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095418 1 (1978-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS BY ELMER S. STAATS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UL4ITED STATES PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF A VISIT TO THE RIGSREVI-SIONEN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REVIEWS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROCUREMENT IN THE UNITED STATES JUNE 12, 1978 It is a pleasure for me to be here today to talk to you about the audit work of the General Accounting Office relating to procurement. As you can well imagine, this subject repLesents one O the larcgest areas of effoct by our Office. We assign almost 10 percent of our total staff resources to procurement. A large part of this work is concerned with procurement by the Department of Defense. But major procurement expenditures are also made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the General Services Administration, the Department of Transportation, and many other agencies. In reviewing defense procurement, GAO makes a distinction between the process of acquiring major defense systems and the process of contracting. Each of these activities is governed by its own set of management concepts and regulations; each is audited from a different perspective. The management of the acquisition of majoc weapons systems deals with the difficult problems of properly defining needs; objective analyses of cost and effectiveness of alternative

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