History
WATS was profiled to the U.S. House of Representative's Military Research and Development Subcommittee on October 1, 1997 during a hearing on nuclear terrorism and countermeasures . On August 4, 1998 in a subsequent meeting of that subcommittee, Chairman Curt Weldon stated that research funding for WATS had been cut by the Clinton administration to a subsistence level and that the program had been poorly re-organized .
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