During the next phase, transattack, our force management tasks increase to four, and as this slide depicts, [deleted]. [Deleted.] The airborne communications systems, if undamaged by nuclear effects, should function normally for line-of-sight communications. Airborne, low-frequency radio will allow us to communicate beyond line of sight [deleted]. If, as we expect, the assigned command-control aircraft successfully launch and establish their radio links, we would then have lineof-sight communications relay capability for the most essential mission traffic. [Deleted.] Mr. SMITH. [Deleted.] General ELLIS. The postattack period requires all six of the force management tasks. With our present systems and under these conditions, I expect our ability to accomplish these tasks to [deleted]. The status of information-gathering systems would remain for some time essentially as in the transattack period. [Deleted.] The Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Air Force, and SAC [deleted]. [Deleted] have been working for some time to develop and implement solutions. Dr. Dinneen will now conclude with a brief of the Defense Department's proposed programs leading toward a strategic force management system which will be more responsive to national policy and guidance. Thank you. Senator MCINTYRE. Dr. Dinneen? STATEMENT OF HON. GERALD P. DINNEEN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE-COMMUNICATIONS, COMMAND, CONTROL AND INTELLIGENCE Mr. DINNEEN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In this first chart I am returning to some of the remarks you made at the beginning of this session having to do with the overall management of our strategic forces. As you indicated, this is an area that has been relatively unexplored by the Congress, so in this chart I would like to indicate the major individuals and organizations that have responsibilities in that management. THE MANAGEMENT OF STRATEGIC CINCS-OPERATIONS GENERATION OF REQUIREMENTS JCS-OPERATION OF NATIONAL LEVEL C2 VALIDATION OF CINC AND SERVICE REQU REMENTS DCA-DIRECTOR-WORLD WIDE MILITARY COMMAND & CONTROL DIRECTOR-DEFENSE COMMUNICATIONS WWMCC-SYSTEM ENGINEER/ARCHITECT ASD C31-OVER, LL DIRECTION FOR PROGRAM FLANNING AND USDRE-DT&E AND PROCUREMENTS TO IMPROVE EXISTING CAPABILITIES WWMCCS COUNCIL.—DECISION MAKING BODY FOR WORLD WIDE Of course, at the top we have the CINCS, and you have heard from General Ellis, the commander-in-chief of SAC; the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you have heard from Admiral Burkhalter about the JCS; you have heard from Admiral Burkhalter about the National Command Centers; Admiral Murphy, who is the Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, has addressed you on the broad guidance. The DCS, the Defense Communications Agency-the Director of DCA, General Paschal, has several responsibilities in this area. First of all, he is the systems engineer for the Worldwide Military Command and Control System, and I will be speaking of many of the components of that system. He is also, of course, the Director of the Defense Communications System, which provides the long-haul communications to our strategic forces. My position as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command and Control and Intelligence, gives me the responsibility for the resource management, the development and acquisition of new systems. I also serve as the principal Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Dr. Bill Perry, who has appeared before your commmittee before. In that respect I also have involvement with him in other systems which apply to this overall strategic problem and you will be hearing from him later in this series. of hearings. Finally, I will mention the WWMCCS Council, the Worldwide Military Command and Control System Council, which is chaired by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Charles Duncan. The other members are the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Brown, and myself, and I act as Secretary of that Council. That council reviews all of the programs which apply to these areas and other people who sit in on that council include people from the JCS, Admiral Murphy, and the various services, and this is to review not only the requirements but also how we are meeting these requirements. This was set up several years ago by the Secretary of Defense in order to bring them together in an integrated way, as you indicated in your opening remarks. In my remarks today, I am going to be following this outline, using the preattack, transattack and the postattack phases of strategic engagement, should it occur, and Admiral Murphy has already given you a definition of those three phases. I will also be talking about systems which fall into the category of Sensors, National Level Command Systems, CinC level, that is, SAC, CINCEUR, CINCPAC, and then the communications which support all of these systems. I have shown a chart which was used by General Ellis in order to tie back what I have to talk about to what he has already discussed. The information gathering column, in General Ellis' chart, I happen to refer to that as Sensors, what he refers to as Data Management and Command Center, of course, is covered under my chart with the CINC level and the National Level Command Systems; so we have integrated this approach and we are talking about the same sets of functions and also during the same three phases. Now in the interest of time, I will not cover all of the systems which are part of our Worldwide Military Command and Control System or all the systems which are involved in the management of the strategic forces. I will, however, talk about those which are the most difficult. and that is, in the transattack period. [Deleted.] The first one I will be talking about is the [deleted]. The Vugraph on the right is a photograph of this [deleted] and it has been a most successful program, [deleted]. [Deleted.] |