Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000--H.R. 1401 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session: Military Research and Development Subcommittee on Title II--research, Development, Test, and Evaluation : Hearings Held February 25 and March 11, 1999, Volume 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 292 pages |
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... deployed — and you are both aware of the vote that just occurred in this committee ; I think it was 50 to 3 ? Fifty to three , and the other ones who were not here , most of them — all of them were co - sponsors of the bill , so the ...
... deployed — and you are both aware of the vote that just occurred in this committee ; I think it was 50 to 3 ? Fifty to three , and the other ones who were not here , most of them — all of them were co - sponsors of the bill , so the ...
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... deployment of a national missile defense , because I think it is today's reality and a very obvious thing for this Congress to be doing at this stage of the process . And , second , I am increasingly concerned about whether or not we ...
... deployment of a national missile defense , because I think it is today's reality and a very obvious thing for this Congress to be doing at this stage of the process . And , second , I am increasingly concerned about whether or not we ...
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... deployed , and then we would keep the technology going on the Navy Upper - Tier Program , and that would be out be- yond the 2010 time period kind of deployment . And , so you would have seen a very different picture here . Now , what ...
... deployed , and then we would keep the technology going on the Navy Upper - Tier Program , and that would be out be- yond the 2010 time period kind of deployment . And , so you would have seen a very different picture here . Now , what ...
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... deployment decision against primarily this rogue threat , but if we had a system , it may also have some backup capability against an inadvertent launch by somebody else . And the idea was to have as open an architecture as we could so ...
... deployment decision against primarily this rogue threat , but if we had a system , it may also have some backup capability against an inadvertent launch by somebody else . And the idea was to have as open an architecture as we could so ...
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... deployment review in June of 2000 ; that was the original date that we had talked about . You will see at that point what we will have , though , is these four flights to base it on ; not very many , in other words , and they will not ...
... deployment review in June of 2000 ; that was the original date that we had talked about . You will see at that point what we will have , though , is these four flights to base it on ; not very many , in other words , and they will not ...
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