DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts DON MAGNUSON, Washington WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania WINFIELD K. DENTON, Indiana TOM STEED, Oklahoma HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, North Carolina JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusett H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York EARL WILSON, Indiana BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York FRANK T. BOW, Ohio HAMER H. BUDGE, Idaho CHARLES RAPER JONAS, North Carolina MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin KENNETH SPBANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director (11) JEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 19 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HON. REUBEN B. ROBERTSON, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY LT. GEN. JAMES M. GAVIN, CHIEF, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, MAJ. GEN. DWIGHT E. BEACH, DIRECTOR OF GUIDED MISSILES, BRIG. GEN. A. J. CASSEVANT, CHIEF OF PROCUREMENT DIVISION, MAJ. GEN. JOHN P. DALEY, DIRECTOR SPECIAL WEAPONS, OFFICE LT. COL. R. G. HILLMAN, USA, PROCUREMENT DIVISION, OFFICE OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY REAR ADM. JOHN E. CLARK, USN, DIRECTOR, GUIDED MISSILES REAR ADM. JAMES S. RUSSELL, USN, CHIEF, BUAERO REAR ADM. WILLIAM F. RABORN, USN, DIRECTOR, SPECIAL PROJ- REAR ADM. FREDRIC S. WITHINGTON, USN, CHIEF, BUREAU OF COL. ROBERT E. GALER, USMC, DIRECTOR OF GUIDED MISSILE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HON. DONALD A. QUARLES, SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE BRIG. GEN. CHARLES M. McCORKLE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF COL. ROBERT L. JOHNSTON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND STAFF STUDY ON THE MISSILE PROGRAM Mr. MAHON. The committee will come to order. Mr. Secretary, we are pleased to have you gentlemen before us here today. The missile program of the Department of Defense-the three services-is coming more and more into the defense picture from the standpoint of dollars and otherwise. We determined some time ago that we ought to have a general overall presentation of this program. We had a study made by some members of our staff of the missile program, and I believe the contents of the study have been made available to you, Mr. Secretary. Mr. ROBERTSON. Yes, indeed. Mr. SCRIVNER. Is that this big book we just saw for the first time today? Mr. MAHON. Yes. Some of these criticisms and observations may not be sound, and some of them no doubt are. I personally have felt there has been a lot of lost motion and wasted money in the missile program. I realize that some lack of coordination is inherent in this sort of situation. We are spending here billions of dollars. We wanted to interrogate you in regard to the whole program. I hope that the studies and questions we have raised have already borne some fruit. I do not know whether we had anything to do with it or not, but we do not care who gets the credit if we can save some money and improve our defense program and our missile program. I would like to say to you, Mr. Secretary, that we have had a presentation by the Army of the missile program, a presentation by the Navy of their missile program, and yesterday we had a hearing on the intercontinental ballistic missile program. We have not fully concluded that. We will pursue it further. I would like to know now just what procedure you would like to follow in presenting this matter to us. Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, first I would like to say it is a pleasure to have this opportunity to appear before you this year as I had the opportunity last year. I would also like to say, before I get into the substance of my presentation, that the study the staff representatives of your committee made we felt was a very constructive piece of work. We have analyzed it very carefully. We have all read certainly either all of it or the significant parts of it and taken into consideration and attempted to give it constructive analysis, agreeing with it where we felt the points raised were right and needed followup and attempting to point out those observations in which either further developments or adjustments were needed for clarification. If I may, I have a prepared statement to present. Mr. MAHON. I would like to say for the benefit of the committee this missile study which is before us is classified "Top secret." I instructed the staff to keep these "top secret" documents under lock and key in our safe. I have not taken one to my office, and I think we should be very careful about our disposition of these. Mr. SIKES. Off the record, Mr. Chairman. (Discussion off the record.) Mr. SCRIVNER. I will say I would have liked to see a copy of this before we had the missile presentation. This is the first time I have seen it, today. Mr. MAHON. I believe I referred to this missile study. Mr. SCRIVNER. This is the first time I have ever heard of this report. |