Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Yar 1989--H.R. 4264 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs: Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session : Title I--Procurement of Aircraft, Missiles, Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Ammunition, and Other Procurement : Hearings Held March 9, 10, 15, 16, and 17, 1988 |
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Page 378 - We are deeply committed to our modernization efforts. We feel this is essential and cite two reasons for this belief: First, a strong, well trained and modern conventional force will reduce the necessity for escalation to nuclear weapons by our side. As long as our conventional forces are capable of deterring the Soviets we will not quickly be forced to resort to nuclear weapons. Second, should tactical nuclear weapons be reduced or eliminated from the battlefield, the remaining conventional defenses...
Page 223 - They have done an excellent job, and we appreciate it. [Whereupon, at 4:25 pm, the subcommittee was recessed, to reconvene at 10 am, Thursday, March 10, 1988.] (The following questions were submitted for the record by Representative Albert G. Bustamante, a Representative from Texas, and were answered by Dr. Thomas J. Welch, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) (Chemical Matters):] BIGEYE BOMB Mr.
Page 380 - NT. the manpower and personnel integration program. This program seeks to integrate the full range of human factors engineering, manpower, personnel, training, health hazard assessment, and system safety to improve soldier performance and total system performance throughout the entire materiel development and acquisition process.
Page 375 - Director of Weapons Systems in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research and Development.
Page 385 - During periods of hostilities, the soldier may also be incapacitated or perform at reduced effi ciency due to the effects of chemical and nuclear weapons. In support of the soldier on the modern battlefield, new techniques in disease prevention, self-treatment, patient management, resuscitation, and decontamination have been and are being developed. A vital signs monitor and an individual soldier resuscitator have transitioned to concept exploration. A critical finding which will be instrumental...
Page 379 - Deep operations will isolate the current close operation from enemy reinforcements so that our qualitative edge in training and equipment can defeat the Soviet's quantitative edge Deep operations are designed to shape the conditions in which future close operations will be conducted Deep operations are normally conducted at the corps level of command and above.
Page 416 - Other new developments include FUR optical improvement, and a collective Nuclear, Biological and Chemical protection system. The Army National Guard will be equipped with Chaparral fire units for four battalions by FY89.
Page 373 - We will continue stressing the procurement of off-the-shelf "non-developmental" systems to insure a reduction in equipment fielding times and savings in development costs. The following introduction provides a brief overview of the research, development and acquisition objectives and ongoing efforts to meet these objectives. The weapons systems and other equipment are arranged to correspond to...
Page 420 - The positive hostile identification effort continues full scale development, integration and testing in FY88 for an FY89 low rate initial production start for selected weapon applications.
Page 379 - US and allied forces by synchronizing all available combat means to attain that end. Airland Battle doctrine is rooted in time-tested theories and principles, yet forward-looking and adaptable to changing technologies, threats, and missions. It emphasizes securing the initiative and exploiting it vigorously to defeat the enemy forces. This is achieved by throwing the enemy off balance with powerful initial blows from unexpected directions and then following up rapidly to prevent his recovery . To...