Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1059, Authorizing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 for Military Activities of the Department of Defense, for Military Construction, and for Defense Activities of the Department of Energy, to Prescribe Personnel Strengths for Such Fiscal Year for the Armed Forces, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 |
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Page 95 - 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 166 - Program, while the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict) provides oversight for the annual Federal-State-Local exercise mandated by law for the program. The Secretary of Defense designated the Secretary of the Army as the Executive Agent for implementing the program. The Director of Military Support (DOMS) is the Staff Action Agent and the Commander of the Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM) is the Program Director for the Domestic Preparedness Program.
Page 37 - Saturation ballistic missile attacks against littoral forces, ports, airfields, storage facilities, and staging areas could make it extremely costly to project US forces into a disputed theater, much less carry out operations to defeat a well-armed aggressor. Simply the threat of such enemy missile attacks might deter US and coalition partners from responding to aggression in the first instance.
Page 400 - Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco.
Page 95 - the capability to collect, process, and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information while exploiting or denying an adversary's ability to do the same.
Page 29 - US infrastructures requires serious collaboration between federal, state and local governments, on the one hand, and the public and private sectors on the other.
Page 166 - Train the Trainer" training for local first responder trainers including hazardous material (HAZMAT), firefighters, law enforcement, and emergency medical service personnel. Tabletop and functional "hands-on" exercises using chemical and biological scenarios further reinforce this training. A training equipment package is loaned to each city for their subsequent training use. To date, 51 cities have participated in the training with approximately 14,800 first responder trainers having been trained.
Page 401 - ... will to confront a sometimes politically powerful segment of the population or one that is protected by well-armed and well-equipped insurgent groups. The international drug control strategy seeks to bolster source country resources, capabilities, and political will to reduce cultivation, attack production, and disrupt and dismantle trafficking organizations, including their command and control structure and financial underpinnings.
Page 164 - The NSC-chaired WMDP senior management group coordinates interagency WMDP policy issues and oversees the activities of seven subgroups. These subgroups are engaged in coordinating policies involving Federal Assistance to State and Local Authorities, Research and Development, Prevention of WMD from Entering the US, Security of US WMD Facilities and Materials, Contingency Planning and Exercises, Legislative and Legal Issues, and Intelligence. Each subgroup membership is comprised of the appropriate...
Page 401 - Department was directed to serve as the "single lead agency of the Federal Government for the detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs into the United States.