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The major project in the unclassified section of the program is the $36,600,000 amendment needed to complete construction of the radio telescope at Sugar Grove, W. Va. The remaining unclassified projects will provide facilities required for the performance of current missions at existing activities.

We shall insert in the record pages 18, 19, 20, and 21. (The pages follow:)

Communication facilities inside the United States

Installation and line item

Naval Radio Station (T), Annapolis, Md., antennas (2d increment)... Naval Security Group Detachment, Charleston, S.C., registered publications issuing office.

Naval Radio Station (R), Cheltenham, Md., environmental control
for electronic equipment.

Naval Radio Station (T), Dixon, Calif., barracks with mess..
Naval Communication Station, Kodiak, Alaska, communication con-
trol cable.

Naval Radio Research Station, Sugar Grove, W. Va., large steerable

antenna.

Classified location (JA-1), radio direction finder facility.
Classified location (JH-1), radio direction finder facility.
Classified location (JM-1), radio direction finder facility.
Classified location (JN-1), radio direction finder facility.
Classified location (JW-1), radio direction finder facility.

Subtotal, communication facilities inside the United States:
Unclassified items...
Classified items....

Total...

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Communication facilities outside the United States

Installation and line item

Classified location (PF-1), radio direction finder facility.

Classified location (PG-1), radio direction finder facility (1st and 2d increment).

Classified location (PJ-1), expansion of receiving and direction finder
facilities.

Classißed location (PK-1), addition to direction finder building.
Classified location (PM-1), addition to direction finder building.
Classified location (PS-1), radio direction finder facility including ac-

quisition of land.

Classified location (PA-1), addition to direction finder building.
Classified location (SC-2):

Transmitter communication center
Multipurpose building....

Subtotal, communications facilities outside the United States

Total, communications facilities inside and outside the United
States:

Unclassified items.
Classified items...

Total.

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Admiral JOHNSON. The eighth of the nine facilities classes in this program is communication facilities. It consists of 20 line items at 19 locations for a total of $59,834,000, all items being included in this year's authorization program except a portion of a classified item which was authorized last year. These include, within the United States, six unclassified line items at six stations for $38,133,000 and five classified line items at five stations for $11,472,000. The remaining nine line items are classified and are at eight oversea locations for a total of $10,229,000. Our objective is to provide facilities for requisite communications for the command, operational control, and administration of the Naval Establishment afloat and ashore and to perform security functions.

NAVAL RADIO STATION, ANNAPOLIS, MD.

Mr. SHEPPARD. We shall now take up the item, Naval Radio Station, Annapolis, Md.

We shall insert page 177 in the record at this point.

The preliminary engineering report for this item was prepared by A. A. Semenoff, Washington, D.C., and is complete. Fee amount, $20,000.

The final plans and specifications are being prepared by A. A. Semenoff, Washington, D.C., and will be completed in December 1961. Fee is being negotiated.

(The following was submitted for the record :)

The first project, starting on page 177 of program book II, is at the Naval Radio Station, Annapolis, Md., for the second increment for modification of antennas at an estimated cost of $900,000. This is the transmitter station for the Naval Communication Station, Washington, D.C., which is the principal communication facility serving the Chief of Naval Operations, the Department of the Navy, and other major naval activities in this area. This line item will complete the modification of the high frequency antennas. The first increment was included in last year's military construction program. Modern fleet operations require high speed, high volume, reliable, and secure communication between ships and shore-based commands. Replacement of the remaining obsolete antennas is urgently required to correct chronic disruptions of vital communications.

Mr. SHEPPARD. Last year your justifications showed that you required only 22 additional antennas at this station, all of which were funded. Now you show a requirement for 24 in addition to this. Just what is the picture here?

Admiral VIRDEN. Last year when we appeared before this committee, the preliminary engineering report for the project had not been completed. The completed report indicated that the total deficiency was considerably greater than our request but because the 22 antennas requested originally could be completed as a usable increment of the overall we decided to postpone our request for the remainder of the work until this year.

In my testimony last year before the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, I informed Senator Stennis we would probably come back in for this $900,000 this year. The hearings before the House committee had already been concluded by that time, sir.

Mr. SHEPPARD. In the original premise, did you intend to have the total amount?

Admiral VIRDEN. No, sir. The preliminary engineering report was what spelled out the requirement for us. This is a very old field. It was built in about 1918. The requirements have come about in the meantime and have resulted in interim improvements to the field, with the result it has not been reengineered on a sound basis in all this time.

We did not understand, without the preliminary engineering report, the total job that lay ahead of us in order to put the whole field on a sound basis. When we got this report, it turned out to be a bigger job than we anticipated, sir.

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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION REQUEST BAVDOCKS 2570 (7-58) Juροχοίες αυxos 4000

INSTALLATION DATA

II

BOOK NO.

PAGE NO. 1

Mr. SHEPPARD. The request is predicated upon the fact that you did not have enough information as to what the requirements were? Admiral VIRDEN. That is true.

Mr. SHEPPARD. Will this complete the project?

Admiral VIRDEN. This is the completion of that project.

Mr. SHEPPARD. How are your plans?

Admiral CORRADI. The plans are underway. The complete contract plans and specifications for the whole project will be ready November 1961.

Mr. SHEPPARD. Are these antennas an exception to the rule, or are they in the standard category?

Admiral CORRADI. They are more or less standard, but the individual antenna fields are engineered for the site.

Mr. LAIRD. This field is right in the city of Annapolis?
Admiral VIRDEN. No, sir, outside.

The transmitting site is a little bit to the north in the vicinity of the engineering experiment station there.

Mr. LAIRD. I really did not quite follow the reason this estimate was changed between the time of the House and Senate hearings. Was it because you did not have final estimates when you came to the House?

Admiral VIRDEN. That is right. We did not have the preliminary engineering report when we came to the House. We were not able to tell without it the size of the job that had to be done there. We have in that field a total of 130 antennas that have been put up over a long period of time, since 1918, to meet piecemeal requirements as they came along. The result of this has been a requirement for a thorough cleanup of the field to make it electrically good and also to take care of the additional communication requirements which have developed during that time on the best integrated basis that could be done.

The extent of this came out in the preliminary engineering report which occurred between the House hearings and the Senate hearings. Mr. SHEPPARD. I do not understand this. You should not take this length of time.

Admiral CORRADI. Each of the antennas has to be inspected and examined to determine whether it is producing efficiently.

Mr. SHEPPARD. That is a matter of checkout?

Admiral CORRADI. Yes. But it does take time, the electronic engineer's time, and ultimately when it is decided to replace an antenna, the structural engineer

Mr. SHEPPARD. Is not that testing all done by instruments? Admiral CORRADI. Not necessarily. A good deal of it is physical inspection.

Mr. SHEPPARD. I grant you that.

Admiral CORRADI. The physical condition of the poles and the grounding system has to be examined, even to the extent of digging holes to look at the ground system.

Mr. SHEPPARD. Do you have very much ground erosion, or electrolysis over there?

Admiral CORRADI. No, sir.

NAVAL SECURITY GROUP DETACHMENT, CHARLESTON, S.C.

Mr. SHEPPARD. We shall take up the next item, the Naval Security

Group Detachment, Charlotte, S.C.
We shall insert page 179.

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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION REQUEST INSTALLATION DATA RAVDOCKS 2570 (7-58) Jupersedes Jaunos 4000

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