 L-26's, 5 L-20's, and 7 L-19's, which are averaging 1,200 landings per month. Davison Army Airfield will soon be fully instrumented giving it the capability of landing aircraft under absolute minimum weather conditions. The present runway length does not allow any margin of safety for instrument approach. A missed approach would require aircraft to remain aloft in already high density traffic area, obtain a new radio fix and make new approach when proper distance separation from other aircraft is possible. This involves the additional hazard of running out of fuel. Failure to provide the extension proposed in this program will force the continued training of instrument pilots under hazardous conditions and continued operation of instrument flights with less than the required minimum length of runway. Davison Army Airfield has a primary mission for the transportation of military and civilian personnel of the DOD.

Security fence and perimeter road (DAAF): This project is urgently required to provide satisfactory security for Davison Army Airfield. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the mission assigned Davison Army Airfield, it is essential that unauthorized personnel be kept away from the aircraft operating areas. Landings and takeoffs are on the increase at Davison Army Airfield. Because of its sensitive security nature, it is essential that the airfield be separated physically from the surrounding area. This can best be accomplished by a security fence. The perimeter road is a necessary adjunct for guard patrol, which will act as a fire break, and to provide access to any portion of the field in the event of accident. The present inventory is 28 fixed wing and 46 rotary wing aircraft at Davison Army Airfield. No security fence or perimeter road exists. No existing facility is available to be continued in use or rehabilitated. The scope of this item was determined from the airfield design based on the master plan. This item will satisfy security and safety requirements and will permit uninterrupted operation for the foreseeable future. Modification of building 318: This building houses the Survey and Geodesy Map Compilation Branches of the Topographic Engineering Department of ERDL. Priority R. & D. projects in the field are under study and development by scientists and engineers working in this building. One of the more critical of these projects pertains to target location, requiring the development of techniques and equipment for high dependability geodetic information to determine accurately the location of targets for surface-to-surface missiles in combat areas. Other projects are: Utilization of radar presentations for mapping; analytical photogrammetry; automatic map compilation systems; inertial survey systems; automatic tracking theodolite; and automatic position survey equipment. The alterations will provide 4,800 square feet of office space, 5,440 square feet of laboratory space, 900 square feet of storage, and 2,900 square feet of hallways, toilets, and closets. The building without the modification proposed is inadequate. It is a warehouse. It cannot qualify as a laboratory by today's standards. There are no means for precise control of hu