SPACE SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON MONOPOLY OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS PUBLIC POLICY QUESTIONS ON THE OWNERSHIP AND SYSTEM 74095 AUGUST 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, AND 11, 1961 Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Small Business U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1961 CONTENTS Atkinson, Donald T., executive vice president, Communication Satel- lites, Inc., General Electric Co., 3198 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Brophy, Theodore F., vice president and general counsel, General 168, 188 Busignies, Dr. Henri, vice president and general technical director, Craven, T. A. M., Commissioner, Federal Communications Commis- Crook, Omar L., attorney for Hawaiian Telephone Co. of Honolulu, 203 424, 469 De Wolf, Francis Colt, Chief, Telecommunications Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C., accompanied Howard Furnas, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space---- Dingman, James E., vice president and chief engineer, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 195 Broadway, New York, N.Y.. Dunn, Joseph M., president, Dunn Engineering Corp., 225 Mon- signor O'Brien Highway, Cambridge, Mass. Engstrom, Dr. Elmer W., senior executive vice president, Radio Corp. of America, RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y.; accompanied by Robert L. Werner, vice president and general coun- sel, and Edmund A. Laport, director of Communications Engi- Furnas, Howard, Acting Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Wreatham E. Gathright, Chief of Outer Space Matters, Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary; Francis Colt DeWolf, Chief, Telecommunications Division, Office of the Assistant Secre- tary for Economic Affairs; and Harold A. Levin, Chief International Business Practices Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Glassman, Lawrence, Chief, Patents Procurement Branch, Signal Corps, Graham, William, executive vice president, North Electric Co., 241 242 192, 196 Gross, Courtlandt S., president, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 2555 North Howard, Daggett H., General Counsel, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by John A. Donohue, Chief, Contracts Division, Aviation Research and Development Service; Douglas L. Siegel, procurement attorney, Office of General Counsel; Joe D. Conerly, Chief, Communications Branch, Development Division, Aviation Research and Development Service; Maj. James E. Ogle, Assistant Chief, Frequency Management Staff Di- vision, Aviation Facilities Service; and Jack O. Crawford, con- Howley, R. V., president, Tropical Radio Telegraph Co., 30 James Isaacs, Roy H., vice president, Bendix Corp., 1100 Fisher Building, 237 Statement of-Continued Johnson, Leland L., economist, Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif__- Larsen, Dr. R. A., director and consultant, Midwest Technical De- Loevinger, Lee, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by John Duffner, executive assistant; Harry Sklarsky, attorney; John James, attorney; and Robert Saloschin, attorney, Office of Legal Long, Hon. Russell B., U.S. Senator from Louisiana (opening state- Maness, Irving, Deputy Administrator, Small Business Administra- tion, Washington, D.C., accompanied by Frederic T. Suss, General Metzger, S., Radio Corp. of America, RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Minow, Newton H., Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Commissioner T. A. M. Craven; Max D. Paglin, Assistant General Counsel; and Bernard Strassburg, Assistant Chief, Common Carrier Bureau. Ogle, Maj. James E., Assistant Chief, Frequency Management Staff Division, Aviation Facilities Service, Federal Aviation Agency, Page 87 324 146 421 Rubel, John H., Assistant Secretary of Defense (Deputy Director of Selly, Joseph P., president, American Communications Association, Siegel, Douglas L., procurement attorney, Office of General Counsel, Skinner, James M., president, Philco Corp., Tioga C and Streets, Smith, David B., vice president, technical affairs, Philco Corp., Tioga 58,71 398 528 366 525 376, 387 Smythe, Dr. Dallas W., research professor of communications, Insti- 95, 98 277 433, 475 Sohier, Walter D., Deputy General Counsel, National Aeronautics Thames, Brig. Gen. William M., U.S. Army, commanding general, U.S. Army ADVENT Management Agency, Fort Monmouth, N.J., accompanied by Lawrence Glassman, Chief, Patents Procurement Branch, Signal Corps, Washington, D.C... Trotter, Dr. Herbert, Jr., president, General Telephone & Electronics Laboratories, Inc., 730 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y., accompanied by Theodore F. Brophy, vice president and general counsel, General Webb, James E., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Ad- Welsh, Dr. E. C., executive secretary, National Aeronautics and Space Wilson, Donald M., Deputy Director, U.S. Information Agency, 267 2 FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND COMPANIES, REPRESENTED AT HEARINGS Army, U.S. Army ADVENT Management Agency, Fort Monmouth, N.J.- American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 195 Broadway, New York, N.Y.... Bendix Corp., 1100 Fisher Building, Detroit, Mich.. Communication Satellites, Inc., General Electric Co., 3198 Chestnut Street, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.. General Electric Co., 3198 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa... 390 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. General Telephone & Electronics Corp., 730 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. General Telephone & Electronics Laboratories, Inc., 730 Third Avenue, Hawaiian Telephone Co., Honolulu, Hawaii. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., 320 Park Avenue, New York, Justice, U.S. Department of, Washington, D.C. 24 192 421 267 I. Statement of the President on communication satellite policy, II. "The Soviet (or Marxist) View of Competition Under the Free III. Statement of the Department of Justice, May 5, 1961, before the Federal Communications Commission: In the matter of "An Inquiry Into the Administrative and Regulatory Problems Relating to the Authorization of Commercially Operable Space Communications Systems" (docket No. IV. Letter dated August 4, 1961, to Senator Russell B. Long, from Lee Loevinger, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, re downgrading of electric lamps by General V. "Passive Satellite Is Patented," reprint of article by Stacy V. VI (a). Public Notice C-7245, Federal Communications Commission, VIII. Biography of Dr. Dallas W. Smythe, research professor of com- |