FISCAL YEAR 1973 AUTHORIZATION FOR MILI- HEARINGS BEFORE THE United States, Congo prate. 1 COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES. NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3108 TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR Part 6 of 6 parts Bomber Defense, Tactical Air Power, and F-14 74-696 O Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1972 AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON TACTICAL AIR POWER STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri STROM THURMOND, South Carolina CHARLES CROMWELL, Professional Staff Member (II) BOMBER DEFENSE FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1972 U.S. SENATE, AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON BOMBER DEFENSE Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 212, Old Senate Office Building, Hon. John C. Stennis (chairman). Present: Senators Stennis (presiding) and Dominick. Also present: Senator Symington. James T. Kendall, chief counsel; John T. Ticer, chief clerk, Committee on Armed Services; L. R. Garcia, Don C. Lynch and John A. Goldsmith, professional staff members. COMMITTEE PROCEDURE Senator STENNIS. I want to express on behalf of Senator Smith her very great regrets, gentlemen, that she could not be here. She had a matter before she knew about this meeting which she had confirmed. and set up and couldn't change, and then she is having to leave town. We are glad to have you here, gentlemen. We have covered your subject matter partly, you know. The Secretary of Defense has been here; Admiral Moorer has been here; the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force have been here, and others. I thought, however, that you were entitled to a special hearing to make a special presentation of any points you want to. We have already been briefed by the CIA and by Admiral Moorer and Secretary Laird on the threat. We have also gone over the substance of your program for this year. I am not going to limit you in time but we do have to have a general policy of getting into these things, not repeating too much and moving along. OPENING STATEMENT I have a very brief opening statement. The staff has done a lot of work on this and it is very brief. I will read part of it and put the rest of it in the record. This morning the Ad Hoc Bomber Defense Subcommittee will consider two Air Force programs: The Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) and the Over-The-Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) radar, and one Army program, the Surface-to-Air Missile Development known as SAM-D. AWACS is an airborne surveillance, command, control, and communication system intended for use both by Air Defense Command and the Tactical Air Command forces. (3351) SAM-Ds primary mission is for defense of the field Army, but it does have a secondary optional mission of continental air defense. The total cost of the program is now estimated at $5.2 billion, with $1.2 billion being for research and development. The fiscal year 1973 request is for $171.4 million in research and development funds. SAM-Ds estimated initial operational date is fiscal year [deleted]. I wanted those facts to appear in the record at the beginning of the hearing and without objection the rest of that statement, with the exhibit, will be put in the record at the point. (Opening statement and its exhibit (funding data chart) follow:) This morning the Ad Hoc Bomber Defense Subcommittee will consider two Air Force programs, the Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) and the over-the-horizon backscatter (OTH-B) radar, and one Army program, the surface-to-air missile development known as SAM-D. AWACS is an airborne surveillance, command, control and communication system intended for use both by Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command forces. The total cost estimate is about $2.7 billion, with approximately $880 million being for research and development. The fiscal year 1973 budget requests $160 million for research and development and $310 million for procurement. OTH-B is intended for continental U.S. installation and is designed to give early warning of the approach of enemy aircraft. The total program cost is estimated at about $128 million, with about $67 million being for research and development. The fiscal year 1973 request is for $4.4 million in research and development funds and $200,000 in military construction funds. SAM-D's primary mission is for defense of the field Army but it does have a secondary optional mission of continental air defense. The total cost of the program is now estimated at $5.2 billion, with $1.2 billion being for research and development. The fiscal year 1973 request is for $171.4 million in research and development funds. SAM-D's estimated initial operational date is fiscal year [deleted]. For the Air Force, Brig. Gen. Kendall Russell, AWACS program director, will be the principal AWACS witness, and Col. Donald Lambrecht, program director, will present the OTH-B radar program. We also have with us Lt. Gen. D. L. Crow, comptroller of the Air Force, and Lt. Gen. G. S. Boylan, Jr., deputy chief of staff, programs and resources. Lt. Col. E. S. Parchinski, the program monitor, will present SAM-D to us, and Brig. Gen. S. E. Salter, director of missiles and space, Office of Chief of Research and Development, will also be present. Senator STENNIS. Gentlemen, we are glad to have you, as I said. Who will be your first witness? |