European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 House panels travel request refused Pentagon reportedly irked at chairman Washington a when Congress begins its August recess this dozens of senators and representatives will be winging overseas in military aircraft on what critics Call junkets and members refer to As fac finding but John and members of his powerful Energy and Commerce committee wont be enjoying any taxpayer financed the Pentagon wont give them an the department of defense lobbying office wrote to Dingell on july 12 to say that it was rejecting his travel request due to heavy demand for military transportation during the recess but Dennis who was scheduled to go on the and some of the committee say there is another reason Dingell Success in exposing Pentagon procurement abuses and helping Cut military spending re they pulled the Eckart a Friend of mine on the House armed services com Mittee said the Pentagon explained to him they we rent Happy with the Way Dingell was treating who says this is the first time in his 30 years in Congress that Hes seen a committee chairman travel request denied by the int assigning any direct he this is the first time i have seen the stars in the heavens in this particular the sequence of events is the trip planned by Dingell would have been a 27day excursion to the soviet Czecho Yugoslavia and its purpose was to explore developments in Energy transportation and medical we had Early Assurance we had a Dingell Mike the committees staff added people were very this was be fore Dingell began discussing the procurement problems with general dynamics on the in a series of hearings last Dingell made Public that the defense contractor had charged taxpayers for such executive benefits As country club dues and Ken Nel fees for after House budget committee chairman William Gray succeeded earlier this year in slashing the pentagons spending he said that the Dingell hearings were the shot in the Back of the pentagons Alt is not possible to accurately predict the number of missions supported prior to the Pentagon said the associated press asked the Pentagon press of fice to provide a list of which congressional committees were getting aircraft for August trips and which had had their requests the response said in part the department of defense makes every Effort to support every con Gressional request for military aircraft subject Only to aircraft because of fre quent changes in travel it is not possible to accurately predict the number of missions supported prior to when asked How officials knew there want a plane available for Dingell panel and what criteria were used to determine which groups get an the press office its the department of defences policy that we do not discuss congressional requests for mostly air Force but some Navy Are assigned by the defense with the individual services delegated to serve As the official escorts to congressional the air Force said it has been asked by the Penta gon to escort the House foreign affairs committee to Central the House armed services commit tee to the the House select committee on narcotics abuse to South America and House majority Leader Jim to the army said its escort list involved the Senate leadership and four House panels foreign agriculture and ways and the destinations were not the Navy has the busiest schedule John Cha Jeff and Carl will travel to the soviet Union Phil to Korea and the Philippines Rudy to Europe Robert to Ethiopia and Robert to reviewing these Kitzmiller and Eckart say in Competition for a House and Senate leaders and the armed services committees clearly out rank Dingell in the unofficial pecking but Eckart insists that John outranks some of these its interesting that even just a select committee would get an aircraft Over a standing com Mittee considered by everyone to be one of the pre Blu ribbon committees of does Dingell think he outranks some of the people getting planes that would be my assume he Eckart predicts that the plane dispute will linger John is not known to forget things he i  be surprised if defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger int asked to testify sometime soon on procurement Navy Supply system May be open to theft officers say aging computers Are partly to blame Baltimore a top Navy sup ply officers say there worried that their aging computer systems May have made the Supply system vulnerable to insider according to mondays Baltimore but the newspaper said the who spoke Only on the condition that they not be quoted by did not think any Classi fied missile spare parts were lost in an alleged theft ring that was disclosed seven including two Navy enlisted men and a civilian Navy warehouse were arrested As part of an alleged ring that stole spare parts of Phoenix mis Siles and f14 fighters to ship them to attorney Phillip Halpern alleged that ring members had tapped into the navys Supply the officers said the current computer system dates Back to the when there was Little development or consideration of computer Security the Sun they do not believe there is a problem with outsiders getting into the but they Are concerned about those who have authorization to use the according to the modernization of the naval Supply sys tems come computer operations is under but is not expected to be completed for several there is no question that a worldwide manual system can be ripped off in a High ranking officer told the i suspect in Days past we were being stolen the officer in the com Puter we Are at our most vulnerable Point right the Patchwork of aging and often incompatible computers in the system has been changed so much that now no body knows what is going on inside the the officer told the when someone orders a Coffeepot with the right number and we Send him a set of we know something is the officer the which manages some 16 Mil lion Supply transactions a has an inventory Worth about the Supply system dispenses spare parts and what Are called consumable items through regional centers and other Navy the House armed services committee is expected to have hearings in september on the systems Security and its supercomputer wont bar any approved researchers a officials at a supercomputer Complex under construction Here have refused a state department suggestion to bar some foreigners from using the million the centers financial officer chinese and other foreign nationals will be permitted to use the supercomputer at the John von Neu Mann Center for scientific computing when the federally funded Caber 205 becomes operational Early next Allen Sinisgalli said the Center has temporarily refused to comply with a state department request to limit Access to nationals of some Sinisgalli state department officials tried to insert the request last Spring in a contract Between the Center and the National science Sinisgalli the foundation is funding four supercomputers around the Sinisgalli machines also will be located at Cornell University in the University of Illi Nois at Champaign Urbana and at a san based consortium headed by the general dynamics the 100 times faster than today conventional will be available to academic and commercial Sinisgalli the times More powerful than Home can store As much information As the Library of Congress and transmit the equivalent of pages a the nations Only other supercomputers Are restricted to defense department communist countries dont have Access to supermom Sinisgalli officials at each Center have turned Down the state department choosing to wait until the president or Congress rules on Access to the new Breed of we would be Good of and comply with whatever the Law Sinisgalli the state department does not fear what illicit users might get out of the since they would contain no restricted he the government fears that hostile users might gain an advantage simply by learning to use the powerful theres a lot of National Security sensitive Type things that can be done with a said Michael special assistant to undersecretary of state Wil Liam Schneider we think the soviets could gain certain insights by using these Marks but Sinisgalli said use of the new computers will be limited to scientists screened by several users will be Given an Access code to log on for a specified the computer will be available to approved researchers regardless of Sinisgalli the nationality of the users is not an Issue at academic he there should be no restriction on the people who come Sinisgalli said he imagines that foreign agents have More sophisticated ways to get information than sneaking into a publicly operated computer if i were a i dont think id do it that he the computer Complex is backed by an association of 12 including Princeton and