COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts NEAL SMITH, Iowa JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York TOM BEVILL, Alabama JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana WILLIAM LEHMAN, Florida MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota JULIAN C. DIXON, California VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY, III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia CLAIR W. BURGENER, California JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois KEITH F. MAINLAND, Clerk and Staff Director MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1983 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1982. MX PROGRAM WITNESSES HON. RICHARD D. DeLAUER, UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING ROBERT A. STONE, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (FACILITIES, ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT), OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (MANPOWER, RESERVE AFFAIRS AND LOGISTICS) MAJ. GEN. C. D. WRIGHT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ENGINEERING AND SERVICES, HEADQUARTERS, U.S. AIR FORCE BRIG. GEN. JAMES MCCARTHY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR MX, DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION, HEADQUARTERS, U.S. AIR FORCE T. K. JONES, DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY FOR STRATEGIC AND THEATER NUCLEAR FORCES MARVIN C. ATKINS, DIRECTOR, OFFENSIVE AND SPACE SYSTEMS, OFFICE OF UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING MAJ. DONALD J. GRAYBILL, MX CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM MANAGER, ENGINEERING AND SERVICES, HEADQUARTERS, U.S. AIR FORCE Mr. GINN. The subcommittee will please come to order. Several of our other members will be dropping in and out. I think every committee on the Hill is meeting this morning. We are delighted to have a member of the full Appropriations Committee sitting in with us this morning, my colleague from the great state of Nebraska, Virginia Smith. Virginia has a very special interest in the future of the MX program, and we welcome your presence here this morning. Today the committee will review the President's revised program for the near-term basing of our land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system. The Air Force has requested a total of $236 million in fiscal year 1983 to fund testing, training, operational, maintenance, and repair facilities in five locations as well as planning and design. The $236 million MX request is the single largest construction program proposed in fiscal year 1983. Yet it appears that the program before us is without site designations, design, fully developed cost estimates, and full program coordination. |