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Campbell, Hon. Joseph, Comptroller General, etc.—Continued
Statement of Comptroller General Campbell-Continued
Incentive-type contracts----
GAO studying incentive-type contracting-.
Quality of Government negotiations..
Government negotiators often not equipped with available facts.
Policy on negotiators accepting favors...
Department of Defense directive: "Standards of Conduct".
Department of Defense Directive No. 5500.7, dated May 17,
1963, "Standards of Conduct".
Enclosures:
Executive Order 10939, dated May 5, 1961, "To Provide
a Guide on Ethical Standards to Government
Officials"
President's memo, dated May 2, 1963, subject: "Pre-
venting Conflicts of Interest on the Part of Special
Government Employees".
Digest of conflict-of-interest laws: New laws applicable
to full-time officers and employees - - -
New law applicable to former officers and em-
ployees----
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142
154
156
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170
Summary of laws applicable to retired regular offi-
cers not on active duty.
172
Other related criminal laws applicable to all Depart-
ment of Defense personnel.
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175
House Concurrent Resolution 175, 85th Congress, 2d
session: Code of ethics for Government service..
Statement of employment and financial interests. -
Statement of employment: DD form 1357---
Data on disciplinary action regarding DOD personnel violations
of statute or policy set forth in Department of Defense Directive
No. 5500.7, "Standards of Conduct," supplied for the record at
the request of Senator Douglas___
Report on Fort Monmouth for the Joint Economic Committee
hearings, prepared for the record by DOD at the request of
Senator Douglas---
Letter relating to BOB-GAO differences with respect to Federal Government procurement and management of ADPE_
Knott, Lawson B., Jr., Acting Administrator, General Services Adminis-
tration; accompanied by H. A. Abersfeller, Commissioner, Federal Sup-
ply Service; Maurice J. Connell, Commissioner, Defense Materials
Service; Howard Greenberg, Commissioner, Utilization and Disposal
Service; Edmund D. Dwyer, Director, Data Processing Coordination
Staff; and Charles W. Gasque, Jr., Deputy General Counsel - - - -
Letter from Senator Paul H. Douglas to Mr. Knott, dated April 7,
1965.
Prepared statement.
187
Joint DOD/GSA agreement for National Supply System.
Disposal of surplus property.
Plans being developed for petroleum, electronics, and clothing-
textiles--
189
Prepared statement-Continued
Knott, Lawson B., Jr., Acting Administrator, etc.—Continued
Savings by GSA.
Trade-in values__
Letter to Senator Douglas from Mr. Knott, dated May 7, 1965,
regarding surplus vehicles, provided for the record at the request
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191
of Representative Martha Griffiths..
Table: Vehicles sold by General Services Administration_.
National inventory control centers--
Standardization_.
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195
1. Buying volumes and savings through price economies.
2. Item reduction program--
3. Savings through competition_
4. Federal Supply Service, volume and employment trends.
5. General Services Administration-Federal Supply Service..
6. Domestic procurement for offshore use, fiscal years 1961-66-
7. Government use of stockpile excesses..
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8. Disposals of stockpile excesses: Effects on balance of pay-
ments_
217
9. Personal property utilization..
218
10. Personal property rehabilitation..
219
11. Widespread use of ADP in Government requires an ADP shar-
Materials provided for the record at the request of Representative
Martha W. Griffiths.
224
Knott, Lawson B., Jr., Acting Administrator, etc.-Continued
Materials provided for the record, etc.—Continued
Letter to Senator Douglas from Lawson B. Knott transmitting
materials governing retention or disposal of contractor inven-
tory by Government contractors - -
Utilization of personal property.
225
General provision...
227
Utilization of property proposed for processing for
exchange/sale..
228
231
Utilization of excess.
243
247
Utilization of abandoned and forfeited personal propery- Illustrations__.
Staats, Elmer B., Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget; accom-
panied by Roger Jones, Special Assistant to the Director; George G.
Mullins, head of Property and Supply Management Branch, Office of
Management and Organization; Harold Seidman, Assistant Director,
Management and Organization; William Gill, automatic data processing
program; and Cliff Miller, Military Division, Bureau of the Budget---
Letter from Senator Paul H. Douglas to Kermit Gordon, Director of
the Budget, dated April 7, 1965-
Prepared statement..
Cost reduction program.
Circular A-14, dated March 29, 1965, to the heads of executive
departments and establishments, from Kermit Gordon, Di-
rector, Bureau of the Budget; subject, "Cost Reduction and
Management Improvement in Government Operations".
Automatic data-processing program..
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286
Circular A-71, dated March 6, 1965; subject, "Responsibilities
for the Administration and Management of Automatic Data
Processing Activities"
288
Meteorological research_
293
Circular A-62, dated November 13, 1963; subject, "Policies and
Procedures for the Coordination of Federal Meteorological
Services".
A Federal supply and services system..
Consolidated procurement of subsistence supplies..
The civilian portion of the Federal catalog--
Improved management of hospitals_-
Three billion dollars estimated annual Government costs for
ADPE..
306
Government sector utilizes about 30 percent of total outlays for
ADPE...
Tax situation involved in purchase versus lease of ADPE.
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308
309
310
Report of BOB-GAO differences__
Material describing principal difference between views of the
Bureau of the Budget and those of the Comptroller General
on the acquisition of ADP equipment, furnished for the record
by Mr. Staats at the request of the subcommittee_
The position of the Comptroller General___
311
Staats, Elmer B., Deputy Director, etc.-Continued
Material describing principal difference, etc.—Continued
Bureau of the Budget position..
The Federal program.
BOB and GAO need for revolving fund-
Pooling arrangement successfully tested.
312
313
Federal utilization of property excess___
Central role of GSA__
314
Use of computers in R. & D.
Shared revenues..
TVA makes in-lieu payments--
Perishable and nonperishable items..
Storage of foodstuffs..
Government in-house versus contracted-out activities.
Allowance for taxes..
Determining true Government costs, overhead, etc.-
Difficulties in setting standards...
In-lieu payments by the Government_
Impacted aid-to-school program..
Conclusion not yet reached_.
Government ownership versus leasing buildings.
Government-owned communications system...
Definition of costs..
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320
Policy on the Government's commercial-industrial activities_
321
322
Transfer of management of paint and hand tools from DSA to
GSA
Letter from Mr. Staats to Senator Douglas transmitting data on
transfer of management responsibilities for paint and handtools
from the Department of Defense to GSA, dated June 8, 1965,
as requested by Representative Curtis, for inclusion in the
record of the hearings..
Meteorological research, delay in applying technology.
The Federal plan for services and research__
A coordinated program.
Problem of operational needs versus duplication.
Congressional understanding needed. –
Transfer of surplus sales from DSA to GSA_.
BOB outlined conditions to GSA..
Postwar history of surplus sales function___
Correspondence between Bureau of the Budget and General Serv-
ices Administration regarding transfer of surplus sales_-
ices Administration regarding transfer of surplus sales, re-
quested by Representative Curtis to be made part of the record_
Use of catalog to reduce loss of short-shelf-life items_-
Use of special codes in supply .......
APPENDIX
Questions submitted by members of the Subcommittee on Federal
Procurement and Regulation to Department of Defense, Bureau of
the Budget, General Services Administration, with replies thereto.--
GSA exhibit: "Auction Sale, etc.".
Report of the Joint General Services Administration-Department of
Defense Shelf-Life Materials Study Group.-
Appendix A: Memorandum for the Director, Defense Supply
Agency, from Paul H. Riley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense, on "Project To Identify and Use Short-Shelf-Life
Materials".
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382
APPENDIX-Continued
Report of the Joint General Services Administration, etc.—Continued
Appendix B: Extract of the report of the Subcommittee on De-
fence Procurement to the Joint Economic Committee, dated
September 3, 1964..
Appendix C: Shelf-life controls exercised by Federal agencies..
Appendix D: Activities visited...
Appendix E:
Analysis of current shelf-life items.
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394
Table: Summary of shelf-life items as reported by ICP's',
November 15 to December 30, 1964.
395
Table: Examples of items managed by two or more services
with varying shelf-life time periods, as reported by inven-
tory managers..
396
Index of classes..
Appendix F: Shelf-life codes.
402
Appendix G: Table for application of condition code changes for
shelf-life items__.
403
Appendix H: Department of Defense instruction: Identification,
control, and utilization of shelf-life items..
Appendix I: Proposed agreement between GSA and DOD govern-
ing cross servicing of shelf-life assets---
405
Letter from GAO relating to differing views of GAO-BOB re-
garding Federal procurement and regulation of ADPE...
406