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              UNTED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTIG OFFICE
                    WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548


                                               FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                               Expected at 9:00 a.m. EST
                           SMarch 9, 1970
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     EIMER B. STA.ATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF TH1E UNITED STATES
                           BEFORE THE
             SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
       IL/COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, UNITED STATES SENATE


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     At your request, we appear before you today to present the informa-

tion that the General Accounting Office has developed in the course of

its study of' allowances for independent research and development (IR&D)

costs in negotiated contracts. As you know, we issued a report on the

results of this study to the Congress on Februar 16, 1970.

     The extent to which Government agencies should participate in con-

tractors' IR&D costs has been a matter of serious concern within the

executive branch for many years but no satisfactory solution has been

reached to the many problems involved. Consequently, I believe that

these hearings and the hearings in the House of Representatives should

prove very helpful. Our report includes three recommendations for con-

sideration by the Congress and also presents several issues and alterna-

tives concerning basic governmental policy on which we do not make a

specific recommendation.

What is IR&D?

     The term IR&D refers to that part of a contractor's total research

and development (R&D) program which is not under a direct contract or



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