European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes sunday May 13,1990 Star wars Jet takes first test flight Seattle apr a Boeing 767 military Jet outlined with a Star wars sensor designed to scan Large areas of space and simultaneously track hundreds of targets took its first test flight Friday. The modified 767 carried the world s most sophisticated Long wave infrared sensor on a six hour lest flight about 45,000 feet above several Western states. A Crew of 17 Boeing and Hughes aircraft co. Personnel checked How in flight vibration and sound will of acct the sensor. The sensor is contained in an 86-foot-Long cupola Over the front half of the plane. Three months of flight testing Over the Continental United states will be followed by tests using air Force targets at Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The project called the airborne opt the army a modified Boeing 767, carrying sophisticated sensors takes off Friday from Seattle a Boeing Field for a test flight. Cal adjunct airborne surveillance testbed is to determine if Long wave infrared sensors can provide Early warning and tracking of enemy ballistic missile warheads by sorting them from decoys and debris. The program is intended to test sensor technology rather than develop a Proto Type for an operational system. It is managed by the army strategic defense come for the strategic defense initiative or Star wars. The program has already Cost $600 million. The Cost will reach $700 million if the program continues As planned until 1992, col. Gary Stewart of the army strategic defense come in Huntsville ala., said. A Stewart said the program is two years behind schedule. He also said the program is Well above original Cost estimates of $450 million to $500 million. Of involved in secret radar Jammer project Washington apr the air Force is working on a secret version of a $7 billion program to build radar hammers after withdrawing from an earlier Public project because of budget problems. Deputy defense Secretary Donald j. Atwood confirmed to Congress on Friday that the service proposed killing the Public program to manufacture airborne self Protection hammers but is involved in a separate classified version. That disclosure Drew the ire of the chairman of a Senate governmental affairs subcommittee. Sen. David prior dark. A Quot this is one of the old Shell game tricks a Pryor told Atwood. A you Don t get a program. Or its not working you simply put in As they say a a Black program which is a top secret  a the Congress really has no control Over this he said. A we done to get to ask  Atwood also confirmed that he originally accepted the air forces recommendation and killed the program a step approved by defense Secretary Dick Cheney. The Public Effort a Navy air Force Donald j. Atwood program has now been revived by the Navy alone. Atwood said he changed his mind on cancellation of the program after the Navy appealed the decision and vowed that changes would be incorporated into the system. A i said All right As far As the Navy was concerned and then Cheney approved that and that was in our budget a Atwood said. Navy Secretary h. Lawrence Garrett Iii told the subcommittee that the Jammer program is the Only system that meets his services needs and that abandoning the program would Force the Navy Back to the drawing Board at a considerable expense. The Pentagon envisions that the electronic system to be installed in More than 2,000 Navy and air Force aircraft would increase the survivability of the planes by jamming or deceiving an enemy a radar controlled weapons. But the defense departments Deputy inspector general Derek Vander Schaaf told Pryor a panel that the systems effectiveness has not been proven. He recommended delaying production decisions until tests Are completed. An audit by Vander Schaafs office found that the Navy plans to buy 436 of the hammers before operational tests and fuel leak blamed in ship fire Navy honors officer who died evaluation Are completed. It also said Cost estimates May be $1.6 billion too Low. The defense departments own Cost analysis and improvement group estimates the program May Cost about $9 billion. Based on this information Vander Schaaf recommended that the department delay decisions on production until tests Are completed and that delivery of 100 hammers be stretched out. Robert Duncan director of operational tests and evaluation at the Pentagon said he expects the tests on the Jammer to begin in May 1991 and be completed by october 1991. But Vander Schaaf said he believes the results wont be in until much later. Pryor questioned the two officials As to whether Congress should approve the $173 million in the defense budget for the fiscal year beginning oct. 1 that is earmarked for the Jammer program. Duncan said yes Vander Schaaf said no. Earlier Atwood said Congress should approve the Money arguing that if the system proves itself in testing the program will be Worth it. Norfolk a. Apr a fuel leak in one of the boiler rooms on the guided missile destroyer Convene Ham touched off the fatal fire that sent smoke and Llames racing through the ship the skipper said Friday. Or nor. William r. Williams told reporters he feared he might lose his ship and had Small boats in the water in Case it had to be abandoned. A but when i saw the determination on the faces of my men All those thoughts left my mind a he told a is conference at the pier of the Norfolk naval Sta the fire Early tuesday killed the operations officer it. Or nor Algernon Pope Gordon jr., 34, of Montgomery ala., and injured 18 sailors. Nine sailors remained hospitalized. Seven in Good condition and two in satisfactory the Navy said. Gordon died after entering his Cabin to awaken a Cabin mate Williams said. Gordon a promotion from lieutenant to lieutenant commander was to have taken effect in a few weeks but the Navy said Friday it gave him the Honor posthumously. The Navy also announced that Gordon has been awarded the Navy and Marine corps medal for peacetime heroism. The Blaze broke out around 5 . When about 90 percent of the Crew was asleep Williams said. Flames from the leaking boiler fuel quickly spread upward filling berth spaces with smoke and sending flames up through the Middle of the 437-foot ship into the command information Center and Bridge he said the heat melted away aluminium decks and bulkheads leaving portions of the ships Interior melted to slag. A 12-bv-20-foot Hole was burned through two decks upward into the information Center. Williams who had been sleeping in his Cabin said he was aroused when general quarters was sounded. He Roade his Way to the Bridge through passageways filled with smoke. The Bridge was no better ,ai7�?otlwls a ack smoke everywhere a the Captain said the decks were red hot. Fireballs periodically shot from the  uni any Williams ordered the ships Interior evacuated and he set up command on the Forward torpedo deck the fire effectively split the Crew in half. Although he was ?1\, exec univ officer it. Cmdr Martin Moody took command of Crew members on the fan the ship was without Power making communication Between the fore and aft areas difficult but fire Vii news a re organized and equipment dieders Fost in the Maze so me Fireng Hting equipment was stateside scientist refuses to testify about allegedly altered data Boston apr a scientist wont testify at a congressional panel investigating accusations that she falsified data in a genetics research paper she had written with a Nobel prize Winner her attorney said Friday. A she feels very much hounded. By an unwarranted intervention and intrusion by the government into the scientific process a said Bruce a a Umb attorney for or. Thereza Imanishi Kan of Tufts University. Imanishi Kari is declining to testify monday before a House subcommittee reviewing charges she misrepresented research reported in a 1986 Arri pub isl Edn the scientific journal cell. The committees investigation has focused on forensic studies performed on Imanishi Kari s notebooks by secret service specialists who allegedly found that As Many As 40 pages were prepared up to two years after their recorded dates. Mondays hearing also was scheduled to examine a May 4 forensics study that suggests the Boston pathologist made fraudulent tape record supp a the paper which was researched at l Utts and the Massachusetts Institute of technology