PROPOSED INCREASES IN PROGRAM (1) An increase of $9,037,000 for additional logistic support in direct support of active operating forces. Provides for additional employment, military temporary additional duty travel and all civilian travel, fire and security protection, local transportation and weight handling equipment, increased generation or procurement of utilities necessitated by increased activity of operating naval forces at naval stations, naval bases and naval operating bases. Includes emergency repair of deteriorated facilities, procurement of materials and equipment, and maintenance of buildings and structures as may be needed to provide for continuing and increased logistic support furnished the operating forces. These funds are urgently required for the Pacific area overseas bases and stations and for those activities in the west coast areas where the effects of the current far eastern operations are directly felt. (2) An increase of $4,490,000 for procurement of nonpassenger-carrying vehicles.— In order to meet the impact of the required expansion of facilities and increased workload at naval stations, naval bases, and naval operating bases, an increase in the automotive fleet will be required. It is estimated that funds in the amount of $4,490,000 will be required to procure the following nonpassenger-carrying vehicles: The June 30, 1950, inventory of non-passenger-carrying vehicles was 6,067 units of which 50 percent are overage and could not be expected to absorb any degree of increased workload without severe or complete breakdown. The 2,222 units to be procured represent a 35 percent increase in the number of units to be operated and is considered the operational minimum. It is planned to assign a majority of the new units to activities directly affected by the present situation such as naval bases, naval operating bases, and naval stations located in the Fifth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth Naval Districts and in area commands of the Pacific as increased fleet activities will demand a proportional increase in automotive requirements to support the fleet operations. (1) An increase of $4,200,000 for procurement of communications equipment.The upward revision of the operating level of the Navy in support of the Korean and western Pacific United Nations effort necessitates augmentation and expansion of the Navy communication system and other special communication supplementary activity to meet current communication demands and to provide for a beginning build-up to increase the operating capacity of the system to meet anticipated demands for more rapid and more secure communications. A total of $4,200,000 is required for equipments to increase the capacity of the system in order to accomplish the added communications job required of the situation. Those necessary equipments needed to correct the critical deficiencies of the Navy communications system are: (2) An increase of $1,412,000 for leased and commercial communication facilities.-— These funds are required to lease those necessary additional telephone and teletype tie lines needed to expedite the job of increasing the operational level of the Navy. (3) An increase of $3,179,000 for increasing the operational level of the Navy communication system. These funds are required for the necessary increases in the operational level of the Navy communication system in direct support of the Korean and western Pacific policy. This provides for communications implementation by utilizing an additional 510 man-years of civilian personnel at an estimated cost of $1,710,000. The additional personnel requested will (a) permit reassignment of some military personnel to the fleet and to classified billets, and (b) provide for the necessary system augmentation to support the increased communication load. It is estimated that the over-all system traffic load during the last month has increased 60 percent and in some specific areas increases in excess of 100 percent have been noted. The classified traffic load has increased approximately 200 percent during the same period. Other maintenance and operation items included in this request provide for the system increases in the power requirements and supplies and materials necessary for the increased communications load. 4. Naval records centers: Senate bill, 1951. Proposed supplemental__ Revised requirement, 1951-----. PROPOSED INCREASES IN PROGRAM $1,243, 965 +60, 000 1, 303, 965 (1) An increase of $30,000 is requested for 10 additional employees for the naval records management centers.-The additional employees are required to facilitate the return of service records and health records to the Bureau of Naval Personnel and Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of men returning to active duty. The present personnel is not sufficient to perform this service with the necessary speed. A slight increase at three other centers will be necessary in order to accelerate the retirement of records from office areas to the center and to return records of reserve-fleet vessels being reactivated. The Mechanicsburg Center will require the services of one additional clerk to facilitate the return of personnel records of former civilians being rehired. (2) An increase of $30,000 is requested to support the microfilm program.-Funds requested are for supplies and equipment to support an expanded microfilm program for the reproduction, duplication, and dissemination of vital records for security purposes. 5. Hydrographic Office: Senate bill, 1951. Proposed supplemental Revised requirements, 1951. PROPOSED INCREASES IN PROGRAM $4,598, 000 425,000 5,023, 000 (1) An increase of $109,000 for 37 additional civilian positions. The additional personnel is necessary to meet the increasing demands for charts, publications and periodicals, especially in the distribution phase where the workload has increased tremendously as a result of requests for emergency shipments to supply force requirements due to the Far Eastern situation. This provides for the production and distribution of approach, bombardment, and air-support charts for amphibious operations; oceanographic charts and related publications for undersea warfare and escort and convoy operations; navigational and special charts and publications required in connection with reactivation of naval vessels; and for the acceleration of compiling and processing of existing data for the production of new charts and related publications covering strategical areas. (2) An increase of $171,000 for the payment of overtime to civilian personnel.Provides for approximately 69,000 overtime hours required to supplement the operations outlined above which cannot be entirely met during regular working hours, including overtime work in connection with the air objective folder program. (3) An increase of $20,000 for printing and reproduction.-Provides for printing of additional quantities of periodicals and publications such as Sailing Directions, Notice to Mariners, manuals and tables, bulletins, and certain oceanographic publications as well as emergency requirements for special publications necessary for operational support of the fleet and merchant marine. (4) An increase of $100,000 for the procurement of chart paper.—To provide for the replacement of chart paper which will be consumed in producing charts required as a result of the current far eastern operations. This replacement is necessary to prevent the depletion of existing stocks and to insure an adequate inventory to meet mobilization demands. (5) An increase of $25,000 for procurement of miscellaneous supplies and equipment. To provide for the purchase of shipping boxes and cartons, photographic and lithographic printing supplies, drafting supplies, etc., and replacement parts for reproduction and shipping equipment, necessitated by increased usage in producing and distributing larger quantities of charts and publications. (1) An increase of $1,143,000 for "Extraordinary military expenses." ."-Details of the increase will be presented by other representatives of the Department of the Navy. For justification purposes the increase for departmental administrative expenses is divided into three parts: (1) An increase of $2,061,000 for the Executive Office of the Secretary. (2) An increase of $426,000 for the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. (3) An increase of $73,000 for the Office of the Judge Advocate General. 9 (a) Departmental administration, EXOS: Senate bill, 1951.. Revised requirements, 1951---. $5, 109, 912 +2, 061, 000 7, 170, 912 PROPOSED INCREASE IN PROGRAM (1) An increase of 6.7 man-years totaling $35,075 for "General supervision of the Naval Establishment.-Included in this function are the Secretary's immediate office and the Office of the Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Air, as well as the Office of Public Relations through which the Secretary executes a coordinated public-relations program for the Naval Establishment. This increase results from the expansion of the Naval Establishment which will require extensive supervision and control. (2) An increase of 58.6 man-years totaling $295,975 for "Program coordination and control."-This function relates to programs dealing with (1) the procurement, contracting, and production of material, including the coordination of industrial mobilization planning and provision of legal services, (2) the determination of stock levels and replenishment requirements in collaboration with the Chief of Naval Operations, (3) the administration of inventory control systems, (4) the procurement and policy administration of civilian personnel of the Naval Establishment, and (5) the administration of the naval petroleum reserves. Included are the Office of Naval Material, the Office of General Counsel, the Office of Industrial Relations, and the Office of Naval Petroleum Reserves. The Korean incident with its immediate resultant demands for additional material and personnel for the Naval Establishment requires an acceleration in the operations of the Office of Naval Material and the Office of Industrial Relations to effectuate policies on personnel and material procurement, contracting, production, inspection, and distribution of material. (3) An increase of 169.9 man-years totaling $775,200 for "Management and administrative services."-"Management and administrative services" encompass those functions relating to (1) the management of the fiscal affairs of the Navy, including the preparation of the Navy budget, (2) the planning and reviewing of the management programs of the Navy, and (3) the provision of certain administrative services for the Department such as telephone, mail, and supply. Included are the Office of the Comptroller, Office of the Management Engineer, Office of Industrial Survey, and the Administrative Office, Navy Department. A recapitulation of the requirements of this function follows: The increase for the Administrative Office will implement the following department-wide services: The additional funds requested for the Comptroller will augment the present staffs in accordance with the provisions of the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (Public Law 216, 81st Cong.). The additional staff required is contained in the 1952 budget. However, the increased scale of planning for the readiness and logistical support of the operating forces has advanced the plans for augmentation of the staff of the Comptroller to the current fiscal year. Increases requested for the Office of the Management Engineer and the Office of Industrial Survey are the result of the additional workload of the Navy Department. (4) An increase of 6.4 man-years totaling $22,700 for the Secretary's boards.— Secretary's boards include those which have been established to assist the Secretary of the Navy on matters pertaining to promotion, retirement, discharge and the like involving military and former military personnel. Increase results from the enlargement of the Naval Establishment. (5) An increase of $514,800 for reimbursement to Public Buildings Services for implementation of the departmental security program.-An additional 90 guards will be required for all exits and entrances to Navy Department buildings to meet the minimum requirements of the Secretary of Defense departmental security program. (6) An increase of $213,000 for overtime of staff assigned to the Executive Office of the Secretary.-Section 604 (a) of Public Law 106, Seventy-ninth Congress, establishes a basic administrative workweek of 40 hours. The Far East operation has required certain employees of the Executive Office of the Secretary to work in excess of 40 hours and funds are not available for the payment of this overtime. Under the present circumstances, compensatory time to offset this overtime is not feasible. (7) An increase of $204,250 for other expenses.-This increment provides for expenses of (a) civilian travel, (b) postage, (c) rental of tabulating equipment, (d) printing and reproduction, (e) office moving and alterations, (f) supplies and equipment, which are directly related to the expansion of the Naval Establishment. 9 (b) Departmental administration, CNO: Senate bill, 1951.. Revised requirement, 1951__. PROPOSED INCREASES IN PROGRAM $2, 183, 750 426, 000 2, 609, 750 (1) An increase of $263,500 for 88 additional civilian positions.-Additional civilian employees will be required to meet an expanded workload in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations resulting from increased requirements for operational readiness of naval forces, including logistic and personnel planning for partial mobilization and the maintenance of up-to-date information on the location, readiness, and state of naval personnel and equipment including naval aviation and the submarine service. This personnel will be required to perform stenographic, clerical, and technical duties related to: The reactivation of aircraft and fleet units; the reassignment of units to strengthen the Pacific Fleet; the scheduling of vessels for reactivation, overhaul and modernization; the processing of aircraft statistics, personnel records and war reports; increased machine records on personnel, logistics, fleet and aircraft; increased volume of mail and communications; additional workload in the development of guided missiles and atomic energy. (2) An increase of $95,000 for payment of overtime.—This is estimated as a minimum overtime requirement for civilian staff in order to keep pace with the increased workload which has developed in logistic and personnel planning and all other duties related to the increased readiness of the naval operating forces. It will provide for approximately 47,500 hours of overtime at an average cost of approximately $2 per hour. In terms of the civilian staff of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, it will provide approximately 3.7 hours per week per employee during fiscal year 1951. (3) An increase of $67,500 for related operating costs.—This increase is required to provide for additional requirements for: Office supplies and materials; office furniture and equipment including safe combination files for proper storage of classified material; moving and expansion of offices and alterations to office space; military temporary additional duty travel; and increased activity in printing and reproduction of directives and United States Fleet technical and operating manuals and instructions. 9 (c). Departmental administration, JAG: Senate bill, 1951. $441, 800 73, 000 Revised requirements, 1951... 514, 800 |