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B-163391 1 (1973-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: S* S p °r UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUN WASHINGTON, D.C. 20 PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMSI ACQUISITION DIVISION B-163391 LMO96115 /VG 0 i 33 The Honorable The Secretary of Defense 7 Dear Mr. Secretary: In 1971 DOD established a data bank on contractors' independent research and development (IR&D) programs at the Defense Documentation Center (DDC), Cameron Station, Virginia. Its objective is to provide a centralized source of information through which DOD scientists, engineers, and managers can become acquainted with IR&D technical projects conducted in defense-oriented industrial organizations. The U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, had established an IR&D data bank in 1970, to pro- vide MICOM scientists with information on contractors' IR&D programs and to prevent them from duplicating contractors' IR&D work. As part of our review of DOD's implementation of section 203; Public Law 91-441, relating to IR&D, we com- pared the two data banks to determine whether any data was unnecessarily duplicated. We considered the costs and use- fulness of the banks and the reactions of the users. We reviewed pertinent records and held discussions with per- sonnel concerned with contractors' IR&D data at DDC, MICOM, and the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. We found that: --Much of the contractor data in the two banks was duplicated, --Two problem areas might affect the banks' operations: (1) some Government representatives were reluctant to fully utilize the banks and (2) some contractors ob- jected to providing the data in the DDC-prescribed format. 5--7

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