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                            WASHINGTON. D.C. Z~
                                                            L 107362,

   B-146864                              September 29, 1978
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by the O tice ot Congreaeaaia RalAtIon3.
   The Honorable John C. Stennis
   Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense
   Committee on Appropriations
   United States Senate

   Dear Mr. Chairman:

        This is in response to the request of your staff to advise
   you of the results to date of our review of the development of
   military and civil agency nontactical secure voice systems.
   This same information is being sent to the Chairman of the
   Subcommittee on Defense, House Appropriations Committee.

   BACKGROUCND

        Both the Department of Defense (DOD) and North Atlantic
   Treaty Organization (NATO) are planning and developing mili-
   tary tactical and nonractical secure voice systems. The
   DOD systems are planned- for use in the 1980s and beyond.
   Also, U.S. Government civil agencies are developing a secure
   voice system for use during the same time period. Rather than
   seeking economies and flexibility through use of widely avail-
   able narrowband oriented commercial and Government telephone
   networks for the U.S. nontactical military system, DOD has
   sought 'directu (as opposed to *acceptable) interoperability
   with wideband tactical systems. Therefore, DOD has applied
   tactical. philosophies, technology, and standards in defining
   r.=e.alreaments and system planning for its ncntactical secure
   voice system.

        The House and Senate Appropriations Committees directed,
    in their fiscal year 1978 appropriations reports, that a
    single narrowband nontactical secure voice system be developed
    as a ccmmon-user system, rather than continuing with the
    development of a wideband defense system and a separate
    narrowba i civil system.

        Based on subsequent reevaluations, DocD proposed a hybrid--
   predcminately narrowband for the Continental United States
   =CCNUS) and predcminatelv wideband for overseas--nontactical
   system concept at =he fiscal year :979 appropriations hearings.

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