10. U.S. Air Force selected acquisition report on the F-111A/D/ 11. General conclusions and recommendations of the F-111 Struc- tural Evaluation Ad Hoc Committee's Review of Primary Structural Goods, Phase II Report, April 4, 1967___ 12A. Minutes of the first F-111 Aerodynamics Consulting Group 411, 456 377 363 Appears on page (*) 12C. Minutes of the third F-111 Aerodynamics Consulting Group meeting, January 14, 15, and 16, 1964. 13. Summary of NASA support of the F-111 development pro- 16. Accident comparison chart of eight military aircraft 17B. F-111B progress report dated February 5, 1964, from Chief, TFX CONTRACT INVESTIGATION (Second Series) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1970 U.S. SENATE, PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 3302, New Senate Office Building, pursuant to Senate Resolution 308, agreed to February 16, 1970, Senator John L. McClellan (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Members of the subcommittee present: Senator John L. McClellan, Democrat, Arkansas; Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat, Washington; Senator Lee Metcalf, Democrat, Montana; and Senator Edward J. Gurney, Republican, Florida. Members of the professional staff present: Jerome S. Adlerman, general counsel; John J. Walsh, investigator; John Brick, investigator; Charles H. Cromwell, III, investigator; Philip W. Morgan, chief counsel to the minority; Thomas E. Nunnally, accountant; and Ruth Y. Watt, chief clerk. The CHAIRMAN. The subcommittee will be in order. (Members of the subcommittee present at time of reconvening: Senators McClellan and Gurney.) The CHAIRMAN. Call the next witness. Mr. ADLERMAN. General O'Neill. The CHAIRMAN. General, are the others going to testify with you? Lieutenant General O'NEILL. Yes, sir; they are. The CHAIRMAN. You will each be sworn. You and each of you do solemnly swear that the evidence you shall give before this Senate subcommittee shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Lieutenant General O'NEILL. I do. Brigadier General ESPOSITO. I do. Colonel BUCKINGHAM. I do. TESTIMONY OF LT. GEN. JOHN W. O'NEILL, BRIG. GEN. ALFRED L. ESPOSITO, COL. CHARLES E. BUCKINGHAM, AND TRISTAN J. KEATING The CHAIRMAN. General, will you please identify yourself for the record? Lieutenant General O'NEILL. I am Lt. Gen. John W. O'Neill, U.S. Air Force, Vice Commander of the Air Force Systems Command. Brigadier General ESPOSITO. I am Brig. Gen. Alfred L. Esposito, Program Director for the F-111 program. The CHAIRMAN. Colonel? Colonel BUCKINGHAM. I am Charles E. Buckingham, from the Office of Deputy Chief of Staff, research and development, headquarters USAF. Mr. KEATING. I am Tristan J. Keating. I am the systems engineering director of the F-111 program office. The CHAIRMAN. Very well. Thank you. General, I have your biography. Have you a copy of it before you? Lieutenant General O'NEILL. Yes, sir; I do. The CHAIRMAN. Would you let that be inserted in the record, please, at this point? It will not be necessary to have you read it. Let it be printed in the record at this point. (The biography follows:) BIOGRAPHY OF LT. GEN. JOHN W. O'NEILL Lieutenant General John W. O'Neill was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Boston University in 1940 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He was assigned to Ft. Devens, Massachusetts, and later with the First Infantry Division in Massachusetts and Florida. He earned his pilot's wings in 1942 and served as a B-29 combat crew pilot and squadron commander in the South Pacific. Following World War II, he participated in the first peacetime A-bomb test at Bikini as Operations Officer and pilot of the command aircraft. He earned a master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1950-1951 and later was graduated from the Air War College. In the following years, General O'Neill served in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, Europe and California. In California, he held key positions in the development of Air Force ballistic missiles from 1958-1961, after which he was assigned to the Office of the Director of Defense, Research and Engineering, Office of the Secretary of Defense. In July 1964, General O'Neill became Commander of Electronic Systems Division at L. G. Hanscom Field, Massachusetts. He held this position until July 1967 when he assumed command of the newly formed Space and Missile Systems Organization, Los Angeles, California. General O'Neill was appointed Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command (AFSC), Andrews AFB, Maryland, effective September 1, 1969. His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun second class. He is married to the former Dorothea M. Howley of Arlington, Massachusetts. They have six children, two daughters, Janice and Kathleen, and four sons, Brian, Stephen, Michael and Peter. The CHAIRMAN. General, do you have a prepared statement? The CHAIRMAN. Before we proceed with your statement and interrogation thereafter, I would like to bring up a matter and have it cleared up. First, I would like to call your attention to the charts which are on display here, to which I direct your attention, charts that refer to the Navy plane and the Air Force plane with respect to their specified performance versus actual capability. Our testimony yesterday, I believe, showed that these charts were taken from testimony given before the Appropriations Committee last October. |