Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994 and the Future Years Defense Program: Nuclear deterrence, arms control, and defense intelligenceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 7 pages |
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activities Air Force Airborne Laser Alamos architecture ASCI assessment ballistic missile defense BMDO budget capability certification Chairman challenges commercial components continue cost critical Defense Support Program demonstrate deploy deployment deterrent efforts enduring stockpile ensure facility fiscal year 1999 fiscal year 2000 flight tests funding future GANSLER going ICBM infrastructure initial integrated interceptor issues joint kill vehicle Laboratory launch look Los Alamos LYLES maintain manufacturing ment military million mission National Ignition Facility national missile defense national security NMD program NMD system nuclear testing nuclear weapons operational Pantex Peller performance plant plutonium production radar reduce REIS reliability requirements risk safety Sandia satellites SBIRS schedule sea-based Secretary Senator ALLARD Senator LANDRIEU Senator SMITH simulation space control space-based START II Stockpile Stewardship Stockpile Stewardship Program surveillance target technical THAAD Thank threat tion tritium warheads
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Page 50 - It is the policy of the United States to deploy as soon as is technologically possible an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack (whether accidental, unauthorized, or deliberate) with funding subject to the annual authorization of appropriations and the annual appropriation of funds for National Missile Defense.
Page 298 - ... risk, based on evaluation of the functions we perform and we must distinguish between information vulnerabilities that cause inconvenience, as opposed to those that leave us vulnerable to irreparable harm. I would argue that our vulnerabilities in that latter category are limited. By DOD directive, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence is the focal point for information operations, which includes information assurance and information warfare....
Page 208 - Shahab-3 missile, which could significantly alter the military equation in the Middle East by giving Iran the capability to strike targets in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and most of Turkey.
Page 27 - In fiscal year 2001, we would conduct a Defense Acquisition Board review to assess the status of the program. Based on program performance, we would seek approval to initiate upgrades to the current early warning radars; begin building the X-band ground-based radar and start integrating the battle management, command, control and communications into the Cheyenne Mountain complex.
Page 208 - Linebacker" will be a single mission ship capable of performing TBMD or Aegis multiple missions. Two AEGIS cruisers, the USS Port Royal and the USS Lake Erie, are at sea now providing critical feedback to influence the tactical design improvements and modifications to the AEGIS combat system. They will conduct a variety of at-sea tests, develop core doctrine and tactics, and serve as a focal point for getting our theater missile defense capability to sea. In a contingency, the warfighting CINC's...
Page 198 - ... and the establishment of bilateral and multilateral research and development programs. The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is a cooperative development program between the US, Germany, and Italy to develop a mobile cruise and ballistic missile defense system. Recently, the Department decided that the planned MEADS system was unaffordable as structured. Therefore, we are redirecting MEADS towards the development of evolving technologies that will be lower risk and more affordable, and...
Page 63 - ... conceptually divide the explosion sequence into each of its parts, then test and analyze each of these separately, much as you would test the ignition system, the cooling system, and the brakes on your car.
Page 29 - SBIRS high, will alert the entire system of a potential ballistic missile attack; cue the radars to erect "search fences" to detect the incoming missile and start the battle management centers to evaluate engagement options.
Page 63 - Yet, we must produce replacements with modern material and processes that will still maintain weapons safety and reliability. As our stockpile weapons age we expect more parts to become defective -just as with our automobiles. Because new warheads have not been produced since 1989, we cannot replace old weapons with new ones. In addition, our weapons designers with nuclear testing experience are also aging. In about ten years, most of them will have retired. This means that as our newest system,...
Page 66 - The experimental program is how, in the absence of nuclear testing, we divide the physics of the explosive sequence into each of its parts and analyze each separately Information that we have from the production and surveillance activities described previously, helps us to focus our experiments. Information from over 1,000 US nuclear tests also tells us...