Defense Department authorization and oversight: hearings on H.R. 5167, Department of Defense authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 1985, and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, Partie 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 |
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Page 210 - Quality (hereinafter referred to as the council). The council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the president to serve at his pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The president shall designate one of the members of the council to serve as chairman. Each member shall be a person who, as a result of his training, experience, and attainments, is exceptionally well...
Page 236 - ... order, and, for the purpose of assuring such priority, to require acceptance and performance of such contracts or orders in preference to other contracts or orders by any person he finds to be capable of their performance, and (2) to allocate materials and facilities in such manner, upon such conditions, and to such extent as he shall deem necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense.
Page 236 - The powers granted in this section shall not be used to control the general distribution of any material in the civilian market unless the President finds (1) that such material is a scarce and critical material essential to the national defense, and (2) that the requirements of the national defense for such material cannot otherwise be met without creating a significant dislocation of the normal distribution of such material in the civilian market to such a degree as to create appreciable hardship.
Page 30 - In the strategic area, TRIDENT submarines are required to ensure that the United States continues to maintain a credible, survivable deterrent to nuclear war, independent of foreseeable threats. This technologically current, highly survivable submarine platform is equipped with long range missiles which permit operations throughout the world's oceans and will extend sea-based deterrent survivability into the twenty-first century.
Page 267 - PHOENIX, an all-weather missile, employs semi-active, mid-course and active guidance. The PHOENIX system utilized for the F-14 aircraft has unique capabilities not matched by any other air-to-air system. It has successfully demonstrated a capability against high altitude and high speed targets, and a high degree of effectiveness during multiple and long range engagements.
Page 278 - It is important to recall that the mission of the Navy, as set forth in Title 10, US Code, is to be prepared to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea in support of national interests; in effect to assure continued maritime superiority for the United States and its allies.
Page 391 - Naval Reserve Association fully supports the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations in their efforts to achieve Maritime Superiority in the shortest possible time.
Page 193 - Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] [For...
Page 263 - I would be pleased to respond to any questions you or members of the committee may have.
Page 270 - MK 30 is a versatile and recoverable target which is used to provide anti-submarine warfare training and evaluation operations on instrumented three-dimensional underwater acoustic ranges. The major performance characteristics of the MK 30 Target are: simulation of dynamic maneuvers of modern submarines; response to active sonar and torpedo interrogations; generation of submarine-like radiated noise and magnetic anomaly; and the ability to be controlled by preprogrammed or acoustically transmitted...