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DOCUMENT FESUME
03683 - [B2854100]
(Alternative to Project Seafarer]. LCD-77-260; B-184833. October
7, 1977. Released October 14, 1977. 5 pp.
Report to Rep. Thilip E. Ruppe; by Fred J. Shafer, Director,
Logistics and Ccmmunications Div.
Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management (700)
Contact: Logistics and Communicaticns Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: repartment of Defense -
Military (exept procurement & contracts) (051); General
Science, Space, and Technology: Telecommunlcati- ns 4nd Radio
Frequency Spectrum Use (258).
Organizaticn Concerned: Department of the Navy; Department of
Defense.
Congressional Relev nce: Rep. Philip E. Ruppe.
Authority: S. Rept. 95-129. S. Rept. 95-325.
The Navy is consiaering as an alternative to the
proposed Michigan Seafarer a combined system of the present
Wisconsin Test Facility and the proposed test facility for the
Michigan Seafarer. The full-scale Michigan Seafarer as presently
planned would use 2,400 miles of cable in a 4,000 squarce-mile
area and would include the proposed K. I. Sawyer test facility.
The Wisconsin Test Facility, at Clam Lake in northern Wisconsin,
consists of a ccntrcl center, a transmissicn station, two
14-mile cables aboveground, and one 14-mile cable underground.
In present operations, only the abcveground cables are used in
transmissions. The test facility proposed for the Michigan
Seafarer consists of a control center and a transmission
station, with an antenna of one 54-mile east-west cable and two
(33-mile and 49-mile) north-south underground cablep.
Findings/ConclLsioDs: The alternative under consieration would
not require expanding this facility, but the Navy woild improve
its quality and reliability by replacing the cables and
operating with all three cables. All but about 5 miles of these
cables would be locate& either on rublic lands or along existing
rights-of-way. In comparison with the nroposed full-scale
Michigan Seafarer, the performance poteitial cf the alternative
is not as effective; however, the Navy considers it adequate for
the basic needs. The estimated range of the alternative is less
than the Michigan Seafarer's, but would cover areas that the
Navy considers vital. The Navy estimates the ccsts of the
alternative to be $250-1300 million, compared to about $590
million for the Michigan Seafarer. Of this amount, about $110
million is for the further research and deveicpsment required
wherever an extremely low frequency system is located, about $56
million for receivers, and the remainder is for building thp
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