Sierra Ordnance Depot, California Mission: Receipt, storage, and issue of ordnance material and equipment. Project: 10 family quarters with utilities. Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. Mission: Artillery center and school. Cost: $660,000. Project: 38 family quarters and utilities and steel control tower at post field. Sioux Ordnance Depot, Nebraska Mission: Receipt, storage, and issue of ordnance supplies and equipment. Project: Six-family quarters with utilities. Tooele Ordnance Depot, Utah Mission: Receive, store, and issue combat and transport vehicles, renovation and demilitarization of ammunition, antiaircraft, and mobile artillery. Cost: $132,000. Project: Eight-family quarters with utilities. Two Rock Ranch Station, California Mission: Classified installation. Cost: $231,000. Project: Construction of 14 family quarters with utilities. Valley Forge General Hospital, Pennsylvania Mission: Army general hospital. Cost: $435,000. Project: 24 family quarters and attendant utilities; land acquisition; expansion of sewage pumping facilities. Vint Hill Farms, Virginia Mission: Classified installation. Cost: $759,000. Project: 46 family quarters with utilities. White Sands Proving Ground, Las Cruces, N. Mex. Mission: Development and test firing of guided missiles. Cost: $4,341,400. Project: For construction of 114 family quarters with utilities; bachelor quarters for 50 officers; barracks and utilities for 360 enlisted men; storehouses; extension of field instrumentation; automotive maintenance shop buildings; electrical power addition; fuel stations; improvement of airport facilities; meteorological station; ammunition storage magazines; utilities shops; extension of water supply distribution system; refrigerating and ice plant. Yuma Test Branch, Arizona Mission: Engineer research and development laboratories for military technical bridges, assault boats, and pontoons. Cost: $215,400. Project: Construction of 8 family quarters with utilities; enlisted barracks for 74 men; cold storage; ice plant and commissary. Armed forces special weapons project Project: Construction at classified installations. GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF ARMY PROJECTS OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED Alaskan theater STATES Mission: Survey of Valdez pipe line in interior of Alaska, purpose of which is to supply fuels and oils to the Alaskan interior. Cost: $315,000. Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska Mission: Providing of adequate petroleum supplies. Cost: $6,800,000. Project: Construction of petroleum storage facilities. Fort Richardson, Alaska Mission: Headquarters, United States Army. Alaska. Cost: $46,720,000. Project: Construction of 259 family quarters with utilities; three 20-man bachelor officer quarters; 9 enlisted barracks for 1,400 men; water supply line; design of 400-bed station hospital; outside utilities; 400,000 square feet warehouse; ordnance vehicle repair shop; central heating and power plant; petroleum terminal storage and dock: enlisted men's service club. Whittier, Alaska Mission: Head of passage canal off Prince William Sound; port of entry for troops and supplies for Army and Air Force. Cost: $12,645,700. Project: Construction of composite bachelor housing service and recreation for 832 enlisted men, 56 noncommissioned officers. and 13 officers: central heating and power plant; outside utilities. Okinawa (strategic locations throughout Army and Air Force areas) Mission: Protection of interests of the United States in far eastern areas. Cost: $1,439,000. Project: General depot facilities, water supply system, and roads Naha, Okinawa Mission: Operation of port and logistic facilities in support of forces in Ryukyus. Cost: $1,139,000. Project: LST basin and sewer construction. Sukiran, Okinawa Mission: Headquarters, Ryukyus and command and regimental post for ground troops assigned to defense of Okinawa. Cost: $11,305,000. Project: 198 family quarters; utilities and site preparation; signal and telephone system. Helemano, T. H. Mission: Operation of relay and receiver station. Project: Land acquisition, classified installation. St. Thomas, V. I. (various locations in the Virgin Islands) Mission: Research and development. In the geographical analysis of projects appearing below, the following information is listed with respect to each project: (1) Name and location of project. (2) Mission of project. (3) Amount of authorization. (4) Brief description of project. GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF NAVY PROJECTS INSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED Nava. Air Station, Alameda, Calif. STATES Mission: Station provides air support for fleet, overhaul and repair of aircraft. and aviation supply activities. Cost: $950,000. H. Repts., 81-1, vol. 5—57 Project: This project is to provide adequate overhaul facilities for turbo-jet engines; contemplates construction of a 180 by 380 feet building, including accessory construction and site preparation. Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia, D. C. Mission: Laboratory is to increase the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the fleet by the application of scientific research and laboratory experimentation to Navy problems. This is the only laboratory in the NME devoted primarily to fundamental research on a broad scale. Cost: $1,570,000. Project: This project will provide facilities for nuclear research and correction of deficiencies in existing sewerage, water, power, and heating facilities; this project provides for construction of a laboratory building 60 by 200 feet, 60-feet high, including accessories, and built for nuclear research, and for correction of deficiencies in existing sewerage and water systems, electric systems, and central heating plant. Naval Engineering Experiment Station, Annapolis, Md. Mission: This station conducts experiments and tests on engineering equipment and material and fuels and lubricants. Cost: $2,000,000. Project: Project provides facilities for development and test of new modes of submarine propulsion and includes construction of a propulsion-test building approximately 200 by 143 feet, three fuel-storage buildings, and fuel-handling and storage facilities. Naval Ammunition Depot, Bangor, Wash. Mission: This facility is required in order to provide a mine assembly facility on the west coast. Cost: $1,000,000. Project: This project includes construction of an 80 by 128 foot mine assembly building, a mine workshop, storage buildings, and a steam plant. Naval Training School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Mission: The institute, by contract, is assigned the responsibility for research and development program embracing all activities necessary for the development of one or more types of antiaircraft guided missiles. Cost: $682,000. Project: This project contemplates construction of a combustion facility consisting of a permanent fireproof building with necessary soundproofing attached to a supersonic laboratory, and four test cells for jet engine tests, and necessary services and equipment. David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Md. Mission: This station conducts tests and research in the fields of hydromechanics and acoustics, aeromechanics, structural mechanics, and physics for best shapes and construction of hulls; experimentation in propulsion machinery; wind-tunnel research and broad aeronautical studies. Cost: $2,344,000. Project: The project contemplates (1) alterations in the 24-inch water tunnel, (2) a laboratory, wind-tunnel structure and accessories to contemplate erection of facilities for former German 3-meter high-speed wind tunnel previously authorized, and (3) design, development, and construction of a pilot model of a variablepressure free surface test facility toward construction of a full-scale facility. Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. Mission: This station provides for support of fleet marine air groups, class A overhaul and repair activities, including permanent preservation of aircraft and aviation supply activities. Cost: $1,765,500. Project: This project will provide 107 units of family quarters, including utilities. Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station, Chincoteague, Va. Mission: This station conducts development, assembly, ground and air test (including evaluation and modification tests) of aviation fire-control system, shortrange guided missiles, and aircraft missile launchers, guns, and associated components. Cost: $1,165,000. Project: This program proposes (1) construction of 10 units of family quarters with utilities, and (2) guided-missile ranges facilities. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Chincoteague, Va. Mission: The mission of this station is to provide for support of carrier air groups. Cost: $346,500. Project: Construction of 21 family quarters, including utilities. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va. Mission: This station conducts tests of ordnance material, including aviation ordnance, and undertakes applied research in, and development of, armor, ammunition, ammunition components, and ballistics. Cost: $410,000. Project: This project will provide a reinforced concrete building containing approximately 129,630 cubic feet, including services and utilities and collateral equipment. Naval Ordnance Aerophysics Laboratory, Daingerfield, Tex. Mission: This is the only place in the National Military Establishment equipped with an operational wind tunnel capable of work in the higher mach numbers. Cost: $864,500. Project: This program will provide for construction of (1) an additional working section for the existing wind tunnel, and (2) approximately 10,000 square feet of laboratory and office space, additional assembly and storage space, and necessary services and collateral equipment. Naval Ammunition Depot, Earle, N. J. Mission: To supplement the present mine facility on the east coast at Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, by a complete mine assembly facility in order to meet strategic requirements. Cost: $1,100,000. Project: The purpose of this project is to provide additional facilities on the east coast for the assembly of mines; it includes construction of an 80- by 128-foot mine assembly building, a mine workshop, inert storehouse, storage building, 125 h. p. steam plant, site preparation, and utilities. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill. Mission: This station provides basic indoctrination training for enlisted men upon their first entry into the naval service and primary training for technical and specialist ratings. Cost: $1,575,000. Project: Project proposes (1) construction of an addition to the main power plant, installation of a 50,000-pound-per-hour boiler and appurtenances, and (2) conversion of 7 existing barracks buildings into 168 units of family quarters. Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nev. Mission: This station provides storage, reworking, loading, preparation, storage, and issue of ammunition, including mines and war heads, and the storage, maintenance, overhauling, and issue of torpedoes. Cost: $320,000. Project: Project proposes construction of a large storage reservoir on Cat Creek, together with accessory construction, pipe lines, and acquisition of easements, water rights, and land on the watersheds of Cat, Dutch, and Cottonwood Creeks. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, Calif. Mission: This station conducts research, design, development, product engineering, test and technical evaluation of various types of ordnance, principally in the fields of rockets, guided missiles, and underwater ordnance. Cost: $10,992,000. Project: The program contemplates construction of (1) launching tower magazine and equipment for underwater test at Morris Dam; (2) test stand and equipment for static firing of liquid fuels; (3) an aerodynamics ballistic track range; (4) expansion of instrumentation and testing facilities of guided-missile range; (5) ballistic range facilities, including launching apparatus, towers, shop, and observation buildings; and (6) 111 units of family quarters, including utilities. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. Mission: Station provides support of carrier air groups; overhaul and repair activities, Air Reserve training. naval air technical training unit, and aviation supply activity. Cost: $4,920,000 Project: Project proposes construction of a pier, dredging and revetment, roads, taxiways, and collateral equipment and rehabilitation of existing facilities. Naval Fuel Storage Facility, Jacksonville, Fla. Mission: This facility is to provide reserve petroleum fuel storage in southeastern United States Cost: $3,175,000 Project: Project proposes the acquisition, rehabilitation, and expansion of the existing oil storage facility at Jacksonville, Fla., which has been made available by the Defense Plant Corporation for disposal. This terminal has an existing storage capacity of 270,000 barrels, plant, pumping facilities, two piers, and acces sories The expansion will provide an additional 150,000 barrels storage for Diesel oil and 424,000 barrels storage for aviation gasoline Naval Air Development Station, Johnsville, Pa. Mission: This station provides for development functions in the field of aircraft electronics, pilotless aircraft, and aviation armament. Cost: $5,253,500 Project: The project proposes (1) extension of the runway to 8,000-foot length with load-bearing capacity to support at least 100,000 pounds gross weight airplanes, (2) acquisition of land for runway approach zone, and (3) interior alterations to two existing buildings for laboratories and test facilities, including collateral equipment Naval Station, Key West, Fla. Mission: This station maintains and operates small base facilities to support training and experimental operations of Atlantic operations Cost: $739,000 Project: This project provides for dredging of approximately 340,000 cubic yards of material Naval Aeronautical Rocket Laboratory, Lake Denmark, N. J. Mission: This station provides for development and test of liquid fuel rocket engines and their components Cost $7,500,000 Project This project contemplates construction of facilities for research, development, and test of rocket engines, including 11 test stands, alterations to existing buildings at the naval ammunition depot to provide for new usage, construction of storage area. offices, and shops and installation of services and utilities and paving, and acquisition of land. Marine Barracks, Camp Lejeune. N C Mission: The marine barracks Camp Lejeune, is to provide housing and training facilities for specialist schools and for units of the fleet marine force stationed at that post, and to provide housing and training facilities for units of the Organized Marine Corps Reserve and for volunteer reservists during periods of active duty training Cost: $5,808,000 Project: This project contemplates construction of 352 units of family quarters. including utilities Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, N. C. Mission This station provides general clinical and hospitalization service for naval personnel and activities within the area. Cost $128,000. Project This project proposes the conversion of building No. H-32 into 16 apartments with utilities. Camp Lejeune. N C Mission See above Cost $3,000,000 Project: This project contemplates the construction of a railroad from Camp Lejeune to Cherry Point, N. C. |