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B-160877 1 (1974-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .0S.LER a, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B- 16 0877 JUN 241974 The Honorable Les Aspin IIIIi IIl l IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII III House of Representatives LM095817 Dear Mr. Aspin: We have inquired into certain aspects of the N ayLsSbmarine Emergency Communications Transmitter (E9& ?9gKam in response to your January 3, 1974, letter and subsequent discussions with your office. Our examination was directed primarily to the circumstances surrounding the Navy's decision not to terminate the fiscal year 1973 pgp d toontract for the SECT buoys and related equipment. As dis- cussed below, we found that the Navy might have saved about $2. 1 mil- lion had it terminated the contract by the end of November 1972. In addition, we obtained information on the nine questions concern- ing the SECT program in your December 26, 1973, and January 28, 1974, letters to the Navy. As discussed with your office, in view of the claims currently before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, we did not look into the allegations of Mr. Lewis D. Malnak regarding his dealings with the Navy on a program for developing and producing the receivers used with the SECT buoys. A summary of our findings follows. PROGRAM HISTORY The Navy's submarine fleet is composed of three broad types of vessels designated as the SS, the SSN, and the SSBN. SS and SSN ves- sels are attack-type submarines; SS vessels are diesel powered and SSN vessels are nuclear powered. The SSBNs are nuclear-powered ballistic missile vessels and are part of our country's strategic military force. Thus, from a strategic point of view, the loss of an SSBN submarine would have a greater impact on our national defense than would the loss of an SS or SSN. As early as 1959, the Navy established a requirement that SSBNs be provided with a system for alerting appropriate command levels when one of the vessels and its strategic weapons system had been lost. In fiscal year 1960, the Navy began spending Xes~ergxanQ .~eyv ! ent funds for this requirement. Not until after the loss of the SSN Thresher in 1964, however, were specific recommendations made on the urgent need for a lg~t4fO Ti -

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