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GGD-84-49 1 (1984-02-13)

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                     UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 05


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       B-199008                          FEBRUARY 13, 1984



       The Honorable Robert Byrd
       United States Senate

       The Honorable David Pryor
       United States Senate

            Subject: Followup Review of Department of Defense Actions
                      to Correct Problems in the Operation of the
                      Defense Science Board (GAO/GGD-84-49)

            This letter responds to your joint request that we review
       corrective actions taken by the Department of Defense (DOD) in
       response to the Inspector General's report of July 7, 1983,
       entitled Policies, Procedures, and Practices for Operation of
       the Defense Science Board. The Inspector General (IG) made
       specific recommendations to the Under Secretary of Defense for
       Research and Engineering and the Assistant Secretary of Defense
       (Comptroller) to ensure the Defense Science Board (DSB) is
       complying with the Federal Advisory Committee Act and DOD's
       ethical standards of conduct.

            You also requested DOD's IG perform a similar followup
       review. To avoid duplication in the two efforts, we obtained
       concurrence from your offices that we would (1) assess the IG's
       followup review and (2) independently review financial disclo-
       sure statements filed by members of DSB task forces formed since
       the IG's initial review to determine whether any apparent con-
       flicts of interest exist.

            We bmlieve the IG's followup review adequately covered the
       problems identified in his July 7 report and supported his con-
       clusions that DOD has taken or is taking action to correct the
       problems. Our review of financial disclosure statements
       revealed no apparent conflicts of interest.




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