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LCD-78-419 1 (1978-05-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaxfk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 05926 - [B14264391 Army's Fiscal Year 1979 Prcgram for Procuring Conventional Ammunition and Related Production Base Support. LCD-7-419; B-172707. May 15, IC78. 33 pp. + 4 appendices (6 pp.). Rsort to Rep. George e. Mahon, chairman, acuse Co'.mittee on Appropriatious; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller ,ueral. Issue Area: Military Preparedness Plans: fmlitary forces Readinesn (805); Facilities and material Mangement: New Versus Existing Federal Facilities (705);Federa; Procurement of Goods and Services.° rroourement of Only reeded Quantities of Goods (1901). Contact: ogistics and Communications Div. Budget Function: Natinal Defense, Depa-tLavnt of Defense - Military (except procurement ; contacts) (051); National Defense: Department of DeAense - Procurerent 9 Ccntracts (058). Organization Concerned: Department of Defense; Department of the Army. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Appropriations; iouse Committee on Armed Services; Sstaa Committec on Armed Services. Rep. George H. Mahon. The Army's fiscal year (FY) 1979 ammunition appropriation request as $1.15 billion for procuring conventional ammunition and $265 million for related production support. The ammunition is for annual peacetime training and reserve wartime stocks. Host of the requested prcduction support funds are for modernizing and expanding the Army's ammunition plants. Findings/Conclusions: The $85 million requested for three conventional ammunition items should not be appropriated nov because: there are unresolved issues about Copperhead rounds relating to system vulnerability, weather effects and cost-effectiveness; an impact switch for increasing the reliability of the 105-mm high explosive antitank round is still being developed; and the ground-emplaced mine scattering system is not currently needed. Also, the Army should not procure a depleted uranium penetrator until a potential health hazard has been resolved. All but 2 of 13 modernization and expansion projects reviewed vere adequately justified. two projects that should be deferred are replacing of four obsolete ammonia oxidation plants at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant with a new $14.4 million facility and improving the main heating plant at the Iowa Army kmunitiou Plant. Projects in the ammunition manufacturing methods and technology program were production oriented, the Army's review process was extensive, and past years' projeot results were disseminated for use by others. Production support and equipment replacement projects at four locations could not be supported. Recommendations: The House Committee on Appropriations should: reduce by $65 million the Army's request for procuring conventional ammunition, redt2ce by

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