SENATE JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE PAUL H. DOUGLAS, Illinois, Chairman JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, Arkansas JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland HOUSE CI REPRESENTATIVES HENRY S. REUSS, Wisconsin FRANK M. COFFIN, Maine THOMAS B. CURTIS, Missouri CLARENCE E. KILBURN, New York JOHN W. LEHMAN, Clerk and Acting Executive Director SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE PROCUREMENT JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RAY WARD, Professional Staff Member CONTENTS STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS Bean, C. D., Commissioner, Federal Supply Service, General Services Campbell, Joseph C., Comptroller General of the United States; accom- panied by Lawrence J. Powers, Jr., Assistant to the Comptroller General; Charles Bailey, Deputy Director, Defense Accounting and Auditing Division, GAO; and J. Edward Welch, Deputy General Counsel, GAO_- General Accounting Office reports furnished to the Congress on re- views of the military assistance program.... Chamber of Commerce of the United States... Floete, Franklin, Administrator, General Services Administration_. National industrial equipment reserve... Hangen, Herman C., Director, Armed Forces Supply Support Center.. Utilization of long supply inventories and receipts from sale of surplus, Macomber, James H., Jr., General Counsel, General Services Administra- McGuire, E. Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and Logis- tics), accompanied by A. C. Bannerman, Director of Procurement Policy OASD (Supply and Logistics); Paul H. Riley, Director of Supply Man- agement Policy, OASD (Supply and Logistics); Robert C. Moot, OASD (Supply and Logistics); and Col. J. R. De Luca, Armed Forces Department of Defense factual accomplishments-inventory man- Page 49 Department of the Navy comments on the General Accounting Office 336 Letters to chairman_.. 349 Letter and enclosures of Courtney Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Procurement presentation to the Procurement Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate.. Subcontracting policies and procedures__ The defense materiel management program, fiscal year 1960.. Newman, Richard J., professional staff member Shoemaker, Perry M., president, Lackawanna Railroad, representing the committee of Hoover task force members, accompanied by Gen. Robert E. Wood, chairman, Hoover Commission task force on use and disposal of surplus property, and Frank Upman, Jr., executive secretary of the committee of Hoover Commission task force members... Staats, Hon. Elmer B., Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget, accompa- 338 535 263 212 Dates on which Air Force installations were activated.. 227 222 Summary of military expenditures.. 213 Warehousing projects proposed for authorization by the Department Ward, Ray, professional staff member. Whitten, Hon. Jamie L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Actions taken in process, or planned in implementation of section 3(2) (6) Army Alameda Medical Depot transfers to Navy; medical test cases, Department of Defense boards, committees, councils, and groups, in opera- tion between July 1, 1958, and May 31, 1959. Department of Defense multibillion dollar supply system, extension of re- Establishment of the Armed Forces Supply Support Center. Excerpts from certain General Accounting Office reports during 1958 and Forty-three military prime contractors: Net value of their military prime contract awards, July 1, 1957-June 30, 1958, and defense sales as per- cent of total company sales, 1958--- Import of transportation of household goods of military and civilian per- Letters of Hon. Clarence J. Brown to Hon. Maurice Stans, Director, Bureau Letter of Hon. Joseph W. Campbell, Comptroller General, to Hon. Neal Letters of Hon. Thomas B. Curtis to Hon. Raymond J. Saulnier, Chairman, Council of Economic advisers.. Letter of Hon. Paul H. Douglas to Erwin D. Canhon Letter of Hon. Paul H. Douglas to Hon. Joseph Campbell, Comptroller Page 468 510 491 295 450 537 Letter of Hon. Paul H. Douglas to Secretary of Defense. Letter of Hon. Paul H. Douglas to Hon. Maurice Stans, Director, Bureau Letter of Hon. Paul H. Doulas to Paul Upham. Letter of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to Hon. Clifton Woodrum. 64 76 Letter of Hon. R. C. Lanphier, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 499 Letters and enclosures of Philip Leboutillier, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary 538, 562 Letters of Hon. John W. McCormack to chairman, and enclosures. Letters of Hon. John W. McCormack, to Hon. Maurice Stans, Director of Letters of Hon. John W. McCormack to Secretary of Defense. 431, 475, 491, 497, 500 Letters of Hon. Perkins McGuire, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply Letter of Hon. Perkins McGuire to Hon. John W. McCormick Letter of C. P. Milne, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and Letter of Carl F. Oechsle, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, to chairman, Letter of R. Palmer, Snap-on-Tools Corp., Kenosha, Wis., to committee - Letter of T. P. Pike, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and Logistics) Letter of Philip A. Ray, Acting Secretary of Commerce, to chairman......... Letter of Hon. Raymond J. Saulnier, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, to Hon. Thomas B. Curtis.. Letters of John M. Sprague, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, to Letters of Hon. Maurice H. Stans, Director, Bureau of the Budget, to Hon. Letter of Hon. Maurice H. Stans to Hon. John W. McCormack.......... Letter of Howard L. Stier, Federal Statistics Users' Conference, to chair- man_ Letter of Hon. Stuart Symington to Hon. Neil H. McElroy, Secretary of Letter of R. Maxwell Tinsley, Washington, D.C., to committee__ Letter of John H. Windsor, president, the Bridgeport Hardware Manufac- Limitations on use of stock funds of the Department of the Air Force.. Magnitude of Department of Defense support activities - Miscellaneous papers relating to transportation costs in the Department of Miscellaneous papers on surplus property and stock fund operations relat- Names of former Secretaries of Defense, including Under Secretaries and Page 527 513 114 512 563 536 Percent distribution of inventories of General Supplies Study Model Among 171 Reported savings in the Department of Defense supply systems, extension 488 Summary of item commodity. 162 Summary of item commonality in general supplies study model as of Sep- 162 Surplus canvas duck, webbing and tape from military supply depots. Surplus property actions-fiscal years 1957-59- Unification of military procurement and supply, extension of remarks of 474 |