Proliferation Threats and Missile Defense Responses: Hearing Before the Military Procurment Subcommittee Joint with Military Research and Development Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First and Second Session : Hearings Held, April 4, 1995, February 29, March 7 and 21, June 18 and 20, September 27, 1996, Volume 2

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Page 348 - Party undertakes: (a) not to give missiles, launchers, or radars, other than ABM interceptor missiles, ABM launchers, or ABM radars, capabilities to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in flight trajectory, and not to test them in an ABM mode...
Page 606 - Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and an ex officio member of the President's Commission on Science and Technology.
Page 146 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, it is my privilege to appear before you today to present...
Page 570 - Title 22 of the United States Code, and Section 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 USC 1631), in view of the continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States...
Page 570 - Iran constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Page 356 - ... telephone invention after he came to this country, and it has given employment to more high-priced labor than any invention we have ever known. (Parenthetically I might add that the telephone company paid taxes last year of over $11,000,000 per month.) I could go ahead and name others, Mr. Chairman, but I do not want to take too much time on that, but I want to tell you, it is my firm conviction that our patent system, as Mr. Langner said, is the best in the world, and it spurs men to do things...
Page 570 - In view of the President's excellent characterization of the proliferation problem, the message he sent to Congress with the veto of the first 1996 defense authorization should be noted. It said in part: First, the bill requires deployment by 2003 of a costly missile defense system able to defend all...
Page 163 - The NMD Ground-based radar is an X-band. phased array radar that leverages heavily off developments achieved by the THAAD GBR program. By taking advantage of the work already completed in the TMD arena, BMDO has been able to reduce the expected development cost of the GBR by approximately $70 million. In 1998 the GBR prototype, developed by Raytheon, will be fabricated at the US Kwajalein Atoll to begin testing to resolve critical issues related to discrimination, target object map, kill assessment,...
Page 158 - HMD programs. These activities have been grouped together because they provide direct support across BMD acquisition programs which could not be executed without this important support. Therefore, we introduce greater efficiency into the programs because they accomplish an effort once which otherwise would have to be separately accomplished for each Service element. These activities include architecture development and battle management, command, control, communications, and intelligence; test and...
Page 152 - Missile systems; adding hinds to deal with cost increases and development delays; exploring a concept for cooperative development with our Allies for a Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS); and improving our Battle Management, Command, Control and Communications (BMC3) capability. Neither the PAC-3 nor the Navy Area Defense programs involve show-stopping technical challenges at this point. Rather, they involve engineering challenges. Nonetheless, the key issue is a matter of execution of the...

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