Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002, Vol. 7: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 1416 Every us. Nuclear warhead requires tritium to function as designed. Because tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, decays at the rate of percent per year, it must be periodically replenished within each nuclear warhead. We have not pro duced tritium since 1988, and our inventory, depending on the results of the Strate gic Defense Review, is sufficient only until approximately 2005, after which time the 5-year tritium reserve we maintain may begin to be drawn down. In May 1999, the Department announced that tva commercial light water reactors would be used to produce tritium, and that accelerator production of tritium (apt) technology would be developed as backup, by completing preliminary design and engineering develop ment and demonstration activities. A 30-year interagency agreement with tva went into effect on January 1, 2000, making three of its reactors, Watts Bar and Sequoyah 1 and 2, available to begin irradiation of tritium production absorber rods, as early as October 2003. This month, tva submitted a request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (nrc) to amend its operating license for the Watts Bar and Sequoyah reactors, to permit ir radiation of tritium producing absorber rods. The nrc committed to expediting the approval of these requests. On July 27, 2000, ground was broken for the new Tritium Extraction Facility (tef) at the Savannah River Site and, during fiscal year 2001, site preparation and detailed design for the facility is expected to be completed. Originally, construction of tef was to have begun in early fiscal year 1999, but language in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1999 prohibited any tritium construction activities during fiscal year 1999. Because of this delay in schedule, we project that the tef will not begin delivering tritium gas from irradiated absorber rods until February 2006. Depending on the results of the Strategic Defense Review, about 1 year of the 5-year tritium reserve may be consumed. The capacity of tef to extract tritium from the absorber rods will be sufficient to restore the reserve, within 2 to 3 years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002, Vol. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate; Seapower, April 4, 26, June 7, July 31, 2001 The quality and completion of design is proving to be superior and is resulting in far less rework than otherwise would be the case. Concurrent with the design process, the Avondale Alliance has reduced total program life cycle costs by more than billion, and that is a Navy estimate, one with which we in industry concur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002, Vol. 4: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session; Airland We are behind in testing right now, but we are not going to rush testing. Late aircraft deliveries are the principal reason we are behind in our testing schedule. This has impacted our ability to start Dedicated Initial Operational Test and Eval nation (diot&e) as originally planned in August 2002. While the Air Force is fully committed to cost control, we will not rush the start of diot&e. As the table below illustrates, we lost valuable testing time due to late aircraft deliveries. In some cases, aircraft first flight dates slipped by more than a year, placing increased pres sure on the test program. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002, Vol. 6: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 1416 The subcommittee meets today to receive testimony regarding recruitment and retention of military personnel within the Department of Defense and the military services. This hearing is a followup to our February 24, 2000 hearing on this same subject. I asked for this hearing in order to discuss the innovative ideas to enhance recruiting and retention, those ideas that you are pursuing and those that you may be considering. I also want to get an update on the current status of the services recruiting and retention achievements as compared to your goals and to predictions that each of you made for fiscal year 2001 during our hearing on February 24. The fact that we have devoted five hearings over the past 4 years to recruiting and retention reflects the priority we assign to this issue. Despite tremendous efforts on behalf of recruiters, the recruiting chiefs, the personnel chiefs, the Department of Defense, and Congress, we re just now beginning to reverse the trends that we've seen over recent years in recruiting. The military services must be able to recruit the best and brightest young Americans to serve in the military. I do not have to remind our witnesses today we re experiencing one of the most challenging times in recruiting the highest quality young men and women. As this hearing is a continuation of a series of hearings examining the recruiting and retention programs, I want to urge our witnesses to speak with utmost candor, and share common goals in the interest of men and women serving our Nation. Working together I am confident that we can take the necessary steps to preserve the finest military system in the world. Senator Cleland has been delayed and when he arrives well give him an opportunity to make an opening statement. Senator Allard, would you like to make an opening statement? Following your remarks, I will insert for the record the opening statement of Senator Strom Thurmond. Statement Of Senator Wayne Allard Senator Allard. Mr. Chairman, thank you, just a brief comment, if I may. This is the first Personnel Subcommittee hearing of the year and now Ill tell you, you are to be congratulated, Mr. Chairman, for moving on to your second chair. I want to congratulate you on the hard work and I look forward to working with you in the coming year. Now, while I'm extending congratulations, I would like to praise the military recruiting commands. I know that 1999 was a bad year for many of your commands and through hard work recruiting has much improved all around. I want to congratulate you on your hard effort in that regard. These hearings, I think, Mr. Chairman, serve as a good bellwether for the Armed Services Committee. Two years ago we were in recruiting and retention paralysis because of pay, benefits, and quality of life issues. We were later able to substantially address those matters with passage of Senate Bill 4 at that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002, Vol. 3: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 1416 Senator inhofe. Also, Colonel Wright, I am going to ask each one of you to try to keep your statement to about 3 minutes, and then your entire statement will be inserted in the record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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