These projects have been developed in consonance with military construction criteria, are phased to equipment delivery dates, timed to operational requirements, and are designed to meet approved program objectives as follows:

(a) A project in northeastern Maine is designed to provide extended communications coverage in the North Atlantic, and in particular, to provide reliable communications to submerged submarines. (b) Three items overseas provide improved communications required by a classified project.

Admiral AILES This is class 9 of our items for communication facilities. Included in this group are 1 continental project and 3 overseas projects in the total amount of $40,572,000.

The purpose of this class of facilities is to provide reliable, secure, and rapid communication primarily for control of the operating forces, and, secondarily, to facilitate administration of the Naval Establishment.

The continental project is for construction of 4 line items at the naval radio station, Washington County, Maine, in the amount of $38,654,000.

The mission of this station is to provide very low frequency transmitting facilities to support the operation of submarine and surface forces and special communication functions in the North Atlantic and Arctic areas.

Construction of the 4 line items in this project is being programed in phase with the overall development plans for the station.

The first line item is for the fuel facility at the estimated cost of $887,000. This is essential for operation of the diesel powerplant which will supply electrical power, light, and heat to the station. This item will provide for construction of a fuel-handling pier for tanker docking; underground tanks of 11,300-barrel capacity for storage of the diesel fuel oil, and the associated pipelines.

The next item will provide for construction of antenna facilities at the estimated cost of $21,664,000. It will consist of the aboveground antenna, the buried ground system, and 2 helix houses, each having 10,000 square feet of floor area.

The antennas will consist of 2 radial systems each 4,725 feet wide and 6,060 feet long, supported on 13 towers varying in height from nearly 800 to 1,000 feet. The system will include provision for de-icing.

The third line item will provide for construction of utilities and ground improvements at the estimated cost of $13,475,000. The nature of this station required that it be isolated; consequently, it must be self-supporting with respect to all its utilities.

This item will provide the second increment in the phased development of the utilities, including site improvement and final grading in the antenna and administrative areas, underground power distribution, water and sewerage systems, roads, and drainage.

The last item in this project is for electric power facilities at the estimated cost of $2,628,000. This is for the second and final increment for construction of the station powerplant.

The first increment was authorized last year in the amount of $2,417,000. The powerplant, 20,000 square feet of floor area, will house 7 standard 1,250-kilowatt diesel generators and the related equipment.

This plant will be the most essential and basic utility of the station, since it will generate the power, heat, and light needed for all facilities of the station.

Mr. KILDAY. I notice this is a large project, and we will have to adjourn shortly after 11:45, so we might as well stop here.

When does the chairman want to meet?

Mr. KELLEHER. On Monday at 9 o'clock.

Mr. NORBLAD. If you want to contact me about Andrews Field, I will be in my office all afternoon.

Mr. KILDAY. The committee is adjourned until 9 o'clock Monday morning.

(Whereupon, at 11:45 a. m., the committee adjourned to reconvene at 9 a. m., Monday, June 2, 1958.)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D. C., Monday, June 2, 1958.

The committee met at 9:15 a. m., Hon. Carl Vinson, chairman, presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. Let the committee come to order.

This is a continuation of the hearing on H. R. 12360, the public works bill.

I want to thank Mr. Kilday and the other members of the committee for the hearing they carried on last Thursday. I see from the bill that they made considerable progress. It was most constructive. Now, I find that we are down at page

Mr. KELLEHER. Page 21.

The CHAIRMAN. 21 of the bill. "Communication facilities, naval radio station, Washington County, Maine: Operational and training facilities, and utilities and ground improvements, $38,654,000." Now, where is that item in this book, Mr. Kelleher?

Mr. KELLEHER. Page 52, Mr. Chairman.

The CHAIRMAN. 52?

Mr. KELLEHER. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Now, Admiral Ailes, what statement have you to submit to the committee in regard to this item?

Admiral AILES. Mr. Chairman, as we completed Thursday, the chairman had just inserted Captain Dorsey's, the Director of Naval Communications

The CHAIRMAN. I can't hear you, sir.

Admiral AILES. As we completed the session on Thursday, the chairman had agreed to insert in the record Captain Dorsey's statement. Captain Dorsey is Director of Naval Communications, sir. Then we were to go on with the detail of this item, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. All right, put Captain Dorsey's statement in the record.

Now, this is communication facility, naval radio station, Washington County, Maine?

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Fuel facilities, $887,000; very low frequency antennas, $21 million; utilities and ground improvement, $13 million; electric power facilities, $2,628,000; making a total of $38,654,000.

Admiral AILES. This is class 9 of our items for communication facilities. Included in this group are 1 continental project and 3 overseas projects in the total amount of $40,572,000.

The purpose of this class of facilities is to provide reliable, secure, and rapid communication primarily for control of the operating forces, and secondarily to facilitate administration of the Naval Establishment.

The continental project is for construction of four line items at the Naval Radio Station, Washington County, Maine, in the amount of $38,654,000.

The mission of this station is to provide very low frequency transmitting facilities to support the operation of submarine and surface forces and special communication functions in the North Atlantic and Arctic areas.

Construction of the four line items in this project is being programed in phase with the overall development plans for the station. The first line item is for the fuel facility at the estimated cost of $887,000. This is essential for operation of the diesel powerplant which will supply electrical power, light, and heat to the station. This item will provide for construction of a fuel handling pier for tanker docking; underground tanks of 11,300 barrels capacity for storage of the diesel fuel oil, and the associated pipelines.

The next item will provide for construction of antenna facilities at the estimated cost of $21,664,000. It will consist of the aboveground antenna, the buried ground system and 2 Helix houses, each having 10,000 square feet of floor area.

The antennas will consist of 2 radial systems each 4,725 feet wide and 6,060 feet long, supported on 13 towers varying in height from nearly 800 to 1,000 feet. The system will include provision for deicing.

The third line item will provide for construction of utilities and ground improvements at the estimated cost of $13,475,000. The nature of this station required that it be isolated, consequently, it must be self-supporting with respect to all its utilities.

This item will provide the second increment in the phased development of the utilities, including site improvement and final grading in the antenna and adminstrative areas, underground power distribution, water and sewerage systems, roads, and drainage.

The last item in this project is for electric power facilities at the estimated cost of $2,628,000. This is for the second and final increment for construction of the station powerplant.

The first increment was authorized last year in the amount of $2,417,000. The powerplant, 20,000 square feet in floor area, will house 7 standard 1,250-kilowatt diesel generators and the related equipment.

This plant will be the most essential and basic utility of the station, since it will generate the power, heat, and light needed for all facilities of the station.

The CHAIRMAN. How much on that item did you have unfunded from last year?

Admiral AILES. Nothing, sir.

Mr. KELLEHER. Nothing.

The CHAIRMAN. How high do these items stand in your priority?

Admiral AILES. This is right at the top of our priority, sir. This is grouped with our Polaris project, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Then you intend

Admiral AILES. It supports the Polaris program, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Then you intend to ask the Appropriations Committee for the money?

Admiral AILES. Every bit of it, yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. This is No. 1 in your priority?

Admiral AILES. In this first group of top priority projects in our funding list, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. How have you broken down your priorities? In different groups?

Admiral AILES. To meet our program, in the overall the top ones are related to certain programs, yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. All right.

Can you break down for the committee and show your priorities in the different-I imagine you have it: 1, 2, 3, and 4-show what you have in this bill that you put in No. 1, what you put in No. 2, what you put in No. 3, and what you put in No. 4?

Admiral AILES. We have a complete funding list, yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. You have?

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. That list

Admiral AILES. That list has been submitted to the Secretary of Defense and it is under consideration now in the Bureau of the Budget, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. How much of the one hundred and some odd million dollars of the billion dollars that you are asking from Congress, are you funding for the Navy?

Admiral AILES. We are asking for every item in this authorization bill, which is in our funding list.

The CHAIRMAN. Every item?

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Your item is three hundred-and-some-odd million dollars?

Admiral AILES. $301 million, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And how much is the Department of Defense asking the committee? I forget the figure.

What was it, Mr. Kelleher?

Admiral AILES. In our funding list, we are asking for four hundred

The CHAIRMAN. No.

Mr. Kelleher, what was the total amount asked of the Appropriations Committee?

Mr. KELLEHER. One billion six nine.

The CHAIRMAN. One billion six nine.

Mr. KELLEHER. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Now, out of one billion six nine, you have some three hundred and odd million dollars.

Admiral AILES. $301 million, yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And you are asking for that full amount?
Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And

Admiral AILES. Our funding list is $414 million. So it is made up of not only these projects but some old authorization that we are trying to clean up, sir, and get down to a current basis.

Mr. RIVERS. Could I ask him a question, Mr. Chairman?

The CHAIRMAN. Yes, sir.

Mr. RIVERS. If we should insert-Admiral Ailes, if we should insert money for the Polaris bases, which is a result of your additional money having been put in the appropriations bill for the Polaris submarines, are you going to ask for those bases?

Admiral AILES. It would be necessary for us to take something off the funding bill, unless we got additional dollars for that purpose, sir. Mr. RIVERS. You got the additional dollars. You got additional dollars for the submarines. And if we write in here a Polaris base, you will ask the Appropriations Committee for it?

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir, I believe we will.

Mr. RIVERS. You believe you will? You ought to know.

Admiral AILES. Well, it is a matter of going back to get additional dollars that we can add to the funding list once it is authorized, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Now, let me develop that.

I understand the Appropriations Committee has made available 6 more Polaris submarines-money for 6 more Polaris submarines; is that correct?

Admiral AILES. I think four more, sir.

Mr. KELLEHER. For a total of nine, Mr. Chairman.

Admiral AILES. A total of nine. We had 5, and they raised it to 9, as I understand it from the papers.

The CHAIRMAN. A total of nine?

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. How long will it be before those submarines will be brought in commission, how many years, these four? Three years? Mr. SMART. The Secretary of Defense has not agreed to construct them, Mr. Chairman.

The CHAIRMAN. What?

Mr. SMART. The Secretary of Defense has not agreed to construct the additional four.

The CHAIRMAN. Has not agreed to construct them?

Mr. SMART. No, sir. This is an excess over the request of the Department and no decision has been reached yet as to whether or not he would build them even though the funds are appropriated.

The CHAIRMAN. Now, wait 1 minute.

Then, he has agreed to build five?

Mr. SMART. Yes, sir.

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And five are being built?

Admiral AILES. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And when will they come into being?

(Off the record.)

Admiral AILES. It is about 2 or 3, possibly as many as 4-month intervals between boats, after that first one, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. All right.

What facilities have you for taking care of the five?

Admiral AILES. You mean in the way of building them, or