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Army Force Protection Equipment for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom i [H.A.S.C. No. 110–6] ARMY FORCE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT FOR OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM HEARING BEFORE THE AIR AND LAND FORCES SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION HEARING HELD JANUARY 18, 2007 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 37–306 WASHINGTON : 2008 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 22-MAR-2001 07:23 Jan 07, 2008 Jkt 037306 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5012 Sfmt 5012 C:\DOCS\110-6\018250.000 HNS1 PsN: HNS1 AIR AND LAND FORCES SUBCOMMITTEE NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii, Chairman SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas JIM SAXTON, New Jersey SILVESTRE REYES, Texas HOWARD P. ‘‘BUCK’’ MCKEON, California ADAM SMITH, Washington JEFF MILLER, Florida MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina JOE WILSON, South Carolina ELLEN O. TAUSCHER, California FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania TOM COLE, Oklahoma JIM MARSHALL, Georgia ROB BISHOP, Utah DAN BOREN, Oklahoma MICHAEL TURNER, Ohio HANK JOHNSON, Georgia CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan JOE SESTAK, Pennsylvania PHIL GINGREY, Georgia GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, Washington KENDRICK B. MEEK, Florida GEOFF DAVIS, Kentucky KATHY CASTOR, Florida W. TODD AKIN, Missouri JESSE TOLLESON, Professional Staff Member DOUGLAS BUSH, Professional Staff Member JOHN WASON, Professional Staff Member BENJAMIN KOHR, Staff Assistant (II) VerDate 22-MAR-2001 07:23 Jan 07, 2008 Jkt 037306 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\110-6\018250.000 HNS1 PsN: HNS1 C O N T E N T S CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HEARINGS 2007 Page HEARING: Thursday, January 18, 2007, Army Force Protection Equipment for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom ............................................. 1 APPENDIX: Thursday, January 18, 2007 ................................................................................... 53 THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2007 ARMY FORCE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT FOR OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM STATEMENTS PRESENTED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS Abercrombie, Hon. Neil, a Representative from Hawaii, Chairman, Air and Land Forces Subcommittee ................................................................................. 1 Saxton, Hon. Jim, a Representative from New Jersey, Ranking Member, Air and Land Forces Subcommittee ................................................................... 3 WITNESSES Buhrkuhl, Dr. Robert L., Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics); Capt. Joseph McGettigan, Commanding Officer Naval Surface Warfare De- sign Center; Philip E. Coyle, III, Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Infor- mation, Former Director, Operational Test and Development, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Ray Dubois, Jr., Senior Advisor, Center for Stra- tegic and International Studies, beginning on page .......................................... 37 Speakes, Lt. Gen. Stephen M., Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G–8; and Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sorenson, Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Manage- ment, Assistant Secretary of the Army, Acquisition, Logistics and Tech- nology, accompanied by Sgt. First Class Christopher Jones and Spec. Robert Vanderkarr beginning on page ........................................................................... 5 APPENDIX PREPARED STATEMENTS: Abercrombie, Hon. Neil .................................................................................... 57 Buhrkuhl, Dr. Robert L. ................................................................................... 70 Coyle, Philip E., III .......................................................................................... 78 Lt. Gen. Stephen M. Speakes joint with Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sorenson ..... 59 DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD: Analysis of Alternatives Data .......................................................................... 83 (III) VerDate 22-MAR-2001 07:23 Jan 07, 2008 Jkt 037306 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\110-6\018250.000 HNS1 PsN: HNS1 IV Page QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD: Mr. Abercrombie ............................................................................................... 87 Mr. Castor ......................................................................................................... 95 Ms. Giffords ....................................................................................................... 96 Mr. LoBiondo .................................................................................................... 96 Mr. McKeon ....................................................................................................... 95 Mr. Ortiz ........................................................................................................... 94 Mr. Reyes .......................................................................................................... 97 VerDate 22-MAR-2001 07:23 Jan 07, 2008 Jkt 037306 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\110-6\018250.000 HNS1 PsN: HNS1 ARMY FORCE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT FOR OPER- ATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, AIR AND LAND FORCES SUBCOMMITTEE, Washington, DC, Thursday, January 18, 2007. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2:13 p.m. in room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Neil Abercrombie (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. NEIL ABERCROMBIE, A REP- RESENTATIVE FROM HAWAII, CHAIRMAN, AIR AND LAND FORCES SUBCOMMITTEE Mr. ABERCROMBIE. Hello, everybody. Thank you very much for coming today and being with us. This is a hearing on the Army force protection programs in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Just by way of introduction, this will be my first time chairing, and I have the privilege of serving with a Ranking Member, Jim Saxton of New Jersey. I hope I handle this all right. I certainly had good lessons from a worthy mentor, a good friend, and a valued col- league in Jim Saxton. As luck and happenstance would have it, I served as Ranking Member to Mr. Saxton, both here on the Armed Services Committee, and in the Natural Resources, the Interior Committee, and in the process learned what I hope will enable me to carry through it at this end on the chairman dais this time. But absent the friendship and encouragement of Mr. Saxton, I don’t think I would be quite ready to handle the job, and, Jim, I hope I can only do as good a job as you have done all the way through. The Air and Land Forces Subcommittee continues on its ongoing review of force protection issues, started under our previous Chair- man Curt Weldon, where I had the honor to serve as Ranking Member. And today we are going to address vehicle armor, person- nel armor and Active Protection Systems, the APS. Having said that, I will ask our guests today to—when they get to the infamous acronyms of one kind or another, because not ev- eryone in the audience will be familiar with it or at ease with the acronyms, and because I believe it may be being broadcast as well at some juncture to a wider audience, if when we come up with things like APS, Active Protective Systems, protection systems, that we say what it is that we are talking about on the basis of maximizing our capacity for people to understand us. We will have testimony from two distinguished panels of wit- nesses. The first panel will involve our Army vehicle and body (1) VerDate 22-MAR-2001 07:23 Jan 07, 2008 Jkt 037306 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 C:\DOCS\110-6\018250.000 HNS1 PsN: HNS1 2 armor program, the second panel the active protective systems. Representing the Army on panel number one will be Lieutenant General Stephen Speakes, who is the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army G–8; Major General Jeffrey Sorenson, the Deputy for Acqui- sition and Systems Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. Force protection is a top priority for this committee. Nearly 108,000 Army active duty and Reserve component personnel are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan as we speak. An additional 17,500 Army personnel are planned for deployment under the ad- ministration’s new plan. Regardless of one’s point of view on the war, with 70 percent of the casualties resulting from improvised ex- plosive devices, the infamous IEDs, vehicle and personnel armor are critically important. The subcommittee expects to learn today how vehicle and person- nel armoring initiatives are performing in theater, how vehicles and armor are being produced in field and in an expedient manner, how vehicles and armor have been upgraded to address evolving threats, and how well the industrial base is prepared to meet the possible surge in theater troop requirements. I have come to realize since I first put these words down that the word ‘‘surge,’’ at least in some instances of media consumption, has taken on a pejorative connotation or a political connotation. I want to emphasize at this point, utilizing this example, that does not take place in this subcommittee. It never did when Mr. Saxton was Chairman of any committee that I was privileged to serve with him on, and I can assure you it is not going to happen here. I use that word simply because I think it is something the general public un- derstands
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