Weapons Acquisitions: Guided Weapon Plans Need to be Reassessed : Report to Congressional Requesters |
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Acquisition Plans AF/N aggregate Air Force Air-to-Air Missile aircraft assessment ATACMS Block Attack Weapons Mix Based on Optimistic budgetary and security Capabilities and Acquisition Chiefs of Staff CINCS cost-effective current inventory deep attack weapons Defense Acquisition Defense Intelligence Agency Defense Program DOD plans DOD Requirements DOD's effectiveness fewer weapons fiscal Future Years Defense Guided Weapon Capabilities Guided Weapon Procurement guided weapon programs guided weapon requirements Guided Weapons Appear Guided Weapons Based Gulf Hellfire II improve increase Inflated inventory of guided JASSM JDAM Joint Chiefs Joint Warfare JSOW launch military models munitions National Defense Panel Navy Optimistic Funding Projections Persian Gulf War plan to buy planned guided weapon Plans for Guided procurement funding procuring guided weapons production Proliferation of Guided Quadrennial Defense Review recommendations Requirements for Guided Secretary of Defense security environment services plan SLAM-ER standoff range submunitions target class WCMD Weapons Mix Study weapons needed
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Page 46 - Its responsiveness to the needs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for operations analysis.
Page 46 - Defense on the priorities of the requirements identified by the commanders of the unified combatant commands and on the extent to which program recommendations and budget proposals of the military departments and other DOD components for a fiscal year conform with priorities established in requirements of the unified combatant commands.
Page 50 - ... alternative solutions, including the joint acquisition of systems with the other services. In addition, because DOD does not routinely develop information on joint mission needs and aggregate capabilities, it has little assurance that decisions to buy, modify, or retire systems are sound.
Page 51 - A. JOHNSON, ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY (LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS) COL. ROBERT M. LUCY, USMC, LEGAL ADVISER AND LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIRMAN, JCS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Mr. MAHON. The committee will begin the hearing with the Secretary of Defense, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and with the Comptroller of the Department of Defense. We are to discuss defense matters in general, with particular reference to the 1973 budget. Mr. Secretary, we consider you as a valued friend and a former...
Page 51 - DOD view for decision by the Secretary of Defense in conjunction with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Page 27 - ... and most experts expect steady, positive global economic growth — on the order of 4 percent per year — well beyond the next decade. From a national security standpoint, the threats facing the United States have diminished in order of magnitude and we are unlikely to face a global military challenger on the scale of the former Soviet Union for at least the next two decades. The world is spending in real terms some 30 percent to 40 percent less on defense than it did during the height of the...
Page 42 - However, to the extent that the QDR views major theater warfare as a traditional force-on-force challenge, this view inhibits the transformation of the American military to fully exploit our advantages as well as the vulnerabilities of potential opponents.
Page 30 - It should be noted, however, that only a small fraction of the target base was attacked during the Gulf War.
Page 56 - ... merely on continued research and development but should proceed with actual deployment of an operating system. The Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Dr. John Foster, has prepared the following statement of the purposes of the Sentinel System, which I have approved on the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and the Air Force. "The Sentinel missile defense system is designed to (a) prevent a successful missile attack from China through the...