carrier mission, radar squadron, Military Air Transport Service air rescue center, and an air rescue squadron.

The program requested for this base amounts to $117,000. The first project alters 1,500 linear feet of approach lighting to provide a more effective and more reliable system.

The last project provides 1,920 square feet of refueling vehicle shop to provide a safe, adequate facility for the maintenance and repair of refueling vehicles. No facility exists that can be utilized for this type of hazardous work.

Senator CANNON. Is this lighting approach system the new system that we have been installing over a period of years, the high intensity system?

General CURTIN. That is correct, with the Strobe units.

Senator CANNON. With the Strobe units.

General CURTIN. Yes, sir, this is a continuation of our program to update all of our lighting.

Senator CANNON. How many of those do you have in the program this year?

General CURTIN. Eight projects, sir.

Senator CANNON. So it will be a recurring item.

General CURTIN. Yes, sir, it will.

Senator CANNON. All right, sir.

STEWART AIR FORCE BASE, N.Y.

Colonel FENLON. The next base is on page 39, Stewart Air Force Base located four miles west of Newburgh, N.Y. This base is used for an Air Defense Command air division headquarters, a SAGE combat center, a defense system evaluations squadron, and a combat support squadron. The program requested consists of one project for $414,000 which will modify the existing approach lights to provide rapid and accurate runway orientation during instrument-landing approaches. Senator CANNON. How do you account for the difference in cost between those two? You have got one here that costs $414,000 and yet the last one called for $42,000.

General CURTIN. One is a modification to an existing system and only involves 1,500 feet as I recall. This one is a 3,000-foot, a complete system.

Senator CANNON. What necessitates. the modification? If you already had a system installed there, why do you need to modify this relatively new system so soon after its installation?

Colonel FENLON. At Selfridge, sir, the system did not have the Strobe lights. It had the old A system as we call it, and this was actually a modification to install the Strobe lighting for 1,500 feet at Selfridge.

Senator CANNON. One further question. indicated a substantial use of T-33 aircraft. at this base?

There at Stewart, you
What are they used for

Colonel FENLON. Sir, I am sure that they are CRT aircraft in support of the Air Defense Command headquarters and units there. În addition, of course, we have B-57's and C-123's.

Senator CANNON. You might check a little further on the use of the T-33 and supply a statement for the record, if you will.

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General CURTIN. All right, sir.

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Stewart Air Force Base, and more specifically, Headquarters 26 Air Division has 11 T-33 aircraft assigned. The mission of these aircraft is combat support. Pilots assigned to Stewart Air Force Base fly target penetration missions against the air defense system. This is done in addition to, and in support of, the B-57 aircraft of the 4713 Defense System Evaluation Squadron also assigned to Stewart.

Senator CANNON. You may proceed.

SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE, N.Y.

Colonel FENLON. The next base is on page 41, Suffolk County Air Force Base, located 60 miles east of New York City, N.Y. This base is used for an Air Defense Command fighter-interceptor squadron. The program requested for this base amounts to $294,000. The first project is for a 3,772 square-foot addition to the fire station to provide adequate space to house the major pieces of firefighting equipment. The existing facility cannot house all of the equipment required for protection.

The last project provides for a 7,600 square-foot replacement for the existing inadequate and substandard World War II buildings now used as a commissary.

Senator CANNON. How many commissaries do you have as recurring items in this program?

General CURTIN. We had three last year. I will see how many we have this year. Eleven as recurring items this year, sir.

Senator CANNON. Is there any local support immediately adjacent to this installation?

Colonel FENLON. The closest community I believe, Senator Cannon, is a place called River Road out on Long Island. That is some 6 miles.

Senator CANNON. You indicate that your end strength is going to be about 400 lower than it is now. I am wondering whether or not this commissary is something that is really needed.

General CURTIN. I visited out there, and I have not surveyed the whole community, but I have talked to the commander out here. This has been a requirement for some time, Senator, and my impression is that while this community is 6 miles away, the area is rather sparsely populated.

Senator CANNON. Is this the first time you have had a request in for this item?

General CURTIN. No, it is not.

Senator CANNON. All right, you may proceed.

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FLA.

Colonel FENLON. Next base is on page 44, Tyndall Air Force Base, located 7 miles southeast of Panama City, Fla., used for an Air Defense Command air division headquarters, a weapons test squadron, a radar squadron, an interceptor weapons school, a drone squadron, an Air Defense wing, a combat crew training school, and an aircraft control school.

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The program requested amounts to $2,991,000. The first project provides 2,400 square feet of additional space for operation and maintenance of base communication facilities.

The next project provides an addition of 5,120 square feet to the fire station to replace an unsuitable facility. The next project provides necessary air conditioning to the field training facility.

The fourth project provides 61,305 square feet of adequate warehouse space to replace tar paper covered World War II type buildings. The fifth project upgrades 1,968 airmen dormitory spaces to provide adequate quarters from the existing substandard barracks.

The last project provides necessary air conditioning for 100 officers quarters.

Senator CANNON. Is that not a rather high cost, over $1,000 per man to air condition?

General CURTIN. This cost to air condition? Which project are you looking at?

Senator CANNON. I am referring to the last, air conditioning for officers quarters, 50 unit, officers quarters which you propose to air condition for $67,000. It would seem you could buy each man an

air conditioner for less than that.

General CURTIN. In this project we have 50 tons of air conditioning rather than 50 men involved. I think the answer here is attributable to this. There are 10 men in each building, and there are 10 buildings involved.

Senator CANNON. Ten men in each building and ten buildings involved? How does that account for the 50?

General CURTIN. There is 50 tons of air conditioning.

Senator CANNON. In other words, this supplies 100 officers then? General CURTIN. That is correct, sir.

Senator CANNON. All right, sir.

Colonel FENLON. The next base is on page 52.

Senator INOUYE. I have noted in your presentation so far that there is not a single item on medical facilities. Am I correct in assuming that all your medical facilities are out?

General CURTIN. No, sir. We have some $25 million or $26 million of medical facilities in this year's program including two new hospitals and several additions to existing hospitals plus dispensaries and dental clinics. They will be further on in the presentation.

It just so happens we have not encountered any up until now. As a general observation, our major hospital program is coming down the last leg here, but we do have out in front of us a considerable amount of work for additions to existing hospitals by changed requirements as well as improvements in dispensaries and dental clinics. Senator INOUYE. I am glad to hear that, because every so often we receive letters complaining about medical facilities.

Thank you very much.

General CURTIN. Yes, sir.

Senator CANNON. You may proceed.

AIR FORCE ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE CENTER, COLO.

Colonel FENLON. Page 52, Mr. Chairman, the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center located in Denver, Colo. Their mission is to provide technical supervision, advice, and guidance to all Air Force activi

ties concerned with accounting for resources and dispersing of funds. The Center also performs centralized Air Force accounting and dispersing operations. This program consists of two items for $225,000 at this Center.

The first item is for our plant data processing addition. This addition is necessary in connection with the program for central maintenance and control of pay accounts for all Air Force personnel.

The second item is for an emergency power plant to provide for uninterrupted power to the communications area supporting the Center.

Senator CANNON. All right, sir.

AIR FORCE LOGISTICS COMMAND

GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE, N.Y.

Colonel FENLON. Next we are starting with the Air Force Logistics Command, sir.

The first base is on page 56, Griffiss Air Force Base, located 1 mile southeast of Rome, N.Y. This base supports the Rome Air Development Center and Air Defense Command fighter-interceptor squadron, a SAC bomber and tanker mission, and the headquarters for the Ground Electronics Engineering and Installation Agency.

The program requested at this installation amounts to $1,890,000. Included in this program is $282,000 to support the basic requirements for this base. $1,608,000 is included for an item for the Air Force Systems Command.

The first item is for 1,500 feet of approach lights required to improve flying safety for aircraft utilizing Griffiss Air Force Base. Only overrun lights and threshold lights exist at this end of the runway at the present time.

The last item is for conversion of 80,500 square feet of existing space for an electronic research laboratory required for research and development work in display technology for military command and control systems. This work is currently impeded by the severe limitations of existing inadequate temporary frame structures of World War II vintage.

Senator CANNON. Would you give us a little more detail on just what this laboratory is for?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir. I would like to call on Colonel Thomp

son.

Colonel THOMPSON. Colonel Thompson from research and develop

ment.

Sir, this laboratory is an effort devoted to the improvement of the Command and Control Communications System of the Air Force. The problem we have here is that our progress in communications and data reduction has surpassed our progress in displaying this integrated data once we have received it.

Our people at Griffiss have been doing this work for some time. However, they have a need now to integrate this data and to work with larger display systems, systems up to 25 feet square. At the present time, most of the effort is being done in old small structures at Griffiss, and since the phaseout of the air materiel effort there, a large high-bay warehouse has become available, a high bay of some

25 feet.

For about half the cost of a new lab we can convert this and provide a place to conduct our display technology work.

Senator CANNON. In other words, this is not a new program that you propose to undertake at all.

Colonel THOMPSON. It is not a new program, sir.

Senator CANNON. And do you propose to increase your personnel insofar as this program is concerned?

Colonel THOMPSON. The personnel, sir, will be about the same. However, there will be a little more emphasis on the in-house work as compared to contract. We contract about $8 million worth of this effort at the present time. However, many of the contractors do not have-well, none of the contractors have facilities of this type. They would have to be provided to a contractor by the Government.

Secondly, they are not too much interested in display technology in this phase; that is, the basic research and the fundamental development of the display systems. Once we decide what we have to have and are prepared to integrate it into a specific system, then they are ready to talk to us. And, of course, secondly we need a place to evalu

ate our contracts.

That is what would go in here.

Senator CANNON. Your personnel strength indicates you are going to have a loss of about 1,500 people; where do these losses occur?

General CURTIN. They are primarily associated with the phaseout of the depot there, Senator, and I might point out in amplification to the statement on the new facility, that last year this facility was considered for a new construction item at about $3 million. However, it was decided to defer it until this year with depot warehousing becoming available, to see if we could adapt one of them more cheaply to this purpose. This reduced $1.6 million project was the result

of that.

Senator CANNON. And this work is not being performed elsewhere in the Air Force system at all?

Colonel THOMPSON. No, sir, it is not. This is the only place we do it.

Senator CANNON. Very well. You may proceed.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UTAH

Colonel FENLON. The next base is Hill Air Force Base, page 59. It is located 7 miles south of Ogden, Utah. The mission of Hill Air Force Base is support for the headquarters of the Ogden Air Materiel Area and depot support for MINUTEMAN, a Reserve unit, Hill Air Force Range, and an Air Defense Command defense system evaluations squadron.

The program requested for this installation amounts to $6,644,000 for 14 items.

Included in this program is $2,917,000 for items to support the basic requirements for this depot, $3,609,000 is for items required to support additional personnel and functions being assigned to this base, and $118,000 is for the air defense mission.

The first item provides for construction of two noise suppression facilities for operational ground testing of engines on the F-4C or the F-4, and the F-101 aircraft. No other existing facilities at this base are capable of accommodating these aircraft.