and provide requested service. Existing main exchange is housed in toxic warehouse and plants area, 40 feet from white phosphorous production plant, creating hazard to personnel and equipment. Siting of proposed facility outside manufacturing area eliminates this hazard and geographically centralizes cable distribution. Senator STENNIS. What is the Signal building? Does that have to do with flight? General SEEMAN. No, that Signal building's for the telephone exchange to bring together and provide for an increased capability in their telephone service. They are now working in four scattered buildings, some of which were built in 1918, from a mile and a half or farther apart. Senator STENNIS. Next item? General SEEMAN. The second line item is for a 450-seat chapel at an estimated cost of $413,000. This project is required to provide permanent type religious facilities of sufficient size to accommodate assigned personnel and their dependents. Existing facilities consist of a semipermanent type, 250seat chapel only, to accommodate the average 650 Sunday attendance; to meet this situation, it is necessary to hold one Protestant service and three Catholic masses, one of the masses being conducted in the post theater while chapel is being used for Protestant service. There are no existing religious educational facilities, constructed as such, to accommodate the Sunday School services, which have an average attendance of 300, with the result that both these services, and the church social functions are now being held in a separate mobilization type building. Expansion of the existing chapel is not considered feasible since it is not a permanent structure. Both existing facilities will be demolished upon completion of proposed project. FORT DETRICK, MD. The next installation is Fort Detrick, Md. Its mission is research and development in all phases of biological warfare. Only one line item is being requested here, a biomathematical science building for $334,000. This is to provide expansion of an existing function to provide adequate support to the above-mentioned mission. Advanced design electronic computer equipment is on order and scheduled for delivery to Fort Detrick in February 1960. Existing equipment provides mathematical support to approximately 50 percent of current research tasks in biological warfare R. & D. program. This equipment is used in design of biological warfare experiments by which the greatest possible yield of reliable data may be gained, and to analyze and evaluate that data. Existing equipment and personnel performing the function are occupying space in an overcrowded laboratory which also houses Physical Sciences Division, Chemistry Branch, Biophysical Research Branch, and Pathology Division. While the Wathematics Division operates in direct support of all biological w those with which laboratory space: cilitate the pro posed facility R. & D. activities at this station, including housed, it should not occupy this premium other space available to faical support. This proice to accommodate the equipment, operators, programers, and scientific and engineering personnel engaged in this activity. Experience has proven that it is not feasible to perform this direct support service away from the R. & D. functions which it supports. Senator STENNIS. That must be a large installation you have up there, $67 million. All right, next item? DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, UTAH General SEEMAN. The next installation is Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. The mission here is the large scale field testing and evaluation of items developed by the Chemical Corps in the field of chemical, biological, and radiological warfare; research and development in micrometeorology for the U.S. Army. Only one line item is being requested, namely, an addition to NCO open mess for $87,000. Due to the isolation of Dugway Proving Ground (approximately 90 miles from Salt Lake City), the requirements for NCO open mess are substantially greater than those provided under Army regulations. In addition to the top three grades of NCO's, the lower grade married NCO's and civilian employees residing on post are afforded membership. Current membership is 354 (280 military and 74 civilians). This open mess provides the only facility of its kind for recreational and social gatherings for the NCO's and many of the civilian employees. Part of a plywood prefab (412 square feet) has been set adjacent to the existing building for unheated storage space. This added structure is unsightly and does not conform to fire regulations. This prefab is scheduled for disposal upon provision of the proper addition. Every effort is made to provide adequate facilities at this isolated station for the activities contributing to maintenance of high morale of both military and civilian personnel. Senator STENNIS. This is far out in the country. SIGNAL CORPS General SEEMAN. We will now go on to the Signal Corps. FORT HUACHUCA, ARIZ. The first installation is Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The mission here is to perform technical and engineering tests and evaluation of communication and and electronic systems and equipment. Three line items are being requested for this station with a total of $415,000 and in addition 100 units of Capehart family quarters. The first line item is for two environmental test buildings in the amount of $204,000. These buildings will support a relatively new R. & D. project and will serve as a nerve center for 79 mobile units in support and service. The item requested is one of the basic needs for U.S. Army electronic environmental test facility. These buildings are required for testing and limited maintenance of electronic instrumentation equipment. They will also be utilized for receipt, storage, and issue of re 54781-60- -10 quired spare parts, hardware, and auxiliary equipment used in the instrumentation or measuring system for the entire test facility. Additionally, these facilities will be a base of operations for the projected 79 van-type mobile instrumentation units and 1 mobile maintenance van needed to support the measuring equipment installed in the field as a part of the test facility field operations or range. The U.S. Army electronic environmental facility, in providing for the equivalent configuration of an Army corps, will necessarily extend over an appreciable geographical area in the vicinity of Fort Huachuca, Ariz.“ The current approved planning through fiscal year 1961 provides for 5 major measuring sites plus 79 mobile measuring units which will be constructed into large mobile vans. Equipment for this phase of the test facility will have a value of approximately $20 million. Equipment requirements will necessarily increase beyond fiscal year 1961 as the test facilities is expanded to accommodate a full-type Field Army. Since this facility is relatively new no construction has been programed previously in support and there are no existing buildings that could be used or modified for use by this facility. The next line item is a test chamber building for $127,000. This building will be utilized to house commercial standard altitude, temperature, and humidity chambers. The test chambers are used to test electronic equipment and to study man-machine relationships while operating under the simulated environment of various altitudes, temperature, and relative humidities. It is necessary to have a building in which the chambers can be installed with the ancillary equipment and control panels. It is also required to have sufficient work space in the building where the equipment can be brought in and prepared for placing in the test chambers. The tests cannot be conducted at present under controlled conditions. At present altitude tests have to be run by installing the equipment in a plane and operating it during flight at various altitudes. Temperature and humidity tests cannot be conducted except within the limits afforded by the climatic conditions in this area. These conditions are not controllable and have severe limitations. Test flights have averaged $9,986 for each test with approximately 36 tests per year in the Electronic Warfare Division program. It is estimated that the chamber tests will cost $1,000 for each test. Facility will also be used by departments other than Electronic Warfare Division. Savings in operation under present conditions will exceed the cost of instruction by $287,000 in a single year. This does not include cost of maintenance of building or equipment. No existing facilities are available that could be used for this purpose. The third line item is for expansion of water distribution system at a cost of $84,000. This consists of a deep-well pump with capacity of 750 gallons per minute, a surge tank, and necessary connection to the post water system. The peak demand for the post was during the month of May 1959, at 3,460,000 gallons per day. Since this date, 275 units of Capehart areas (irrigation peak for this ye per day with r Further, const: requiring irrigat and approximately 20 acres of lawn d to the post system. The expected load will be 3,690,000 gallons for irrigation purposes. 30 acres of lawn area 1960. This will again increase the water consumption to approximately 3,940,000 gallons per day. The total capacity of the wells, now in operation, is 3,220,000 gallons for a 16-hour day. A comparison of the figures indicate that a shortage in well capacity of 430,000 gallons per day will exist this year with increasing shortage as the installation expands. The pumping of wells in excess of 16 hours per day is poor practice and not recommended by Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. This shortage can be corrected by placing well No. 6 in operation. This well has been tested by the U.S. Geological Survey in excess of 1,000 gallons per minute and is now cased and capped. The next is the Signal Corps on page 83, sir, 2 stations, 2 major stations of the Signal Corps. Senator STENNIS. Isolated locations? General SEEMAN. It is very remote, sir. Fort Huachuca as you know was selected as an area where the electronic interference would be at a minimum, the intereference with airways would be a minimum, and this is a tremendous problem in our modern electronics and surveillance. Senator STENNIS. Now taking that as an illustration, it would not be much trouble for you to particularize on that 100 family quarters. How many of those are you going to build for enlisted men, how many for your junior officers, how many for your senior officers? You know what you are going to have there, your units? General SEEMAN. We have this on page 84, sir, there is at present 671 officers and 5,611 enlisted men. Senator STENNIS. It would not be much trouble for you to particularize that; would it? General SEEMAN. We will give for the record what our present knowledge of the planning is, sir. Senator STENNIS. We want you to put down of that 100 how many you are going to give the enlisted men. I don't mean at this minute, but with your list that comes in. General SEEMAN. That's right, sir. Colonel MCCARTY. It would be 98 for enlisted men and 2 for company grade officers. Senator STENNIS. That shows how easy it is going to be to make all that list that Senator Case wants. General SEEMAN. The next item is Fort Monmouth, on page 92. There are four items. FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. The principal mission is research and development in fields of communications, meteorological, photographic, and related ground and air signal equipment and the training Signal Corps personnel. Four line items are being requested for this station totalling $8,803,000. The first line item is for the final increment of the Signal Research and Development Laboratory in the amount of $7,171,000. This project will provide the laboratory space required to meet the new requirements of the missile and space research and development program; the (ARPA) Advanced Research Project Agency research and development program; the (NASA) National Aeronautics Space Agency research and development program; and the microminiaturization program utilizing micromodule techniques. This project will also provide the capability for meeting the increased requirements for research and development of combat surveillance drones, computers and automatic data processing equipment; aviation electronics, reconnaissance and surveillance drones, digital communications, airborne radar, infrared, photographic, television, and radiological detection devices and tactical operations centers, which have increased beyond the capabilities of the existing facilities. A compelling military requirement exists for the completion of this special research and development facility which can be provided only by this new construction. The dollar value of research and development has increased 240 percent during the past 8 years and this trend will continue. Maximum utilization of existing usable facilities will be continued. Continued maximum use will be made of private facilities by contracts. Present facilities are temporary mobilization-type structures built in 1942 and have outlived their life expectancy. These buildings were not designed to accommodate R. & D. type operations and are unsuitable for the installation of modern R. & D. laboratory equipment now required because of advances in a state of the art and the advances in space technology, in which this laboratory is required to participate. Maintenance and renewal costs to correct these buildings to accommodate modern R. & D. requirements is prohibitive. These can only be maintained on an increasing cost basis. The permanent-type buildings (234,000 square feet) at Evans area are one-story structures not designed to accept modern R. & D. laboratory equipment. These buildings require constant, impractical, and costly modifications to accommodate the requirements for a modern R. & D. laboratory. These "shell-type structures" are not sufficiently flexible to accept the changing requirements of the day-to-day requirements of a modern R. & D. laboratory. No provisions have been made or can be made without excessive costs to provide flexibility in heavy power requirements, interconnections between laboratory equipment and such utilities as gas, compressed air, and water. In some areas these laboratories require as many as seven to nine different types of gases for their work. The laboratory will retain 114,000 square feet of these permanent shell-type structures that have been adapted to accommodate certain specific phases of the R. & D. mission, i.e., nucleonics including radiation experiments, Diana radar experiments, etc. The second line item is for a climatic test chamber (R. & D.) at $550,000. A reinforced concrete structure is needed to house a climatic chamber, equipment room, and staging area in order to conduct comprehensive tests of equipment under similated and actual environmental conditions. Climatic test requirements are only partially being fulfilled by utilizing a semipermanent environmental chamber built adjacent to the former Squire I matic testing requir on temperature ra Failure of late. the facility to be the desired temp tory. It falls short of meeting full cliof present research because of restrictions ditions which it can simuleterioration has caused Repairs do not provide prove the reliability |