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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania, Chairman NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia TODD TIAHRT, Kansas MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio JACK KINGSTON, Georgia ALLEN BOYD, Florida KAY GRANGER, Texas STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Obey, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Lewis, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. PAUL JUOLA, GREG LANKLER, SARAH YOUNG, LINDA PAGELSEN, PAUL TERRY, KRIS MALLARD, ADAM HARRIS, ANN REESE, BROOKE BOYER, TIM PRINCE, MATT WASHINGTON, B G WRIGHT, CHRIS WHITE, CELES HUGHES, and ADRIENNE RAMSAY, Staff Assistants SHERRY L. YOUNG, Administrative Aide PART 3 Page Africom ....................................................................................... 1 Navy and Marine Corps Military Personnel ..................... 57 Combat Aircraft Acquisition ................................................. 167 Army Aviation Programs ....................................................... 223 Shipbuilding Programs .......................................................... 273 Missile Defense Agency .......................................................... 329 Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Budget Overview Hearing ................................................................ 413 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:47 May 22, 2010 Jkt 055951 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\56285P1.XXX 56285P1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with HEARING-P1 PART 3—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:47 May 22, 2010 Jkt 055951 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\56285P1.XXX 56285P1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with HEARING-P1 with DSKB9S0YB1PROD on smartinez DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania, Chairman NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio TODD TIAHRT, Kansas ROBERT E. ‘‘BUD’’ CRAMER, JR., Alabama ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi ALLEN BOYD, Florida JACK KINGSTON, Georgia STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Obey, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Lewis, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. PAUL JUOLA, GREG LANKLER, SARAH YOUNG, LINDA PAGELSEN, PAUL TERRY, KRIS MALLARD, ADAM HARRIS, ANN REESE, BROOKE BOYER, TIM PRINCE, MATT WASHINGTON, B G WRIGHT, CHRIS WHITE, CELES HUGHES, and ADRIENNE RAMSAY, Staff Assistants SHERRY L. YOUNG, Administrative Aide PART 3 Page Africom ....................................................................................... 1 Navy and Marine Corps Military Personnel ..................... 57 Combat Aircraft Acquisition ................................................. 167 Army Aviation Programs ....................................................... 223 Shipbuilding Programs .......................................................... 273 Missile Defense Agency .......................................................... 329 Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Budget Overview Hearing ................................................................ 413 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 56–285 WASHINGTON : 2010 VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:47 May 22, 2010 Jkt 055951 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\56285P1.XXX 56285P1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with HEARING-P1 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington JERRY LEWIS, California ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia NITA M. LOWEY, New York JACK KINGSTON, Georgia JOSE´ E. SERRANO, New York RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut Jersey JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia TODD TIAHRT, Kansas JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts ZACH WAMP, Tennessee ED PASTOR, Arizona TOM LATHAM, Iowa DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama CHET EDWARDS, Texas JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island KAY GRANGER, Texas MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas SAM FARR, California MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana ALLEN BOYD, Florida JOHN R. CARTER, Texas CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey KEN CALVERT, California SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia JO BONNER, Alabama MARION BERRY, Arkansas STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio BARBARA LEE, California TOM COLE, Oklahoma ADAM SCHIFF, California MICHAEL HONDA, California BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota STEVE ISRAEL, New York TIM RYAN, Ohio C.A. ‘‘DUTCH’’ RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida CIRO RODRIGUEZ, Texas LINCOLN DAVIS, Tennessee JOHN T. SALAZAR, Colorado PATRICK J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania BEVERLY PHETO, Clerk and Staff Director (II) VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:47 May 22, 2010 Jkt 055951 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 7513 Sfmt 7513 E:\HR\OC\56285P1.XXX 56285P1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with HEARING-P1 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2010 THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009. AFRICOM WITNESSES GENERAL WILLIAM E. WARD, USA COMMANDER, UNITED STATES AF- RICA COMMAND MARY PLEFFNER, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE JERRY LANIER, DEPARTMENT OF STATE OPENING STATEMENT Mr. BISHOP. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. This morning the committee will hold a hearing regarding the United States Africa Command, AFRICOM. We are pleased to welcome General William Ward, AFRICOM’s com- mander. General, thank you for your service, and thank you for being here this morning. You have had a long and distinguished career. I will just say to the committee that I was extremely proud to be able to witness the excitement when you received your four stars. So it is a very special privilege to have you here and to welcome you to the subcommittee. With AFRICOM fully functional for 6 months, this hearing offers a timely opportunity for the subcommittee to get an update on how the stand-up of this new command is progressing and on the chal- lenges and opportunities it is confronting in Africa. For too long, the United States has paid Africa very little atten- tion, focusing on the continent only long enough to respond to cri- ses. Within the Department of Defense, the responsibility for Africa has heretofore been divided among three separate commands: Eu- ropean Command, Central Command and Pacific Command. With everyone responsible for Africa, no one was responsible for Africa. U.S. attention to the continent has been uneven, inconsistent and poorly organized to adequately anticipate, prevent, or respond to the crises on the continent. Africa occupies about 31⁄2 times the size of the land area of the Continental United States. It is home to nearly 900 million people and 53 nations. It is rich in human and natural resources, and Af- rica’s strategic importance has never been more obvious than it is today, a fact that the United States has been somewhat late in rec- ognizing. Over the last decade, China, Iran and al Qaeda have all made significant and growing investments in Africa. It is in this context (1) VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:39 May 22, 2010 Jkt 056285 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 E:\HR\OC\B285P2.XXX B285P2 tjames on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with HEARING 2 that AFRICOM was conceived to create one unified command, to maintain a consistent focus, and to coordinate DOD policy toward the vast and increasingly important continent. But AFRICOM, the debut of the Africa Command, has not gone smoothly. First, in the context of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a lack of out- reach to African leaders allowed suspicion to grow with potential African partners who feared that AFRICOM was the first step to- ward the establishment of a large, permanent U.S. troop presence on the continent. Not surprisingly, only one African nation, Liberia, publicly expressed its willingness to host AFRICOM’s head- quarters, which are still located in Stuttgart, Germany. No govern- ment agreed to host any one of the five regional integration teams—the small, lightly staffed mini-headquarters that would have allowed AFRICOM to maintain closer, more consistent contact with African leadership. Second, unfortunately, the Rumsfeld Pentagon declared that AFRICOM would be taking the lead on all U.S. policy toward Afri- ca. That was a stance that was not only untrue, but it was also unhelpful in persuading the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to share with AFRICOM the advice and expertise that AFRICOM has sought from those interagency partners. Finally, AFRICOM’s purpose, mission and organization were not adequately explained to this

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