Operation and Maintenance Financial Management Practices: Hearing Before the Military Readiness Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held July 22, 1997, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 100 pages |
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Page 81 - Certain national infrastructures are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the United States.
Page 107 - Rule XI, Clause 2(g) of the House of Representatives Dr. Lowell Wood is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, and a permanent staff member (currently on the Director's Technical Staff) of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated under long-term contract (since 1953 through the present) by the University of California for the US Department of Energy and its predecessor organizations, under Contract W-7405-eng-48. The Hoover Institution...
Page 26 - Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological...
Page 136 - This increased reliance now requires the Army Reserve to maintain many units at substantially higher levels of readiness and to be ready to...
Page 3 - Mark E. Gebicke Director, Military Operations and Capabilities Issues National Security and International Affairs Division US General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Dear Mr. Gebicke: This is the Department of Defense (DoD) response to the General Accounting Office (GAO) draft report, 'MILITARY TRAINING DEATHS : Need to Ensure That Safety Lessons Are Learned and Implemented...
Page 65 - Mr. Chairman, this concludes our statement. We would be pleased to answer any questions you or other members of the Subcommittee may have at this time.
Page 107 - Energy, approximately 5% coming from the Department of Defense and 10% from other Federal agencies. Dr. Wood is unaware of any funding currently being received for any purpose by either the Hoover Institution or the Livermore Laboratory - or funding received during the past three years, or funding which is anticipated or being negotiated for - on the subject of his testimony. In particular, Dr. Wood has received or benefited from no such funding personally. Dr. Wood is not representing the Hoover...
Page 83 - We built extensive special test facilities and tested these systems to assure their continued operation under attack. Obviously, the nuclear threat from hostile nations cannot be dismissed today, but we consider it a remote possibility. Likewise, we consider a terrorist acquiring a nuclear weapon and positioning it at the high altitude necessary for the generation of an EMP burst that would debilitate our infrastructures to be a very remote possibility. Consequently, we are not considering any special...
Page 136 - You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life — but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.
Page 134 - Bill requires the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual report to the Congress regarding measures being taken to ensure that the Reserve components are being appropriately funded and equipped in the long and the short term.