Department of Defense Appropriations for 1961: Hearings ... 86th Congress, 2d Session, Parts 1-7 |
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Admiral BENNETT Admiral FELT Admiral HAYWARD Admiral PARKER agencies air defense Air Force aircraft airplane antisubmarine warfare appropriation Army ARPA ATLAS ballistic missile basic research biological warfare BMEWS BOMARC bomber budget capability Chairman CHARYK Chiefs of Staff Colonel Command committee contract cost Department of Defense Discussion effective effort electronic emergency fund equipment evaluation fallout field fiscal year 1961 FLOOD FORD FRIEDMAN going ICBM interceptor Joint Chiefs laboratories LAIRD launch LIPSCOMB MAHON ment military million MINSHALL MINUTEMAN Navy NIKE-ZEUS nuclear obligations Office operational OSTERTAG percent personnel POLARIS POWER present problem procurement projects question radar range record research and development rocket satellite Secretary of Defense SHEPPARD SIKES space statement Strategic Air Command submarine talking target technical things THOMSON tion TITAN transfer TRUDEAU U.S. ARMY VTOL WAGMIGHT warfare warhead weapon system YORK
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Page 60 - STAFF The JCS are the principal military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. They constitute the immediate military staff to the Secretary of Defense, serving in the chain of command that extends from the President to the Secretary of Defense, through the JCS, to the commands
Page 285 - also a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College. He earned his Ph. D. degree in physics from the Graduate School of Princeton University in 1951.
Page 53 - Engineering. The act provides in part that: "The Director performs such duties with respect to research and engineering as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe including, but not limited to, the following: (1) to be the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense on scientific and
Page 55 - research and engineering activities that the Secretary of Defense deems to require centralized management." [Italic supplied.] The Secretary of Defense in his directive referred to above has delegated to the Director the authority to disapprove a program "to eliminate * * * unnecessarily
Page 3 - is hereby established as an operating research and development agency "'. the Department of Defense under the direction and supervision of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. II. ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITY The Advanced Research Projects Agency will be separately organized within
Page 177 - authorized by law, shall be approved by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department, as appropriate, based on a finding that such committees, or the use of such committees, are in the public interest in connection with the
Page 53 - matters; (ii) to supervise all research and engineering activities in the Department of Defense; and (iii) to direct and control (including their assignment or reassignment) research and engineering activities that the Secretary of Defense deems to require centralized management." Pursuant to the above act, a new Department directive 5129.1, dated February 10. 1959. was issued, canceling the previous one of March 18, 1957, thereby
Page 401 - activity shall be started until the responsible official has made a formal finding for the record that, due to one of the compelling reasons stated in paragraph 3, Government provision of the product or service is in the public interest. Proposed starts should be subjected to the same review outlined in this
Page 127 - Each year, the service research and development programs are reviewed and balanced in an effort to assure that the funds provided cover only those projects considered to be of highest priority. New opportunities for R. & D. which arise later can sometimes be satisfied at the expense of other going projects, but it is not always in the
Page 53 - to coordinate actions as appropriate, with the military departments and other Department of Defense agencies having collateral or related functions in the field of his assigned responsibility." He is also authorized to 'approve, modify or disapprove programs and projects of the military departments and other Department of Defense agencies in his assigned fields to eliminate unpromising or unnecessarily duplicative programs, and initiate or