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P, -~* ~UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE I'181'
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS
ACQUISITION DIVISION APRIL 21, 1980
B-198347
The Honorable Harold Brown 0<
The Secretary of Defense A 1
Attention: Assistant for Audit Reports
Room 3A336 112096
ASD (Comptroller)
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Subject: (DOD Still Needs to Clarify
Policies for Performing Research
and Development for Other Agencies]
(PSAD-80-44)
In September 1979 we issued a report on a review of
the current practices and recurring problems for interagency
laboratory use (PSAD-79-97). Interagency laboratory use
is one effective means of avoiding duplicative efforts and
efficiently using costly Federal facilities and skilled
technical personnel.
DOD, Which has the most extensive array of Federal
research and development facilities, was included among the
seven departments covered in our review. We noted in the
report that, in spite of overall departmental policy state-
ments enGouraging interagency cooperation, the laboratory
directors and researchers perceived other policies, directives,
and administrative requirements as restrictive and discouraging
measures. These included the limitation of 3 percent on pro-
fessional staff-years that could be devoted to nondefense work
in the laboratories; policies prohibiting the addition of new
staff or facilities to accommodate nondefense work for other
agencies, which have been subject to misinterpretation; and the
Mansfield Amendments, I/ which were still perceived as limiting
the flexibility of DOD-laboratories in responding to tasks out-
side their immediate mission. Some DOD research and development
officials also held the perception that DOD laboratories-should
do only defense work.
1/Sections of Public Laws 91-121 and 91-441 (1970 and 1971 Armed
Forces Appropriation Authorization Acts), known as the Mansfield
Amendments, limited the use of funds to those projects related
to a military function or operation.
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