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02152 - [A1392395]
Restructuring Needed of Department of Defense Program for
Planning with Private Industry for Mobilization Production
Requirements. PSAD-77-lOC; B-140389. May 13, 1977. 29 pp.
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area- Military Preparedness Plans (800); Federal
Procurement of goods and Services (1900).
Contact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Department of Defense -
Military (except procurement & contracts) (051).
Organization Concerned: Department of Defense.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services; Congress.
Authority: Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. Executive
Order 11051. Executive Order 11490.
The present Department of Defense mobilization planning
with private industry does little to strengthen U.S. industrial
capacity to meet emergency requirements, Findings/Conclusions:
The Department's planning with indivilual contractors to produce
and support the military material required for American defense
forces in a national emergency is inadequate. Contractors'
capacity projections to meet wartime requireaents are generally
unreliable, and little is done once the data is receiTed by the
services to cvercome forecasted production problems. The overall
adeguacy of industries' capability to meet mobilization
requirements is, in many instances, unknown. Present planning is
being attempted on too large a scale in relation to available
funling. There are neither planners to adequately rlan nor
suff-cient funding to carry the planning forward. The
credibility of the program with industry hAs been lost.
Recmmendations: Rather than continuing the program on the
present scale, planning objectives should be brought ore in
line jith available resources. The Secretary of Defense should
require a restructure of the Indrstrial Preparedness Planning
program, taking into consideration the need to determine the
priority of the progran in the overall defense strategy and to
mat-h what can be accomplished with resources to be comuitted.
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