1Procurement authority is vested in the Military Secretaries by statute.

* Departmental procurement instructions are applicable worldwide to all commands of the respective departments.

Bureau of Ships: Procurement of naval vessels of all types, including hulls,
components, machinery, and all major electronic equipment except specialized
air and fire-control electronic equipment; for research and development on
such items; and for materials and appliances connected with chemical and
biological warfare defense. It also procures all vessels and water craft needed
by the Army and Air Force and makes ship repair contracts with private ship-
yards.

Bureau of Yards and Docks: Procurement of services and materials related
to public works, including construction and repairs at shore activities, public
utilities, and transportation not otherwise assigned. The Bureau also serves
as a construction agency for the Air Force.

Marine Corps: Procurement of all equipment, supplies, and services required
by the Marine Corps, procurement responsibility for which has not been speci-
fically assigned elsewhere.

Office of Naval Research: Procurement of basic research of a general nature,
procurement for the design and development of training devices and aids, and
the procurement of special research projects which augment those being con-
ducted by the various technical bureaus.

Bureau of Naval Personnel: Procurement of services and materials incident
to the recruiting, training, and welfare of naval personnel.

Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Manages the Navy's field purchasing organi-
zation, which procures all of the replacement spares and parts, and associated
consumables for the major prime items of equipment purchased by the technical
bureaus as described above.

Additionally, it procures general-purpose and common-use items not assigned
to one of the Defense Department's coordinating procurement offices, and per-
forms the local purchasing at all of the Navy's field activities such as Navy
purchasing offices, naval stations, naval air stations, naval supply depots, and
naval shipyards. Also operating under the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
are two single manager agencies: the Military Medical Supply Agency and the
Military Petroleum Supply Agency.

The Navy also has the single manager responsibility for worldwide military
sea transportation of passengers and cargo. The Military Sea Transportation
Service is the operating agency for this single managership, and, with respect
to procurement, is responsible to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material).

COORDINATED PROCEDURE PROGRAMS

A. SINGLE DEPARTMENT PROCUREMENT

One military department, utilizing its regularly established purchasing system, purchases the requirements for certain commonly used commodities for all military departments. Of the 32 assigned commodities, which include such items as paint, lumber, coal, photographic equipment, and food preparation equipment, 14 are assigned to the Navy, as follows:

Commodity

Single Department Procurement Assignments

Ecclesiastical equipment, furnishings, and supplies_
Electronic equipment--

Fibers, fiber rope, cordage, and twine_.

Fuels, solid___

Hand tools____

Lifesaving equipment, marine....

Materials handling equipment_

Paints and sealers___

Pest control agents.

Prefabricated and portable buildings..

Sextants, aircraft__.

Ships, small craft, and related marine equipment....

Time measuring instruments---

Weapons, fire-control equipment, ammunition and explosives--

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1 Each Department is assigned procurement responsibility for those items which the Department either designed or for which it sponsored development.

B. PLANT COGNIZANCE PROCUREMENT

One military department effects all procurement from certain assigned aviation plants, thereby permitting proper allocation of production capacity, avoiding duplication of military inspection and providing a single point of contact for the contractor.

Plant Cognizance Procurement Assignments

Location

Manufacturer

AIRCRAFT PLANTS

Assigned department

(DOD 463).

Kaman Aircraft Corp..

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp......

Hiller Helicopter, Inc..

Hurst, Tex..
Dallas, Tex.

Kaman Aircraft Corp., naval industrial reserve aircraft plant Bloomfield, Conn.

Lockheed Aircraft Corp., plant A

Ryan Aeronautical Corp..

ENGINE PLANTS

United Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division, departmental reserve plant (DOD 57).

North American Aviation, Inc., naval industrial reserve aircraft Columbus, Ohio. plant (DOD 303).

TEMCO Aircraft Corp., plant A..

Vertol Aircraft Corp. (formerly Piasecki Helicopter Corp.)

United Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division.. United Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division, naval industrial reserve aircraft plant (DOD 61).

Westinghouse Electric Corp., Aviation Gas Turbine Division, naval industrial reserve aircraft plant (DOD 202).

PROPELLER PLANTS

United Aircraft Corp., Hamilton Standard Division......

RELATED PROGRAMS

C. SINGLE MANAGER PROCUREMENT

Centralized procurement activities, assigned for management to the Secretary of a single military department, procure the combined net requirements for selected, commonly used commercial type commodities and services for all military departments. Commodities/services included are: subsistence, petroleum and petroleum products, clothing and textile material, medical material, ocean transportation, and traffic management services.

GSA procures commonly used, commercial type items, such as office equipment, for all Government agencies, including the military services. (Repeated from page 1.)

List of Federal supply schedule contracts which are mandatory nationally upon the Department of Defense

Gasoline and lubricating oil-service station deliveries.

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Tires and tubes (other than aircraft), part II1 (commercial tires and tubes only). Brake lining, clutch facings, oil filter elements, and tire chains, etc., part IV.1 (Selected items only are mandatory upon DOD.)

Spark plugs, part II.1

Electric lamps, part VI.1

Household and quarters lamps, part VII.1

Purchase, maintenance, repair, and rental of microphotographic equipment, and supplies, part IV.1

Household and quarters furniture, parts I1 through IV.1

Office furniture, wood and steel, including steel insulating filing cabinets, part V.1

Floor coverings, part I.1

Books, part I,' sections A and B.
Periodicals and law books, part II.1
DOD.)

(Section A only is mandatory upon DOD.) (Law books section only is mandatory upon

Drafting room and office supplies, part I.1
Envelopes, printed and plain, part V.1

Typewriters (manual and electric); purchase, exchange allowances, and repair parts; maintenance and reconditioning of electric typewriters, part I.1

Office equipment, part III,' sections A and B.

Offset duplicating blankets and plates, direct image and photographic (metal and paper type), part IV.1

Vacuum cleaners and repair parts, accessories and attachments, part II.1
Aircraft tires (casings and tubes).

Recordings and transcription service, part I.1

1 Refers to GSA catalogues which contain pertinent data relative to these items.

PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE SHOWING FLOW OF PROCURE-
MENT AUTHORITY AND POLICY GUIDANCE

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and Logistics).

SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE1
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Materiel).

THE PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION

Under the Secretary of Defense, the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply
and Logistics) establishes procurement policies and procedures for the entire
Department. The Secretary of Defense has no contractual authority, except in
research and development (1958).

To render assistance in this connection, the Armed Services Procurement
Regulation Committee develops uniform procurement policies and procedures
for issuance by the Assistant Secretary of Defense. This committee is com-
posed of representatives of the three military departments and the Office of
the Assistant Secretary of Defense.

Within each military department, an Assistant Secretary is in charge of
military procurement-namely, the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Logis-
tics), the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material), and the Assistant Sec-
retary of the Air Force (Materiel). At the next lower echelon a military
official in each department is responsible for coordinating and directing the
overall procurement operation.

In the Air Force, procurement authority has been delegated by the Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Materiel) through the Chief of Staff and Deputy
Chief of Staff, Materiel, to the Air Materiel Command (AMC). AMC is re-
sponsible for the Air Force's central buying program, which is its major buy-
ing function and accounts for all except the procurement of research and
development and local base procurement.

The actual purchasing is performed for AMC within the Zone of the In-
terior by the Aeronautical Systems Center, the Ballistic Missile Center, the
Electronic System Center, nine separate air materiel areas, and two depots.
Oversea procurement for AMC is accomplished by two air materiel forces:
one in Europe and one in the Pacific,

COMMANDER AIR MATERIEL COMMAND
Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio

Director, Procurement and Production:
Other Major Commands:

The procurement responsibilities of the centers, air materiel areas, and the depots are as follows:

The depots procure general support equipment such as refuelers, crashfire trucks, snow-removal vehicles, and radio and radar tubes.