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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:29:05 -0400
From: "(Gary Chapman)" <chapman@SILVER.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: File 2--Defense Conversion Hearing
The Department of Defense has set up a Defense Conversion Commission,
which is traveling around the country to conduct hearings on local
conversion requirements. So far there have been hearings in Atlanta;
Long Beach, California; St. Louis; Dallas; Groton, Connecticut; and
Seattle. The public hearings last one day, and the commission also
visits sites of major defense contractors and speaks to the local
press about defense conversion. The commission is scheduled to
release a report on its findings no later than December 31.
On September 24th, the commission held its hearing in Seattle and
testifying on behalf of CPSR and The 21st Century Project was
Professor Philip Bereano, professor of technology and public policy at
the University of Washington. Phil spoke for ten minutes -- the
alloted time for each hearing witness -- about The 21st Century
Project and its program of democratizing U.S. technology policy and
redirecting research and development programs to peaceful and
environmentally responsible goals.
There were eighteen other hearing witnesses testifying, representing a
broad range of public interest and business organizations, including
Washington State SANE/Freeze, Seattle Women Act for Peace, and the
Washington Association of Churches. Professional organizations
represented included the Seattle Professional Engineering Employees
Association and the IEEE Engineering Manpower Committee. There was
also testimony from the King County Diversification Committee, the
local commission on economic conversion.
There are six members of the commission, most of them Pentagon
officials; there is one representative from the Department of Labor,
and one from the President's Council of Economic Advisers. It is
chaired by David J. Berteau, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Production and Logistics, and former director of the DoD's Office of
Economic Adjustment. The representative from the Department of Labor
(and the only woman on the panel) is Robin Higgins, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Veteran's Employment and Training, a former
Marine officer, and widow of Colonel William R. Higgns, the Marine
officer captured and executed by Lebanese terrorists in 1988.
For more information about the commission and its work, contact the
Commission on Defense Conversion, 1825 K Street, N.W., Suite 310,
Washington, D.C. 20006, or call (202) 653-1664.
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