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094447 1 (1970-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacujf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: e 0 ADDRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ELMER B. STAATS, AT THE ANNUAL LUNCHEON OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION, SHERATON PARK HOTEL, VtqI WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPTEMBER 24, 1970 1 094447 CHANGING TIMES IN DEFENSE PROCUREMENT The General Accounting Office will complete 50 years of service in June 1971. We are planning suitable activities for this anniversary. It is appropriate to honor the past. It is even more worthwhile to use this anniversary as an occasion to reassess how the GAO can become a still more ef- fective force for better administration and management in the Federal departments and agencies in the period ahead. GAO, from its inception in 1921, has been an institution always seeking ways to increase its effectiveness in response to the needs of the Congress. Situations in which GAO has sometimes found itself in periods when changes in its methods become necessary are well illustrated by an anecdote I came across recently. As the story goes-- A big-game hunter was on his way back to camp one evening when an enormous tiger appeared out of the jungle, not 20 feet away. As the tiger was about to spring, the hunter fired his last cartridge and missed. The tiger sprang too far and landed 15 feet beyond the hunter who then ran for camp and got there safely. The next day the hunter went behind the camp to practice a little shooting at close range. He heard a strange noise in the brush and went to investigate. It was the tiger--practicing short leaps. If GAO moved forward in short leaps in the early years of its history, it has, in recent times, been taking longer and longer leaps in order to provide the broader types of examina- tions and analyses increasingly needed by the Congress. These

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