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B-164912 1 (1974-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaftd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUN VING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS ACQUISITION DIVISION B -164912 MAR 1 4 1974 The Honorable LM095963 The Secretary of Defense Attention: Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dear Mr. Secretary: On January 17, 1973, we advised you that we were initiating a survey of the Department of Defense's (DOD's) preparation and use of Area Coordinating Papers (ACP's) and Technology Coordinating Papers (TCP's) in planning its technology base activities. Subse- quently, we limited the scope of our survey to the examination of TCP's primarily because too few ACP's had been completed. We reviewed the completed TCP's and discussed their preparation and usefulness with Defense officials in the Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering (ODDR&E), the military services' headquarters, certain systems ccmmands, and selected laboratories. The survey was performed under our assignment code 952021. The TCP's were intended to be logzrage. p lngts designed to bring together in a coherent fashion the exploratory development goals of the military services in given technology fields, and to provide a clos coupling between_ mi)tary req1re- %entsof Axpie oratory development programs. The TCP's were initiated in 1970 as a result ofthe concern expressed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, David M. Packard, that supporting technologies in DOD should have a logical relationship to weapon systems and military missions. In our opinion, the TCP's, when properly prepared, will provide DOD components a continuing opportunity toimprovet lanningand /0 oft

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