X50000 TRUCK, FORK LIFT, CBD, PT, 4000 LB ML5365 ITEMS LESS THAN $2.0M (MHE) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1986. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE AGENCIES INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Mr. CHAPPELL. The committee will please come to order. Pursuant to a motion duly made and passed, this hearing will be in executive session because of the classification of material to be discussed. The committee this afternoon will receive testimony relevant to the fiscal year 1987 budget request of the Defense Agencies for RDT&E funds. Those agencies to be heard today include the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Testimony on the Strategic Defense Initiative, which comprises over 50 percent of this budget account, will be received in a separate hearing next month. The fiscal year 1987 budget for non-SDI programs totals $3.6 billion, which represents real growth of minus 4 percent over the fiscal year 1986 level adjusted for Gramm-Rudman. Although the committee will be unable to cover the hundreds of projects in this account today, we will consider several major programs such as the National Aerospace Plane and NATO Cooperative Testing. The witnesses today are Lt. Gen. John L. Pickitt, Director of DNA; Dr. Robert C. Duncan, Director of DARPA; Mr. John E. Krings, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation; and Dr. Joseph A. Navarro, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation. Gentlemen, the committee offers you a special welcome here today as you all appear before the committee for the first time. Your prepared statements will be placed into the record at the appropriate points. Due to time constraints, we are planning to allow approximately forty minutes each for DNA and DARPA, and twenty minutes each for Dr. Navarro and Mr. Krings, in that order. (191) |