Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 |
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... practices___ November 20 and November 25 , 1968 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy memoranda responding to H. G. Rickover's November 13 , 1968 , memo- randum on the need for improvements in ship procurement practices and stating these ...
... practices___ November 20 and November 25 , 1968 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy memoranda responding to H. G. Rickover's November 13 , 1968 , memo- randum on the need for improvements in ship procurement practices and stating these ...
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... practices and cost control under Navy contracts at Electric Boat Divi- sion , General Dynamics . ( No record exists of a response to this memo- randum . ) __ March 25 , 1970 - H . G. Rickover letter to Senator William Proxmire ...
... practices and cost control under Navy contracts at Electric Boat Divi- sion , General Dynamics . ( No record exists of a response to this memo- randum . ) __ March 25 , 1970 - H . G. Rickover letter to Senator William Proxmire ...
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... practices Encl : ( 1 ) Examples of Recent Procurements Recommended by Shipbuilders but Which Were Overpriced 1. The rising cost of naval ship construction has been a matter of considerable concern to the Navy . I believe that a large ...
... practices Encl : ( 1 ) Examples of Recent Procurements Recommended by Shipbuilders but Which Were Overpriced 1. The rising cost of naval ship construction has been a matter of considerable concern to the Navy . I believe that a large ...
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... practices , placing particular emphasis on the lack of true competition available , both at the prime contract and subcontract levels and on the depth of contractor and government review being performed on these pro- curements . If ...
... practices , placing particular emphasis on the lack of true competition available , both at the prime contract and subcontract levels and on the depth of contractor and government review being performed on these pro- curements . If ...
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... Practices Your memorandum of 13 November has been read with a great deal of interest . As you indicate , the rising cost of ship construction has been a matter of great concern to the Navy for some time . The entire matter of SCN ...
... Practices Your memorandum of 13 November has been read with a great deal of interest . As you indicate , the rising cost of ship construction has been a matter of great concern to the Navy for some time . The entire matter of SCN ...
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action Admiral Rickover Assistant Secretary audit basis Boat's change orders Chief of Naval clause COMNAVSHIPS contract changes contractor cost accounting standards cost and pricing Counsel CPSR deficiencies delay and disruption Department Department of Defense Deputy Commander Dynamics Electric Boat Division Enclosure escalation evaluation H. G. Rickover Ingalls Shipbuilding Installations and Logistics issue labor Litton claim Litton Systems million Naval Material Commander Naval Reactors Naval Sea Systems Naval Ship Systems NAVSEA NAVSHIPS 08 Navy contracts Navy Installations NAVY NAVAL SEA NAVY NAVAL SHIP Navy's negotiations Newport News Shipbuilding Nuclear Propulsion obtain overhaul overtime Pascagoula percent personnel pricing data problems procedures procurement profit progress payments proposed recommend REPLY REFER requested response Review Team Rickover memorandum schedule Sea Systems Command ship construction Ship Systems Command Shipbuilding and Dry shipbuilding claims shipyard steel subcontract Subj Supervisor of Shipbuilding suppliers SUPSHIP SYSTEMS COMMAND WASHINGTON technical Tenneco Truth-in-Negotiations Act yard
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Page 279 - The decision of the Secretary or his duly authorized representative for the determination of such appeals shall be final and conclusive unless determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been fraudulent, or capricious, or arbitrary, or so grossly erroneous as necessarily to imply bad faith, or not supported by substantial evidence.
Page 475 - If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Page 279 - Disputes" clause does not preclude consideration of law questions in connection with decisions provided for in paragraph (a) above: Provided, That nothing in this contract shall be construed as making final the decision of any administrative official, representative, or board on a question of law.
Page 445 - Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a court of equity properly includes all acts, omissions and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence, justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another.
Page 279 - No Government contract shall contain a provision making final on a question of law the decision of any administrative official, representative, or board.
Page 444 - A generic term embracing all multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise, and which are resorted to by one individual to get advantage over another by false suggestions or by suppression of truth, and includes all surprise, trick cunning, dissembling, and any unfair way by which another is cheated.
Page 443 - An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right ; a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury.
Page 444 - ... deceitful practices in depriving or endeavoring to deprive another of his known right by means of some artful device or plan contrary to the plain rules of common honesty...
Page 222 - ... procedures. Each contracting officer is responsible for performing or having performed all administrative actions necessary for effective contracting. The contracting officer shall...
Page 184 - There seems to be a tendency by some defense officials to view the shipbuilding claims problem as simply a problem in human relations. In actuality it is strictly one of money. If a shipbuilder is going to hold out for more than he is legally owed, his relations with the Navy will deteriorate until either he convinces the Navy to pay whatever he wants, regardless of legal entitlement ; or, until the Navy convinces him he will be paid only what he is legally owed, regardless of pressures the company...