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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON D.C. 20
B-202652 APRIL 3,1981
The Honorable Joseph P. Addabbo
Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives 114797
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Subject: ilegations of Improper Procurements by te Army
Metrology and Calibration Center7(PLRD-81-16)
In response to your July 22, 1980, letter and in subsequent
discussions with your Office, we reviewed allegations by Julie
Research Laboratories (JRL) Inc., that operations at the U.S.
Army Metrology and Calibration Center, Huntsville, Alabama,. are
inefficient and wasteful and that the Center's procurement prac-
tices are restrictive. JRL's allegations are depicted in its
1980 cartoon booklet, You're N]ot Supposed to Get Mugged By Your
Own Army. Our findings and conclusions, which were discussed
with your Office on March 25, 1981, are as follows:
--The Army, contrary to what it has told JRL, has both
laboratory and field requirements for automated
calibration equipment.
--The Army's technical evaluations of JRL's equipment
appear to be based on some questionable conclusions and
assumptions and largely ignore favorable impressions by
Army representatives who saw the equipment in operation.
--We cannot verify the Army's nor JRL's cost analyses at
this time because both used estimated workload data and
other unsupported assumptions.
Our findings and conclusions are based on interviews and
examinations of records at Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel
Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM), Army Metrology and
Calibration Center, JRL offices, White Sands Missile Range, and
a commercial user of JRL equipment.
Although we did not review each JRL allegation in detail,
we believe our work has disclosed that the Departments of
Defense and the Army need to reexamine the field Army
requirements for calibration equiptent and to test various
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