The Role of Small Business in Defense Missile Procurement, 1958: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on the Participation of Small Business in the Missile, Rocket, and Outer Space Exploration Programs of the Department of Defense. April 29, 30, and May 1, 1958 |
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ABMA Admiral DIXON Admiral RABORN Air Force aircraft Army Ballistic Missile Army Ordnance Assistant awarded Ballistic Missile Agency BANTZ Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Ordnance capability Chairman Command committee companies components Convair Department of Defense direct Director division effort engineering Explorer III facilities fiscal year 1958 furnished GOLEM Government guided missiles HOLADAY Huntsville industry James Dreyfus Jupiter-C launching major manufacture MCGUIRE ment military million Missile Command missile field missile procurement missile system Navy negotiated Nike-Ajax operations percent performance prime contractors procedures production purchasing questions Redstone Arsenal request research and development responsibility rocket satellite Secretary of Defense security clearance Senator BIBLE Senator SMATHERS Senator SPARKMAN Senator THYE Signal Corps small business small-business concerns small-business firms small-business program small-business specialists specific stage statement STULTS subcontracting subcontracting program systems contractor technical tion United States Army utilized WEADOCK weapon system
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Page 13 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 233 - To that commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission who is responsible for the supervision of the Bureau of Service of the Commission, with respect to domestic transportation, storage, and port facilities, or the use thereof, but excluding air transport, coastwise, intercoastal, and overseas shipping.
Page 238 - Emergency period" means the period beginning January 1, 1950, and ending on the date on which the President proclaims that the utilization of a substantial portion of the emergency facilities with respect to which Necessity Certificates have been made is no longer required in the interest of national defense. (c) "Certifying Authority" means the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning.
Page 238 - ... new or specialized defense items or components of new or specialized defense items (as defined in paragraph (4) during the emergency period, (B) to provide research, developmental, or experimental services during the emergency period for the Department of Defense (or one of the component departments of such Department), or for the Atomic Energy Commission, as a part of the national defense program...
Page 238 - Sec. 3. Criteria for determination of portion of the adjusted basis attributable to defense purposes for computing the amortization deduction. Determination will be made by the Certifying Authority as to the portion of the adjusted basis upon which the amortization deduction under section 168(a) shall be computed.
Page 238 - New or specialized defense item. The term "new or specialized defense item" means only an item (excluding services) — (i) which is produced, or will be produced, for sale to the Department of Defense (or one of the component departments of such Department), or to the Atomic Energy Commission, for...
Page 238 - Emergency facility" means any facility, land, building, machinery, or equipment, or any part thereof, the acquisition of which occurred after December 31, 1949, or the construction, reconstruction, erection, or installation of which was completed after such date. and with respect to which a certificate under section 168 (e) has been made.
Page 125 - Government should aid. counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 241 - Authority will not certify the accuracy of the cost of any facility nor of any date relative to the construction, reconstruction, erection, installation or acquisition thereof. It will be incumbent upon taxpayers electing to take the amortization deduction to establish to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue the identities of the facilities, the costs thereof, and the dates relative thereto.
Page 230 - The suitability of other like Government-owned facilities under the control of the Department of Defense, regardless of present occupancy, that are located within a reasonable distance of the proposed site, and the possibility of joint usage.