Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1956: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 1544 pages |
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actual additional Air Force Air Materiel Command Air National Guard Aircraft and related airframe airmen airplane amount appropriation audit base BOGART budget CALLAHAN Chairman Chief of Staff civilian Colonel WISEMAN combat committee Congress contracting officer contractor cost DAVIS DEANE Department of Defense depot DEPUTY CHIEF Discussion dollars DOUGLAS end of fiscal engines equipment estimate facilities field figure fire-control systems fiscal year 1956 flight flying funds GARLOCK GERRITY going GUERNSEY includes increase industry initial installations inventory June 30 LEWIS MAHON maintenance major manpower ment military personnel million missiles negotiation obligations operations overseas percent planes Planned program plant present problem question record reduced request requirements research and development Reserve SCRIVNER Secretary of Defense Secretary TALBOTT SIKES spares statement supply things tion TWINING units vehicles weapons WHITTEN wings World War II
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Page 308 - ... what evidence there is of good management and economy in the contracting procedure. General BOGART. Yes, sir. Mr. MAHON. I do not think there is any doubt but what the greatest possible savings that can come in the Military Establishment are in procurement. Nobody has been able to make it clear to me that we were doing anything of a specific or spectacular nature to save money in this field. Yesterday we discussed this business of contracting for fewer planes of the new models. I think that is...
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Page 192 - ... number of properties for which expected fund allocations are reasonably firm. May I say off the record Mr. WHITTEN. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.) Mr. WHITTEN. I think it would be well to submit to the committee, if you do not have it here now, how much extra cost there will be to the Government because you were not in a position to go ahead and accept the offers. Can you provide that for the committee ? General CANNON. Yes, sir. (The information...
Page 611 - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITNESSES HON. TREVOR GARDNER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT) MAJ. GEN. JAMES McCORMACK, JR., DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, DEVELOPMENT BRIG. GEN. MARVIN C. DEMLER, ASSISTANT DEPUTY COMMANDER, TECHNICAL OPERATIONS, AIR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND COL. ROBERT L. JOHNSTON, TECHNICAL EXECUTIVE, DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, DEVELOPMENT Amount* arailabJe for obligation Transferred,...
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