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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Pages 97-121
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Main topics include details of the President's announcement, initial guidance from higher headquarters, various concepts under consideration, issues to be resolved, the organization of the Ballistic Missile Office, contractual requirements, work in progress, future efforts, and ways in which the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology could help the Air Force.
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But due to the threat evolution and due to technology that has come about in the past years with the increased yield of Soviet weapons, as well as the accuracy that they are now going to experience or are projected to experience, deep basing is being looked at in a new light and has indeed very much promise to provide us a very survivable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) force.
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Jim Wooster earlier described the "Mesa" base concept, with a perimeter tunnel going all the way around the mesa, horizontal tunnels spaced approximately l0 miles apart, and predug egress portals that approach a steep slope ideally, and are approximately 4,000 feet apart. Again, the entire system, as I recall, was approximately 2,600 feet beneath the surface.
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What was done is to take the theoretical data that exists and, assuming that it was just going to be a one-time surface burst, for instance, the 240-megaton case could be really a combination of 24 l0-megaton weapons that go off simultaneously. We have done a rough calculation, and the concepts that we have looked at really fall in the range between 2,000 feet and, in the case of the Pencil Pusher concept, about 5,000 feet, and we can see the function of how deep do we really have to go.
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We are working very carefully with the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) , as well as the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, to find out how hard we can actually make these tunnels and whether they can withstand the current threat as well as responsive threats.
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. I mentioned before that the Ballistic Missile Office does have charge of the deep basing team, and that at Norton we have both the Ballistic Missile Office and the Air Force Regional Civil Engineer.
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, and then of course we have the entire BMO organization and the Air Force Regional Civil Engineer (AFRCE) associated with the Corps of Engineers to support us with construction plans, costs, the environmental impact analysis process, the siting work and the base comprehensive plans.
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Next week we expect to have a briefing at Norton Air Force Base for potential bidders, those that responded to the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) , as well as other invited contractors.
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COL. RULE: Construction validation, I think, is one of the initial activities that the Air Force Regional Civil Engineer and the Corps of Engineers will be involved in.
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The initial operational capability date of l989 will give you some measure as to when we have to begin the construction. Some of these concepts that we have looked at take on the order of maybe six or seven years to construct, normally.
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The long-term solution -- for l989 and beyond -- is going to be deep basing, the ballistic missile defense, the continuous-patrol aircraft, or in some mixture. It could be one or the other.
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agan'» Announcement 2 OCT 1981 • DEVELOP AND PRODUCE 100 MX MISSILES • DEPLOY SOME MISSILES INITIALLY IN SILOS • PURSUE LONG-TERM OPTIONS • AIR MOBILE • BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE • DEEP UNDERGROUND BASING • SELECT LONG-TERM BASING MODE ISI IN 1984 FIGURE 2
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MINES 3 • • • • R • 8 • * FACILITY TYP€ ARSENAL DI$TRIBUTED COMMPOST DEEP $ILO COMM SY$ • « • • « • • (SHALL R « • • « COMMENTS NATIONAL NEED FOR ADDITIONAL (TO NOHAD & SITE Rl DEEP BASED FACILITIES NOT YET ESTABLISHED TECHNOLOGY NOSV AVAILABLE FOR LARGE UNDERGROUND FACILITY CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION COST AND POTENTIAL BENEFITS SIGNIFICANT ost Initial OSD Guidance • INITIATE CONCEPT DEFINITION/VALIDATION • SIZE FOR 50 -100 MX OR EQUIVALENT • POST ATTACK ENDURANCE OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR • RAPID EGRESS DESIRABLE BUT NOT MANDATORY • MILESTONE II FY 84 • IOC 1989 • PROGRAM PLAN JAN 82 FIGURE 5
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ll9 Deep Ba •ing - Preliminary ••timali CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS FY82 - FY84 • SYSTEM SUPPORT • POWER • HEAT SINK • COMMUNICATIONS • EGRESS STUDY A DEMO • CONSTRUCTION VALIDATION • SITE SCREENING • SITE CHARACTERIZATION • ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT • BASE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FIGURE 18 Advanced Development Program MAJOR MILESTONE SCHEDULE FY 82 FY 83 FY 84 PROGRAM DIRECTION CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION AND SCREENING PROGRAM PLAN DEVELOPMENT SITING CONTRACTS SCREENING SITE CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM SUPPORT CONTRACT (SI EGRESS TECHNOLOGY CONTRACTS (SI CONSTRUCTION VALIDATION CONTRACT SURVIVABILITY PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVENESS MODEL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES DSARC II FIGURE 19 CBD CBD CBD •o •O FEJS
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xt 7 • YOUR THOUGHTS WOULD BE HELPFUL • PRELIMINARY PROGRAM PLAN • CONTRACT APPROACHES • COST ESTIMATES • SITING CRITERIA/SCREENING • USE OF EXISTING UNDERGROUND SPACE • EGRESS • MECHANIZED MINING • CONSTRUCTION VALIDATION • FUTURE INVOLVEMENT POSSIBILITIES • NEWSLETTER • MAGAZINE • ADVISORY GROUP • SPECIALIZED CONSULT ING FIGURE 23
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