Mr. MAHON. We began our hearings on the defense appropriation bill with a brief session on February 16 with Secretary of Defense, Mr. McNamara, and with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Lemnitzer.

Since that time we have reviewed various programs and budget requests and listened to a tremendous amount of testimony. For the past week or so, we have been considering research and development. Research and development of course often leads to procurement, so now we have arrived at a consideration of the procurement provisions of the fiscal year 1962 defense budget.

The Army always comes first, so we welcome you, General Colglazier, before the committee with your associates here. How many years have you been before us, General? You were here

last year.

General COLGLAZIER. I was here last year in the capacity as Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics.

Mr. MAHON. You have been here in previous years?

General COLGLAZIER. In previous years I was here when I was the Deputy to General Magruder and to General Palmer.

Mr. MAHON. At least one member of the committee does not hold it against you because you are a Texan. We have had some good performances by fellow Texans this year before the committee. I could mention one, Mr. Connally, the Secretary of the Navy. I think he is going to make an outstanding Secretary.

You have a prepared statement. I wish you would proceed to tell us about your requirements.

General COLGLAZIER. I would be happy to. I hope the statement will bring into focus our requirements, and particularly our request for fiscal year 1962.

Mr. MAHON. As you know, there is a general feeling the Army is not sufficiently modern, and that adequate steps have not been taken during the past decade or so to modernize the Army. I think I could say that it is also felt by many people that your fiscal year 1962 program is deficient in some respects and if we are to really modernize the Army, we have to proceed with a greater degree of imagination and expedition.

General COLGLAZIER. I hope I can bring this problem into focus with my statement.

Mr. MAHON. Proceed.

STATEMENT OF DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

General COLGLAZIER. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am Lt. Gen R. W. Colglazier, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics of the Department of the Army. I welcome this opportunity to appear again before your committee to report on the Army's program for the "Procurement of equipment and missiles, Army" appropriation. Today, in presenting my opening statement for this appropriation, I shall discuss some of the vital aspects of the Army's Materiel Modernization Program.

I shall also highlight how the Army plans to improve its materiel readiness posture with the additional funds provided by the new administration.

The importance of weapons and equipment to combat operations is well known to this committee and you are familiar with the nature of the threat and the impact of our accelerating technology. Therefore, I shall address myself directly to our needs for materiel readiness.

The Army's statutory roles and missions, as well as national strategy, require that our forces be dual capable and therefore that they be equipped for nuclear as well as nonnuclear war. Dual capability relates to the forces and not necessarily to individual weapons systems. We must in fact be ready for any situation from cold war to nuclear

war.

In this connection, I should like to quote from a statement made by General Norstad at the NATO Parliamentarians Conference on November 21, 1960:

To accomplish our mission, I believe that we must be able to meet any act of aggression by a resisting effort which is adequate, but clearly we should not use more force than is necessary. We must be able to do this against any level of aggression up to conditions of general war. This requires a force balanced against the requirement, a force made up of Army, Navy, and Air Force elements of suitable types and equipped with a balance of conventional and nuclear weapons. Thus, I believe that our forces must have a substantial conventional capability. They must be able to operate where the military situation permits, without using arms and weapons equipped with nuclear warheads.

The Army, in preparation for the execution of its part in the role which was so clearly described by General Norstad, seeks to acquire in peacetime a modern inventory of weapons and equipment of sufficient quantity to equip its forces for prompt response to any form of conflict and to support them through the early stages of combat until production can replace losses. Our program to accomplish this is the Materiel Modernization Program. It is the basis for our budget request.

However, before I undertake any discussion of the fiscal year 1962 budget, I shall first give you a brief accounting of how we have utilized those funds provided by the Congress for the fiscal year 1961.

FISCAL YEAR 1961 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

The President's budget request for the "Procurement of equipment and missiles, Army" appropriation for fiscal year 1961 as forwarded to the Congress provided for a direct obligational program of $1.524 billion to be supported by $1.337 billion in new obligational authority. The Congress actually approved a program for obligation of $1.682 billion supported by $1.495 billion in new obligational authority or $158 million over and above that requested in the President's budget.

UTILIZATION OF CONGRESSIONAL ADD-ON

The Office, Secretary of Defense, has authorized apportionment of $113 million of this additional $158 million to the Army, raising our direct obligational funding level from $1.524 billion to $1.637 billion. The balance of $45 million of the $158 million provided by the Con

gress has been reserved by the Office of the Secretary of Defense as funding resources for fiscal year 1962.

Although the $113 million additional obligational authority appropriated by the Congress and apportioned to the Army for the fiscal year 1961 was administered with the total amount appropriated, I should like to emphasize to this committee the benefit derived from these additional funds.

FISCAL YEAR 1961 CONGRESSIONAL ADD-ON

These additional funds made it possible for the Army to increase the quantities of selected modern items in its basic budget procurement program. We have been able to add, among other things, additional quantities of the new M-14 rifle and its supporting ammunition; an additional quantity of the main battle tank and its associated ammunition; additional armored personnel carriers; additional shoulder fired grenade launchers; and HERCULES missiles.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITH PRIOR YEAR FUNDS

As a gage of our progress toward "material readiness" from fiscal year 1961 funds, the Army has been able to initiate or step up replacement of a number of items of equipment of World War II or prior vintage with new and vastly improved materiel. Examples of this form of modernization which the Army has been able to procure with the fiscal year 1961 Presidential budget of $1.524 billion are: New 7.62 millimeter M-14 rifles using the standard NATO ammunition; the versatile M-60 machinegun which fires the same NATO round; the new amphibious cargo lighter which replaces the World War II DUKW; in the missile field we have procured additional quantities of the LITTLE JOHN rocket which is to be used by our airborne forces, and the HAWK surface-to-air missiles.

Progress has been made toward obtaining greater air mobility in the combat zone. The short takeoff and landing CARIBOU is in production and with fiscal year 1961 funds we are procuring an additional quantity of this modern aircraft. This aircraft will afford greatly added troop mobility or medical evacuation through its ability to operate from small unimproved airfields within the battle zone. The heavy troop cargo or weapons transport CHINOOK helicopter is also in production. This helicopter has the capability of either carrying a fully equipped platoon or the PERSHING missile. The IROQUOIS utility helicopter, our medical air ambulance and high performance cargo or squad transport, is now being delivered to troops.

These are but a few representative items of the qualitative and quantitative advances which we have made. Admittedly, the items which I have just mentioned are only a small portion of the materiel shopping list, but they are representative of the care, the thoroughness, and effectiveness with which we have utilized the funds appropriated by the Congress in fiscal year 1961. In the interest of conserving your time, I shall now proceed to other areas in which you have shown a particular interest.