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PSAD-80-48 1 (1980-04-30)

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                  UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                          WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS
  ACQUISITION DIVISION

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     General Alton D. Slay
     Commander                       '  ~z
     Air Force Systems Command
     Andrews Air Force Base          3                     1
     Washington, D.C. 20334                                 1212

     Dear General Slay:                 74

          Subject: [Allegations of Improper Procedures
                    and Waste in Air Force Flight
                    Simulator peration and Maintenance
                    Contracts (PSAD- Q8048)

          We have completed a limited review of alleged improper
     procedures and waste in flight simulator operation and main-
     tenance at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory,
     Williams Air Force Base, Arizona. Three contractors--General
     Electric Company, The Singer Company's Link Division, and
     Systems Engineering Laboratories--maintain major subsystems
     of the simulator under sole source, non-personal services
     engineering maintenance contracts.

          Shortly after initiating our work, we learned that
     Brigadier General Titus C. Hall, Deputy for Systems, Aero-
     nautical Systems Division had completed a review of the same
     allegations on December 14, 1979. Consequently, our work
     consisted primarily of an analysis of General Hall's report,
     and information obtained during two visits to the Laboratory.

          We believe that General Hall's report adequately
     addresses all the allegations except one concerning sole
     source contracting for engineering maintenance of the Labora-
     tory's Advanced Simulator for Pilot Training. Maintenance
     contracts with General Electric, Systems Engineering Labora-
     tories and Singer/Link were initiated in January 1975. General
     Hall's study concluded that although the technical data package
     for the Systems Engineering Laboratories contract is adequate
     for competitive bidding, the packages for the General Electric
     and Singer/Link contracts are not. Whether the Laboratory



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