WATS was profiled to the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representative's]] Military Research and Development Subcommittee on [[October 1]], [[1997]] during a hearing on nuclear terrorism and countermeasures [http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1997_h/has274010_1.htm#79]. 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 [http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has216010.000/has216010_1.HTM#12].
