Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1981: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 |
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1980 Estimate FY 1981 budget request acquisition air defense Air Force air-to-air missile aircraft amphibious Anti-Submarine Warfare attack submarine ballistic missile Budget Activity budget plans capability CHART combat Command communications components continue cruise missile deleted deployed dollars electronic electronic countermeasures facilities Financing fiscal year 1981 fleet FY 1979 Actual FY 1981 budget FY 1981 Estimate helicopter ICBM improved increase Initial Spares installation inventory launch launchers Marine Corps military million in FY million is requested mission modification NATO Naval Navy Navy's nuclear operational P-1 Line Item POSEIDON prior year budget Procurement Cost production Qty Amt radar range RDT&E replace Research satellites schedule Senator HUDDLESTON sensors shipbuilding ships SLBM sonar sonobuoy Soviet spares and repair SSBN STANDARD Missile strategic support equipment surveillance TACAMO tactical tank target Test and Evaluation TOMAHAWK torpedo TRIDENT vehicles vertical launching system Warfare Warsaw Pact weapon systems
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Page 577 - MISSION : To Destroy Enemy Ships, Primarily Submarines, In Order To Prohibit The Employment Of Such Forces In Attack And Destruction Of US Or Allied Targets.
Page 514 - Act of 1931, as amended, specifies a division of new construction warships between public and private shipyards, with the lead warship of a class and each succeeding alternate ship going to the naval shipyards unless specifically exempted by Presidential authority for each program year. Every year since 1967 the Presidential determination has been to construct all ships in private shipyards.
Page 21 - The exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission. Command and control functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, facilities, and procedures employed by a commander in planning, directing, coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the accomplishment of the mission.
Page 270 - PHOENIX, a long-range missile using both semi-active and active radar seekers. The SIDEWINDER, SPARROW and PHOENIX current capabilities are significant and satisfy the requirements they were designed to meet. Increased capability to counter the projected threat is being incorporated through ongoing product improvement programs. SPARROW...
Page 459 - The balance of our requirements in this activity totals $3.5 million needed for other essential minor programs costing less than $900,000 each. Funds requested under this activity will support annual training requirements, permit the phased acquisition of war reserve stocks, and also provide for authorized levels of mobilization training stocks. In Budget Activity 2, Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles...
Page 458 - Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics Headquarters, US Marine Corps Mr, Chairman and members of the Committee, I am Major General Harold A.
Page 687 - Program, along with its accompanying program for the control of exports of US technology is to: Maintain the level of technological supremacy which enables the United States to develop, acquire and maintain the military capabilities needed for national security. In FY 1980, four specific goals have been highlighted in the DoD S&T Program; namely: 1. Ten percent real growth in Services-sponsored Research (6.1) During the FY 1965-1975 period, the overall research budget was eroded by over 50 percent...
Page 581 - FY 1981 marks the commencement of the first carrier service life extension program (SLEP) conversion. USS SARATOGA will enter the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in October 1980 for 28 months. The SLEP of USS SARATOGA will extend her service life for 15 years beyond the current expected service life of 30 years. Based on current prices, SLEP will provide 15 years of carrier life at roughly forty percent the cost associated with new construction of a similar large deck carrier.
Page 506 - BUYING 1718 SHIPS AND ABOUT 330 AIRCRAFT EACH YEAR, AN INVESTMENT OF ABOUT $8 BILLION FOR SHIPBUILDING AND $6 BILLION FOR AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT EACH YEAR. WE HAVE FALLEN SHORT OF THAT REQUIREMENT THROUGHOUT THE PAST DECADE, AVERAGING 15 SHIPS AND 247 AIRCRAFT A YEAR (WITH AN AVERAGE OF ONLY 15 SHIPS AND 138 AIRCRAFT DURING THE MOST RECENT THREE YEARS). BUT MORE IS INVOLVED THAN JUST NUMBERS. THE TYPES OF SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT WE BUY DETERMINE THE MIX OF CAPABILITIES — AND THE MARGIN OF SUPERIORITY...
Page 508 - ANGELES (SSN 688) class submarine. These advanced ships are essential elements in our naval forces of the future and provide a potent counter to the increased Soviet submarine and surface threat. The lead ship of the class, USS LOS ANGELES, was delivered by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in the fall of 1976 and has met or exceeded all performance characteristics that the class was designed to achieve.