Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 1050, to Authorize Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004 for Military Activities of the Department of Defense, for Military Construction, and for Defense Activities of the Department of Energy, to Prescribe Personnel Strengths for Such Fiscal Year for the Armed Forces, and for Other Purposes, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - United States |
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2004 budget request ability acquisition Admiral CLARK Admiral MULLEN Advanced Advanced Gun System Aegis aircraft carrier CG(X Chairman combat system concept CONGRESS THE LIBRARY continue cost critical cruisers DD(X deployed destroyers efforts enhance Expeditionary Strike Groups fire support fiscal year 2004 fleet force structure forward funding future global going HAGEE helicopter improve includes increased initiatives integrated investment Joint Force lethal LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Littoral Combat Ship logistics maneuver Marine Corps ment million Missile Defense Agency mission modules multiyear naval Navy's Northrop Grumman number of ships operational platforms procurement readiness recapitalization requirements Sea Basing Sea Power 21 sea-based Sea-Swap Secretary YOUNG Senator KENNEDY Senator REED Senator TALENT shipbuilding SSGN Standard Missile STOVL subcommittee submarine surface combatant sustain Tactical testing Thank threat tion Tomahawk Tomahawk missiles transformational upgrade war on terrorism warfare warfighting capability
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Page 21 - Combatant Commander's Theater Security Cooperation Plans and ensuring that we maintained a ready and capable force. Over the last year, Marines participated in more than 200 service, joint, and combined exercises. These included live fire, field training, command post, and computer-assisted exercises. Participants varied in size from small units to Marine Expeditionary Forces. Overseas, Marine Expeditionary Units (Special Operations Capable) conducted exercises in Jordan, Italy, Croatia, Tunisia,...
Page 18 - Our security will require transforming the military you will lead — a military that must be ready to strike at a moment's notice in any dark corner of the world. And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives.
Page 29 - The Blount Island facility in Jacksonville, Florida, is a National asset that must be acquired to ensure its availability for long-term use. Blount Island's peacetime mission of supporting the Maritime Pre-positioning Force is vitally important, while its wartime capability of supporting large-scale logistics sustainment from the continental United States gives it strategic significance. The facility will play a vital role in the National military strategy as the site for maintenance operations of...
Page 64 - Transformational and leap ahead technologies include an integrated power system and electric drive; the Advanced Gun System with high rate of fire and magazine capability; the new Multi-Function Radar/Volume Search Radar suite; optimal manning through advanced system automation, stealth through reduced acoustic, magnetic, IR, and radar cross-section signature; and enhanced survivability through automated damage control and fire protection systems.
Page 52 - Commanders will now work together to avoid duplication of capability and ensure that we achieve integration and interoperability benefits wherever possible within the Navy and Marine Corps. Equally important, we are reshaping the acquisition workforce to concentrate on mission critical functions. These human resource plans call for an analysis of key characteristics of the acquisition workforce, an assessment and projection of changes in the workforce into 2008, and the identification of human resource...
Page 27 - ... relevant, structured education - at the graduate and undergraduate level - through both resident programs and distance education. Our intent is to greatly expand beyond the current emphasis on field-grade officers to support leadership development throughout the training and education continuum from Marine Private through General Officer, and to specifically bring senior Non-commissioned Officers further along the education continuum. Our Lifelong Learning mission is to establish an integrated...
Page 21 - Marines and task-organized units are assigned to these missions in order to provide support for domestic drug-law enforcement throughout the United States, and to provide conventional training to military forces in South America that execute counter-narcotics missions. Marine operational and intelligence teams also support Colombian military efforts to combat narco-terrorism. Marines of our reserve forces have executed the majority of these missions. Our successes in these global operations and exercises...
Page 23 - Team will conduct a pilot deployment on the west coast to test the Expeditionary Strike Group concept. Navy combatants have already been incorporated within the existing training and deployment cycle of the Amphibious Ready Group. This experiment will also allow us to test command-and-control arrangements for the Expeditionary Strike Group. It will provide critical information to support the future implementation of the concept and highlight any needed changes in service doctrine, organization, training,...
Page 65 - FY04; these ships will be configured to carry more than 150 Tomahawk missiles, enabling covert, large-volume strike. The SSGN will also have the capability to support Special Operations Forces for an extended period, providing clandestine insertion and retrieval by lockout chamber, dry deck shelters or the Advanced Seal Delivery System, and they will be arrayed with a variety of unmanned systems to enhance the joint force commander's knowledge of the battlespace. We will leverage the existing TRIDENT...
Page 54 - ... employed on existing platforms and other future ship classes. DD(X) will dramatically improve naval surface fire support capabilities available for MAGTF, joint and coalition forces. Planned technologies, such as integrated power system and total ship computing environment in an open architecture, will provide more affordable future ship classes in terms of both construction and operation. In a noteworthy partnership with industry, the Navy shifted the DD(X) volume search radar to S-band, providing...