Military

1997 Congressional Hearings

    Gulf War Illnesses
    09 January 1997 Senate Veterans Affairs Committee

    CONFIRMATION OF WILLIAM S. COHEN AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
    JANUARY 22, 1997 - SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE

    Fiscal Year 1998 National Defense Authorization Request
    February 12, 1997 House National Security Committee

    Fiscal Year 1998 National Defense Authorization Request
    February 12, 1997 Senate Armed Services Committee

    Fiscal Year 1998 National Defense Authorization Request
    February 26, 1997 House Appropriations National Security Subcommittee

    Tactical Fighter Aircraft Modernization
    05 March 1997 House Military Procurement and Military Research & Development Subcommittees

    • Paul Kaminski -- Under Secretary of Defense, (Acquisition & Technology)
    • Gen. Joseph Ralston--USAF, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Cindy Williams, Assistant Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office
    • Louis Rodrigues, Director of Defense Acquisitions, General Accounting Office

    FY 1998 NAVY/MARINE CORPS ACQUISITION
    MARCH 6, 1997 HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS NATIONAL SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE

    • STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE JOHN W. DOUGLASS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION) AND VICE ADMIRAL DONALD L. PILLING, USN DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS RESOURCES, WARFARE REQUIREMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS AND LIEUTENANT GENERAL JEFFREY W. OSTER, USMC DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF PROGRAMS & RESOURCES

    U.S. Assistance to the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
    11 March 1997 - House Committee on International Relations

    Measuring Readiness
    11 March 1997 - House Military Readiness Subcommittee

    • Mark Gebicke -- Director of Military Operations & Capabilities, U.S. General Accounting Office
    • Louis Finch--Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness)
    • Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Plummer, USAF -- Deputy Director, Current Readiness & Capabilities, Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Maj. Gen. D. C. Grange -- Director of Operations, Readiness & Mobilization, Department of the Army
    • Rear Adm. John Craine, Jr.--Director of Assessments, Department of the Navy
    • Maj. Gen. Donald L. Peterson -- Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans & Operations, Department of the Air Force
    • Brig. Gen. Matthew Broderick--Director of Operations Division, Plans, Policy & Operations Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps

    B-2 bomber
    12 March 1997 - House Military Procurement Subcommittee

    • Richard Perle -- Resident Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute
    • Loren Thompson, Senior Fellow, The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
    • Eliot A. Cohen, Director, Strategic Studies, School for Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University
    • Robert W. Chandler, President, Strategic Planning International, Inc.
    • Congressman Norman D. Dicks (D-WA)

    DoD Space Programs and Issues
    March 12, 1997 Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee

    Confirmation of Keith R. Hall Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
    Senate Armed Services Committee

    New Attack Submarine Program
    18 March 1997 House Military Procurement Subcommittee

    • John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Research, Development, and Acquisition
    • Vice Admiral Donald L. Pilling, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Resources, Requirements, and Assessments
    • John S. Foster, Jr. -- Private Consultant, Former Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Current Member of the Defense Science Board
    • Lowell Wood -- Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
    • Tony Battista, Private Consultant, Former Professional Staff Member, House Armed Services Committee
    • Norman Polmar Naval Analyst, Author/Columnist, and Lecturer
    • Ronald O'Rourke -- Specialist in National Defense, Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress

    INFORMATION SUPERIORITY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY BATTLEFIELD
    MARCH 20, 1997 HOUSE MILITARY PROCURMENT AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEES

    • CURT WELDON CHAIRMAN, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
    • Ms. Joan Dempsey--Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence and Security)
    • Lt. General Douglas D. Buchholz U.S. Army--Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computers Systems (J-6), The Joint Staff
    • Major General David J. Kelley U.S. Army--Vice Director, Defense Information Systems Agency
    • Lt. General Otto J. Guenther Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications and Computers, Headquarters, Department of the Army
    • Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski Director, Navy Space, Information Warfare, Command and Control, Chief of Naval Operations
    • Lt. General Paul K. Van Riper--Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
    • Lt. General William L. Donahue Deputy Chief of Staff, Communications and Information, Headquarters, Department of the Air Force
    • Duane P. Andrews Chairman, Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare-Defense, Executive Vice President, Science Application International Corporation

    FY 1998 NAVY SUBMARINE PROGRAMS
    APRIL 8, 1997 SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE: SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEAPOWER

    WORLDWIDE SUBMARINE CHALLENGES, 1997
    8 APRIL 1997 SENATE ARMED SERVICES SEAPOWER SUBCOMMITTEE

    Aid to Eastern Europe and the New Independent States
    April 9, 1997 - House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations

    • Thomas A. Dine, Assistant Administrator Bureau of Europe and the New Independent States United States Agency for International Development
    • James H. Holmes Coordinator for East European Assistance U.S. Department of State
    • Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Programs
    April 9, 1997 Senate Armed Services Airland Forces Subcommittees

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Programs
    April 9, 1997 House National Security 
    Military Procurement and Military Research & Development Subcommittees

    FY 1998 Department of Defense authorization request - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Programs
    April 16, 1997, House Armed Services Committee, Military Procurement and Military Research & Development Subcommittee

    Quadrennial Defense Review and National Defense Panel
    April 16, 1997, House National Security Committee

    • Philip A. Odeen, Chairman, National Defense Panel
    • Adm. David E. Jeremiah (Ret.), Member, National Defense Panel, Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Andrew F. Krepinevich, Member, National Defense Panel, Director, Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments

    Operational Readiness of U.S. Military Forces
    17 April 1997 -- Senate Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee

    SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND U.S. POLICY OPTIONS
    April 23, 1997 House International Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs

    Quadrennial Defense Review
    Wednesday, May 21 1997 - House National Security

    • William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense
    • Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    Quadrennial Defense Review
    Thursday, May 22 1997 - House National Security

    B-2 Bomber
    11 June 1997 - House Appropriations National Security Subcommittee

    Iran Libya Sanctions Act
    23 July 1997 - House International Relations Committee

    Reserve Component issues resulting from the Quadrennial Defense Review
    29 July 1997 - House Military Personnel Subcommittee

    Hearing on Chinese Political Developments, Threats to U.S. National Security, & Intelligence Challenges
    September 18, 1997 - Senate Intelligence Committee

    • Dr. Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and Associate Fellow, National Defense University

    China Policy
    September 18, 1997 - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

    • Harry Wu Executive Director, The Laogai Research Foundation

    Iran-Libya Sanctions Act
    October 30, 1997, Senate Banking Committee

    • James Harmon, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank)
    • Richard Newcomb, Treasury Department Director Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
    • William C. Ramsay Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities