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                     UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOJUNTING OFFICE      V

                                WASHINGTON, D.C.

                                                 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                                 EXPECTED TUESDAY
                                                 JUNE 8, 1976


                                  STATEMENT OF

                                  ELMER B. STAATS
                    COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

                                    BEFORE THE                     _Tvx

              SUBCOMMITTEE ON PRIORITIES AND ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT   g

                             JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE

         We are pleased to appear here this morning at your request to discuss

    our current and planned work involving major weapons system acquisitions.
    In particular, we will discuss certain recommendations of the Commission'

    on Government Procurement, and the process within the Department of Defense

    relating to the generation of requirements for new weapon systems.

         The General Accounting Office has been deeply involved in reviews of

    the acquisition of major weapon systems since 1970 growing out of the

    interest in the Congress in independently developed data on the cost,

    schedule and performance of systems for which funding was being requested.
    I have attached to this statement a letter which I sent to the Chairmen

    of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in 1969 on this subject.

    During the past 6 years we have issued several hundred studies on

    individual systems, primarily for the use of the Armed Services and

    Appropriations Committees.

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