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PLRD-83-47 1 (1983-03-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmvu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT. LOGISTICS. AND RKDINES2 DIVISIOtN B-210495 MARCH 4,1983 The Honorable Don Fuqua Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology 120716 House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: National Science Foundation's Expenditures for Planning the Overhaul and Conversion of the U.S. Government Ship Glomar Explorer for Deep Ocean Scientific Drilling Purposes (GAO/PLRD-83-47) On November 1, 1982, representatives of your office asked us to determine how much money has been spent in planning the conversion of the Glomar Explorer from a mining ship to a mobile scientific deep ocean drilling platform. We were asked also to give our opinion of the management controls used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to assure the reasonableness of expenditures. Based on further discussions with your representatives, we were asked to focus on the contract with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc. We made our review in accordance with generally accepted government audit standards. At NSF Headquarters, we interviewed officials and reviewed contract files, interagency agreement records, and scientific and technological reports on the ocean drilling program. We did not audit the costs charged to the project, but we did identify the management controls and techniques used by NSF to assure that the project was reasonably conducted. Our work indicates that NSF expenditures have been reasonably controlled. Since 1975 NSF has awarded $16,400,394 in appropriated funds and $5,120,333 in nonappropriated funds to various scientific and contracting organizations for determining the merits of deep ocean scientific drilling and the means to achieve such drilling (see enc. I). Of the total $21,520,727, all but $107,000 was used for scientific and engineering studies related to the ship Explorer as the primary candidate for a mobile drilling platform. (943557) 6

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