vided a brief biographical sketch that may be included in the record, if you wish. First, I would like to state that the DOD R.D.T. & E. program proposed for fiscal year 1963 has received a most comprehensive and thorough review. From the time I became Director of Defense Research and Engineering last May, a great portion of my time has been spent in analysis of and action on the major elements of the fiscal year 1962 program and the proposed programs for fiscal year 1963. Key members of my staff and I were engaged almost continuously from July through December in the program review and the budget review. We, of course, worked closely throughout with the senior civilian and military R.D.T. & E. managers in the military departments, that is, the service Assistant Secretaries for Research and Development, the service Chiefs of R. & D., and the commanders of the service R. & D. field organizations. We also examined our recommendations at length with the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense, the ASD (Comptroller) and his staff and the Bureau of the Budget staff. Accordingly, I believe that the proposed program derived from our review is sound and well balanced; and, I fully support the funding requested under the R.D.T. & E. appropriation title. The Secretary of Defense has already given you a most comprehensive statement including considerable information on most of the major R.D.T. & E. programs and projects. Accordingly, there may be in my presentation some repetition of what you have already heard. However, I believe that the R.D.T. & E. program proposed for fiscal year 1963 is so important in relation to meeting our national military objectives and involves such heavy funding outlays, that any repetition will be worthwhile if it serves to provide a more complete understanding on the part of this committee and the general public. I wish to begin my statement with a brief financial summary; then I will highlight the major elements of the program under the same general headings used by Secretary McNamara in his presentation to you covering the programs to be supported by the R.D.T. & E. appropriation. FINANCIAL SUMMARY The new obligational authority requested for the R.D.T. & E. title totals $6.843 billion. The comparable amounts of new obligational authority are $6.3 billion for fiscal year 1962 and $6 billion for fiscal rect budget plan which indicates the total obligational aumparable amounts are $7.14 billion for fiscal year 1963; scal yen 1962; and $6.36 billion in fiscal year 1961. a comparable basis under this title in fiscal $6.6 billion compared with $6 billion in llion in fiscal year 1961. In terms of which is perhaps the best measure of n fiscal year, the fiscal year 1963 oblillion compared with $6.4 billion in cal year 1961. onsonance with the stated desires reviously separately identified in rted the research and developD.T. & E. account. For budget |