Department of Defense Appropriations for ..., Part 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 |
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activities additional Admiral BEAKLEY Admiral HAYWARD Admiral JAMES Admiral PIRIE Admiral RABORN Admiral RICKOVER agency Air Force aircraft aircraft carrier appropriation Army ATLAS ATLAS missile ballistic missile BRADLEY budget capability carrier Chairman COLGLAZIER Command committee Corps cost Department of Defense electronic engineering estimate evaluation facilities fiscal year 1961 fleet FLOOD FORD FRIEDMAN funds going HINRICHS improve installation inventory June 30 LACROSSE LAIRD letter contracts MAHON maintenance Marine materiel MCGUIRE ment military million MINSHALL Naval Navy negotiation nuclear officers operation Ordnance percent personnel problem procedures procurement production question record reduced reliability request requirements research and development RITLAND Secretary of Defense SHEPPARD ships SIKES sonobuoys specific squadrons staff subcontracting submarines supply support equipment talking tank target thing THOMSON tion TITAN TSCHIRGI utilization vehicles weapon system
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Page 639 - It is the general policy of the administration that the Federal Government will not start or carry on any commercial activity to provide a service or product for its own use if such product or service can be procured from private enterprise through ordinary business channels.
Page 274 - Mr. MAHON. In presenting this information to us with respect to the comparison of costs, will you please contrast the first nuclearpowered carrier, the Enterprise, with what your second nuclear carrier would be like, bringing out the distinctions as to power and things of that kind. Will you do that ? Admiral JAMES. Yes, sir ; we can supply that for the record. (The information requested is classified and has been submitted to the committee.) Mr.
Page 201 - I would like to review some of the statements made by the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations before this committee in March 1954.
Page 639 - Because the private enterprise system is basic to the American economy, the general policy establishes a presumption in favor of Government procurement from commercial sources. This has the twofold benefit of furthering the free enterprise system and permitting agencies to concentrate their efforts on their primary objectives. However, in specific situations certain factors may make it necessary or advisable for a Government agency to produce goods or services for its own use.
Page 192 - Property acquired by purchase, donation, or other means of transfer may be occupied, used, and improved, for the purposes of this section prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General as required by section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended.
Page 636 - Even the operation of a Government-owned facility by a private organization through contractual arrangement does not automatically assure that the Government is not competing with private enterprise. This type of arrangement could act as a barrier to the development and growth of competitive commercial sources and procurement through ordinary business channels.
Page 634 - To the heads of executive departments and establishments. Subject : Commercial-industrial activities of the Government providing products or services for governmental use.
Page 862 - Procurements where it can be clearly demonstrated, from the existence of adequate competition or accurate prior cost experience with the product, that acceptance of an initial proposal without discussion would result in fair and reasonable prices and where the request for proposals notifies all offerers of the possibility that award may be made without discussion.
Page 262 - Philadelphia, but as the letters from the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations indicate, cost factors should not be conclusive.
Page 192 - ... expansion of public and private plants, Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title...