AUTHORIZATION FOR MILITARY PROCUREMENT,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, FISCAL YEAR
1970, AND RESERVE STRENGTH

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1192 and S. 2407

A BILL TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS DURING THE
FISCAL YEAR 1970 FOR PROCUREMENT OF AIRCRAFT,
MISSILES, NAVAL VESSELS, AND TRACKED COMBAT VE-
HICLES, RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUA-
TION FOR THE ARMED FORCES, AND TO PRESCRIBE THE
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL STRENGTH OF THE SELECTED
RESERVE OF EACH RESERVE COMPONENT OF THE ARMED
FORCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

PART 1
(of 2 parts)

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

JOHN C. STENNIS, Mississippi, Chairman

T. EDWARD BRASWELL, Jr., Chief of Staff
CHARLES B. KIRBOW, Chief Olerk

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HEARINGS AND WITNESSES APPEARING IN PART I

(A complete witness list and index appears at the end of part 2)

Wednesday, March 19, 1969 -

Statement of former Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford--

Hon. Melvin R. Laird, Secretary of Defense...

Page

1, 119

5

87, 120

Hon. David Packard, Deputy Secretary of Defense

127

Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

115, 139

Dr. John S. Foster, Jr., Director, Defense Research and Engineer

ing..

182, 197, 205, 224

Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

206, 226

Tuesday, March 25, 1969

243, 349

Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army 247, 260, 305, 350

Hon. Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army

250, 268, 349

Wednesday, March 26, 1969

391, 425

Maj. Gen. Henry A. Miley, Jr., Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for

Logistics, Department of the Army

392, 425

Charles L. Poor, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Development).

436, 437

Lt. Gen. Austin W. Betts, Chief of Research and Development, De

partment of the Army

438, 449

Thursday, March 27, 1969-

473, 517

Charles L. Poor, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Development).

475, 525

473, 517

Lt. Gen. A. W. Betts, Chief of Research and Development, Department of the Army

Tuesday, April 1, 1969.

Hon. John H. Chafee, Secretary of the Navy

Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.
Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations-

Wednesday, April 2, 1969.

543, 615

545, 616

589, 639

591, 622

663, 709

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations....
Vice Adm. Thomas F. Connolly, U.S. Navy, DCNO (Air)

664

683, 709

Brig. Gen. G. C. Axtell, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, Headquarters,
U.S. Marine Corps -

Maj. Gen. K. B. McCutcheon, U.S. Marine Corps, Deputy Chief of

759

688, 712

Thursday, April 3, 1969.

Staff (Air)

769, 836

Hon. Robert A. Frosch, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research

and Development).

Tuesday, April 15, 1969

770, 836

867, 894

Vice Adm. J. B. Colwell, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Fleet
Operations and Readiness)

Wednesday, April 16, 1969

Hon. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force_
Gen. John P. McConnell, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force...

867, 894

921, 997

922