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PSAD-76-173 1 (1976-11-02)

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Operation Breakthrough: Lessons Learned about Demonstrating Nev
Technology. PSAD-76-173: B-114860. November 2, 1976. 87 pp.
Refport to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.

Issue Area: Domestic Housing and Community Development (2100);
    Science and Technology: Federal Laboratories and rederally
    Supported Organizations Performing Research and Development
    (2003).
Contact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budget Function: Community and Regional Development: Community
    Development (151).
Orgauization Concerned: Department of Housing and Urban
    Development; Department of Commerce.
Cong.-essional Relevance: House Committee on Banking, Currency
    and Hcusinq; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban
    Lffairs; Congress.
Authority: Budget and Accourting Act of 1921 (31 U.S.C. 53).
    Accounting end Auditing Act of 1950 (31 U.S.C. 67). Housing
    and Urbin Development Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 1441a; 12
    U.S.C. 1701a). Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan
    Development Act of 1966 (12 U.S.C. 3372).

         Operation Breakthrough vas initiated by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (BUD) to improve the process of
prc',riding housing for lover income families by dems.nstrating the
value of industrialized (factory built) housing construction
methods and by eliminating or reducing barriers to
industrialized housing construction. Operation Breakthrough did
not prove the marketability of most of its sponsored housing
construction methods, but the program has supported some useful
changes in the housing industry by exposing buildars to new
construction methods and materials, exploring new methods of
evaluating housing construction, encouraging changes in building
code requirements, and supporting statewide building codes. The
program did not accomplish its objectives because unexpecte,
decreases occurred in the housing market; HUD subsidized
mortgage housing programs were suspended; and some housing
systems lacked cost savings potential. Experience gained through
operation Breakthrough indicates that demon-tration programs
should involve: thorough preliminaLy work to develop criteria.
evaluate proposed approaches, and analyze market uncertainties;
feasible strategies to overcome marketing problems; research to
resolve technical questions; and planning fcr Frcgras
evaluation. (Author/SC)

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