European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. June 18, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5af enjoys stealth Success Navy Waits in wings by Eric Schmitt the new York times Washington As lawmakers at Andrews fab looked on admiringly last week president Bush clambered into the cockpit of an Al 17a stealth fighter a b-2 stealth bomber and an f-22 stealth fighter and hailed the planes As the Aerial weaponry of tomorrow. Navy officials who Are still trying to get their first radar evading plane off the drawing Board and onto aircraft carriers could Only w Ince in envy at the sleek angular planes parked in a hangar for a we Klong $900,000 promotional Campaign to tout the air Force wares. In the race to build stealth aircraft to carry american military aviators into the 21st Century. The air Force leads the Navy 3-0. The Success of the air forces stealth fighters in the persian Gulf War transformed an exotic and expensive technology into the hottest property at the Pentagon. But As the Pentagon a budget continues to shrink because of fiscal constraints at Home and expectations of a diminishing threat from the soviet Union the air Force and Navy arc locked in a rivalry to build the new aircraft with dwindling resources. That rivalry has underscored questions of major importance to the Pentagon Congress and american military contractors How much stealth can Washington afford How can the nation strike a bal Joseph Owen it intruders such As the one pictured aboard the aircraft Carrier Theodore Roost will re train the Navy a primary Carrier based bomber until the a is developed. Ance Between modernizing military forces and trimming military spending a the question now is what kind of a Force can we maintain at lower budget Levels Quot a said Natalie Goldring senior analyst at the defense budget project a non profit research group in Washington. By All accounts the Navy finds itself in a much tighter bind than the air Force the Navy As a result of defense Secretary Dick Cheney a decision in january to cancel the a-12 attack plane because of delays and Cost overruns has been left with no stealth aircraft until an alternative the a is developed by the end of the decade. This has left the service scrambling to devise a new plane and an interim plan to keep its Fleet of aircraft carriers which Are Only As potent As the aircraft they carry at the heart of americans military strategy. Quot id be less than human if i did no to feel disappointment that we done to have something coming on because we Pride ourselves As developers of Good aircraft Quot said vice adm. Richard m. Dunleavy the head of naval aviation. Publicly air Force officials say this is no time to gloat Over the misfortunes of their longtime rival. Senior Ollices say the am Force is interested in buying a modified version of the Navy a to replace its Al 11 and f-15 Eagle fighter bombers. For the air Force the pressing question is adding to its existing Fleet of 57 radar evading Al i7a fighters. That Means saving its planned Fleet of b-2 stealth bombers a now in production a from budget cutting extinction and proceeding with Dovel Ozment of the f-22. A new generation of fighter jets w Ith stealth technology air Force and Navy officials say they share common goals but those Aims May soon clash. 1 he b-2, the air forces top priority aircraft is struggling to survive fierce opposition m Congress one reason the air Force showcased its stealth Fleet at Andrews last week. When rep. John p. Murtha the Pennsylvania Democrat who is chairman of lire House appropriations subcommittee on defense recently suggested scrapping the Navy s efforts to Field a new stealth plane and giving that Money instead to the b-2 program. Air Force officials privately expressed elation. The Navy a efforts to develop stealth technology Are in a shambles after the cancellation of the a-12. The Navy Saul earlier this year that until the a is built it would try to plug the Gap left by the a-12 by replacing the wings on 12 1 a a intruders or roughly one thir d of the exist ing Carrier based bombers and buying 210 More Fa-18 Hornet attack planes court denies Appeal of discharged reservists Washington a  former military reservists who accused the armed forces of discharging them As they neared 20 years of service denying them retirement benefits had their appeals rejected by the supreme court monday. The court without comment let stand a ruling that the government has Broad Power to discharge reservists. A a a. A a a a a. A the six Reserve air Force and army officers said the government in the mid-1980s violated a since amended Federal Law aimed at protecting the pension rights of those with 18 or 19 years of military service. The Law barred the involuntary discharge of a resort is a who is on Active duty and within two years of becoming eligible for retirement benefits. Congress amended the Law in 1987 to say that Active duty does not include training exercises. The six who filed the Appeal were taking part in training when they were discharged prior to 1987,. A Federal appeals court Here ruled last year that the six were discharged legally. The appeals court said the pro.-1.987 version of the Law was designed Only to protect reservists on Active duty a not those taking part in training exercises. A typical Case was that of it. Col Albertis Wilson. He was discharged from the regular army in 1980 with the rank of Captain and la years of Active duty. Wilson later joined the army Reserve Anil had been promoted to lieutenant colonel. He was discharged in 1984 As he completed a training Mission at fort Mcpherson a. Lie had completed 18 years of army service and asked that he be allowed to remain a reservist for two More years to qualify for a pension. The Case is Wilson is. U.s., 90-1451, in the stars and stripes 10years ago june 18 1981 a California Brush fires raged out of control damaging More than 23,000 Agres. Meanwhile sizzling heat in the East resulted in record electricity loads. 20years ago june 18,1971 a As part of president Nixon a newly announced War on drugs the Pentagon announced that All servicemen leaving Vietnam would undergo a new test for heroin addiction. Eventually the testing was to be expanded to All military personnel including those in the . And Europe. A 30years ago june 18,1961 a president Kennedy accused the soviet Union of blocking agreement on a nuclear test ban and warned that National Security would eventually Force him to order resumption of . Weapons testing. 40years ago june 18, 1951 a in a dramatic comeback golfer Ben Hogan played what he called Quot the greatest round of my life Quot to win his second consecutive . Open title. Smart highways will pave the Way for cleaner less congested driving by Curt Suplee the Washington Post your car lurches up the on ramp poised to pounce into the northbound interstate 95 traffic Stream. The console speaker beeps firmly three times indicating that a sensor implanted in the Asphalt has recorded your cards id number. The Highway navigation system is now in control Quot Yvo As you take your foot off the Gas shake the newspaper open and Start to read a space opens in the Lane to your left and your car glides into the Niche. Your thermos slashes agreeably As front and rear radar controlled autopilots adjust the distance Between vehicles. A Row of toll Booths looms ahead but the car barely slows. A Detector reads a radio signal from your License plate and debits your credit card for the toll. Ten minutes later another beep. The console screen shows an Accident North of Baltimore and suggests another Road. You decide to stick with the original route to Trenton where the liquid Crystal display shows 332 hotel rooms and 27 eateries in your Price Range. This is not some resuscitative fantasy for the Road rankled. About $20 million in Federal funds alone is being spent this year to help develop a Cluster of technologies known collectively As intelligent vehicle Highway systems and informally As a smart  some of the gizmos mentioned above Are in place and More Are on the Way recently the Senate Lin Viron ment and Public works committee approved a plan that would devote $150 million a year for the next five years to ivies. A proponents Call that cheap. According to a general accounting office study released this Spring a a experts estimate that delays from traffic congestion alone result in productivity losses of up to $100 billion  and that a not counting the Cost of More accidents added air pollution and aggravated stress. The Gao predicts that a full scale Ivi is system could Cut the average commute by As much As 50 percent in Jam prone Urban areas. In Fos Angeles for example a six arterial trial project slated to Stirt next year could save up to $32 million annually in time and Gas. Ives entails three successive stages of escalating sophistication traffic manage ment systems to provide and collate data on Highway conditions Traecler advice devices to transmit a real time navigational information into the car and ultimately automated control of Speed direction and steering and braking. One system will be tested next year on Woodrow Wilson Bridge near Washington. Two video cameras will be trained on lanes approaching the Bridge. Com Peters will calculate the number of images that Cross a line on the screen and the time each takes to Cross. I his not Only measures traffic Speed and density but also the proportion of cars trucks and buses on each Lane of the Road. And it does it without human observers. In Europe and Japan trials of such systems have been under by for years. Germany a Siemens and England s general logistics .-use., infrared beams shot from Roadside stations. Another technique says Chris Hill a partner in Castle Rock consultants a British firm with offices in Feesburg va., is to embed Quot Driver sup port data onto a a a sideband of an exist my pm radio station and then equip cars with a decoder. Yet another system scheduled to begin tests in Florida employs a dedicated uhf radio signal. Air Are designed to provide instantaneously updated travel information displayed on software generated electronic maps in each car. California has begun testing an in car information system called Quot Pathfinder a and Early next year Orlando will begin a 100-car Experiment on a a Trastek Quot which also provides motorists with maps of the City environs restaurant and hotel information and advice on routes. The total Robo it Road however is still Many years in the future though researchers Are examining Remote guidance systems that follow a painted Stripe on the Road