Weapons System Management and Team System Concept in Government Contracting: Hearings Before the Subcommittee for Special Investigations of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, Under the Authority of H. Res. 19, April 13-15, 21, 22, 29, 30, May 1, 6, 8, June 3-5, 9-12, 17, July 15-17, August 20 and 25, 1959 |
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... performance requirements in recent years , the increase of developmental work necessary in the procure- ment of aircraft and missiles , the evolution of weapon system con- tracting , and its major advantages . Tomorrow I will describe ...
... performance requirements in recent years , the increase of developmental work necessary in the procure- ment of aircraft and missiles , the evolution of weapon system con- tracting , and its major advantages . Tomorrow I will describe ...
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... performance and maintainability , and this airplane became the predecessor of the most widely accepted airplane in history , the T - 6 Texan , which I showed you on the first chart . As the first specially designed advanced trainer to ...
... performance and maintainability , and this airplane became the predecessor of the most widely accepted airplane in history , the T - 6 Texan , which I showed you on the first chart . As the first specially designed advanced trainer to ...
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... PERFORMANCE TREND ALTITUDE FEET 80.000 1500 60.000 ALTITUDE 1000 40.000 SPEED 500 20.000 SEA 0 1920 1930 LEVEL 1940 ... performance are indicated roughly on this chart for manned weapon systems . As you can see by the performance trend ...
... PERFORMANCE TREND ALTITUDE FEET 80.000 1500 60.000 ALTITUDE 1000 40.000 SPEED 500 20.000 SEA 0 1920 1930 LEVEL 1940 ... performance are indicated roughly on this chart for manned weapon systems . As you can see by the performance trend ...
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... performance progress , let us consider the matter of radar range . SYSTEM INTEGRATION RADAR 50-1960 1960-1970-- RADAR RANGE IS INCREASED IN DIRECT PROPORTION TO AIRCRAFT SPEED DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS RADAR RANGE • POWER • ANTENNA SIZE ...
... performance progress , let us consider the matter of radar range . SYSTEM INTEGRATION RADAR 50-1960 1960-1970-- RADAR RANGE IS INCREASED IN DIRECT PROPORTION TO AIRCRAFT SPEED DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS RADAR RANGE • POWER • ANTENNA SIZE ...
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... performance trends that are being achieved in air weapons and their complicating effect upon the inte- gration of subsystems . Now I would like to make the point that , as air weapon performances increase and our developmental problems ...
... performance trends that are being achieved in air weapons and their complicating effect upon the inte- gration of subsystems . Now I would like to make the point that , as air weapon performances increase and our developmental problems ...
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Accounting Office Air Force Air Materiel Command aircraft airplane ALLEN associate contractors Atlas ATWOOD audit auditors BAILEY ballistic missile basis Boeing Boeing Co Bomarc BREWTON BUNKER Chairman Colonel BLATTEAU Colonel MEDBERRY committee competition contract price contracting officer Convair Corp correct cost data COURTNEY DAVIS Defense Department of Defense Division Dyna Soar Edward Hébert engineering equipment estimated costs evaluation facilities fixed-price Frank Pace furnished GAVIN going Government GROSS HARDY HÉBERT HESS incentive Lockheed McDonnell Aircraft ment military million NAISH Navy negotiated North American Aviation operational percent performance personnel POWERS price proposals prime contractor procurement production profit purchase orders question Ramo-Wooldridge reasonable records redetermination responsibility Secretary MILNE Secretary TAYLOR SKEEN small business statement subcommittee subcontract prices subsystems target cost target price technical thing tion type of contract weapon system management
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Page 543 - Compensation for personal services includes all remuneration paid currently or accrued, in whatever form and whether paid immediately or deferred, for services rendered by employees to the contractor during the period of contract performance. It includes, but Is not limited to, salaries, wages, directors' and executive committee members...
Page 543 - Salaries and Wages. Salaries and wages for current services include gross compensation paid to employees in the form of cash, products, or services, and are allowable. However, premiums for overtime, extra-pay shifts, and multishift work are allowable to the extent approved pursuant to 12.102.
Page 771 - ... Government-furnished materials, and the general level of business and prices. (c) Rough yardsticks may often be developed (in such terms as dollars per pound, per horsepower, or other units) to point up apparent gross inconsistencies which should be subjected to additional pricing techniques, including cost analysis. Such yardsticks should be considered as an indispensable adjunct to cost analysis, since a study of a single offerer's estimated costs in sole source situations will not indicate...
Page 182 - The committee will stand in recess, subject to call of the Chair. (Whereupon, at 11...
Page 751 - This report is also being sent today to the President of the Senate. Copies are being sent to the President of the United States and to the Secretary of Labor.
Page 401 - Profit or fee is only one element of price and normally represents a smaller proportion of the total price than do such other estimated elements as labor and material. While the public interest requires that excessive profits be avoided, the contracting officer should not become so preoccupied with particular elements of a contractor's estimate of cost and profits that the most important consideration, the total price itself, is distorted or diminished in its significance.
Page 331 - ... provides for the fabrication, purchase, rental, installation or other acquisition, of any item of industrial facilities, or of special tooling having a value in excess of $1,000, or (iv...
Page 218 - If the contracting officer believes that the subcontracting plan submitted pursuant to this section does not reflect the best effort by the bidder to award subcontracts to small and small disadvantaged firms to the fullest extent consistent with the efficient performance...
Page 217 - ... Aircraft, Inc., and is powered by a Pratt & Whitney J-57 turbojet engine. It is designed to carry a nuclear warhead at high speeds and high altitudes against far distant targets, by means of a self-contained guidance system, operating independently of weather, day or night. Snark tests were conducted at the Air Force Missile Test Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., where its long-range accuracy was proved in numerous flights over sea test lanes reaching southward in the Atlantic.
Page 735 - All contracts entered into, amended, or modified pursuant to authority contained in this Act shall include a clause to the effect that the Comptroller General of the United States or any of his duly authorized representatives shall, until the expiration of three years after final payment, have access to and the right to examine any directly pertinent books, documents, papers, and records of the contractor or any of his subcontractors engaged in the performance...