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119027 1 (1982-07-22)

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



                                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                          Expected at 10:00 a.m.
                                          Thursday, July 22, 1982



                         STATEMENT OF
                      CHARLES A. BOWSHER
                      COMPTROLLER GENERAL
                      OF THE UNITED STATES                 119027

                          BEFORE THE

       SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY
           HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

                              ON

      THE DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD'S TASK FORCE ON EMBEDDED
         COMPUTER RESOURCES ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

     I am pleased to be here today to discuss our views on the

Department of Defense (DOD) Instruction 5000.5x and our review

of the objectivity of the decisionmaking process used by the De-

fense Science Board's Task Force on Embedded Computer Resources

Acquisition and Management.  The Defense Science Board convened

this task force in August 1981 to review, evaluate, and make rec-

ommendations on DOD's acquisition, management, and utilization

of computers to support its military mission.

     As part of its mission, the task force was to examine

whether the policies proposed in DOD Instruction 5000.5x to gov-

ern computer standardization are appropriate.  The objectives of

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