Statement on the Strategic Defense Initiative by Lt Gen George L. Monahan, Jr.,before the Subcommittee on Research Development, HASC, 101st Congress

摘要

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, I am pleased to appear before youtoday to speak in support of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) budget request and to answer any questions you may have about the program. The SDl program is in its sixth full year of research to determine the feasibility of effective defenses against ballistic missiles, and we continue to make excellent progress across a broad range of technologies. During FY 1989 we conducted a record number of major experiments and tests crucial to program success. We will break that record in FY 1990 and, with your support, surpass it in FY 1991. The growing number of tests and paper experiments demonstrates that the program is movi ng away from paper feasibility studies, laboratory work and infrastructure development which characterized prior years. We are now moving into the testing of hardware, thus capitalizing on SDI investments. I shall discuss some of the more important program developments later in my statement.