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B-174284 1 (1971-10-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafez0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNT WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DEFENSE DIVISION B-174284 OCT 14i IM r III 11111 1111111111111 III 11111 lll IIII / Dear Mr. Secretary: LM095503 On November 9, 1970, we sent you, for review and comment, a draft of a proposed report to the Congress entitled Questionable Need for Full Implementation of Plans to Construct Eplosive Pro- duction Facilitf-ley the Department of Defense (OSD Case 3200). By letter dated January 12, 1971, we received comments on the draft report from the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics). In our draft report we stated that, by using Minol-2 in place of Tritonal as the standard explosive fill for Air Force general purpose bombs, the TNT production base could be reduced from 30 to 20 lines at a savings of $110 million in construction costs. Accord- ingly, we proposed that the need for modernizing TNT production facilities be reevaluated. In his reply, the Assistant Secretary agreed with our proposal and advised us that the original 5-year program for modernizing the TNT production base had now been extended to a 10- to 12-year effort. He stated further that the Department of Defense is reviewing and analyzing the Services' explosive fill requirements and the accept- ability of new or alternate explosives, but considers it prudent at this time to continue to modernize (i.e., construct new replacements for) the production facilities for TNT on a modular basis at Joliet and Volunteer Army Ammunition Plants. In our draft report, we noted that the possibility of reduced facility requirements resulting from changes in explosive fills was not fully explained to the Congress at the time the Department's program for construction of new modern TUT facilities was originally outlined before Congressional committees. For this reason we pro- posed to submit the report to Congress in order to inform it of the potential for significant cost reductions in future Defense spending by utilization of alternate explosive fills. Subsequently, this program was more fully presented to the Con- gress in hearings held by the Subcommittee on Department of Defense of the House Committee on Appropriations in May 1971. The Army 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-1971

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