Department of Defense Appropriations for 1966: Hearings, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, Parts 1-2 |
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Page 525 - US SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC The Committee on Armed Services, and the Subcommittee on the Department of Defense of the Committee on Appropriations, met jointly, pursuant to recess, at 10 am, in room S-127, US Capitol Building, Hon.
Page 475 - Very well, sir. (Whereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee recessed to reconvene at 2:30 pm the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION, THURSDAT, JUNE 25, 1959 TRINITY DIVISION, CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT STATEMENT OF HON.
Page 216 - ... their targets before they reach the target areas. Terminal defenses can destroy enemy weapons or delivery vehicles within the target areas before they impact.
Page 216 - The strategic offensive forces can contribute to the damage limiting objective by attacking enemy delivery vehicles on their bases or launch sites, provided that our forces can reach them before the vehicles are launched at our cities. Area defense forces can destroy enemy vehicles en route to their targets before they reach the target areas.
Page 233 - Staff agree that the program supported by this budget will increase our overall combat effectiveness and will provide effective forces in a high state of readiness for the defense of the vital interests of the United States.
Page 218 - I pointed out in past appearances before this committee, such projections are, at best, only informed estimates, particularly since they deal with a period beyond the production and deployment leadtimes of the weapon systems involved. 1. The potential aggressors' strategic offensive-defensive forces By and large, the current estimates of potential aggressors...
Page 458 - I. GENERAL Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Defense and the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, including the Department of Defense...
Page 216 - In other words, if we were to try to assure survival of a very high percent of our population, and if the Soviets were to choose to frustrate this attempt because they viewed it as a threat to their Assured Destruction capability, the extra cost to them would appear to be substantially less than the extra cost to us.
Page 180 - NMCS is comprised of the following : the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon, the Alternate National Military Command Center (ANMCC), the National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA), the National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP), and the various warning and sensor and communications networks linking these command facilities, the unified and specified commands and the service headquarters.
Page 134 - The effort directed toward the expansion of technological knowledge and the development of materials, components, devices, and subsystems which it is hoped will have some useful application to new military weapons and equipment. Here the emphasis is on exploring the feasibility of various approaches to the solution of specific military problems, up to the point of demonstrating feasibility with "breadboard" devices and prototype components and subsystems.