WEAPONS, FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT, AMMU- Procurement responsibility assigned to RDX JAN-R-398 Composition B JAN-C-401 Pentolite, 50/50 JAN-P-408 Nitroguanidine (Picrite) JAN-N-494 Excludes Production capacity for any of the above listed , Propellant (for Small Arms Ammunition. 20mm) MIL Propellant (for Small Arms Ammunition, Caliber .45) Propellant, Increment, M8 MIL-P-10557 Propellant, Ignition Cartridge (M9) 60mm and 81mm FSC code 1375 P 1380 1390 P 2350 6910 P Commodities WEAPONS, FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT, AMMU- Powder, Rocket Propellant, Type N-4 MIL-P-16401 Propellant Cannon, M1, M6, M14 JAN-P-309 Propellant, Cannon, M2, M5 JAN-P-323 Propellant, 4.2 In. Chemical Mortar JAN-P-381 Propellant, M7 JAN-P-659 Propellant, M15 and M17 JAN-P-668 Propellant, M10 JAN-P-715 Propellant (for Small Arms Ammunition, Cals. .30 and Propellant, Cartridge, Grenade Carbine, Cal. .30, M6 Propellant, M13, 7/8 Inch Stick 50-12-22 Propellant (Powder for Small Arms Ammunition, Cal. Rocket Propellant Powder NAVORD OS 3383 Excludes: Production capacity for any of the above listed Fuzes and Primers..... Includes: Fuzes and primers for Army assigned ammuni- Excludes: Naval Ordnance type; V.T. fuzes, rotating type, Tanks and Self-propelled Weapons..... Procurement responsibility assigned to Army Army Army Army Army Includes: Training aids as listed in Army Supply Manuals Excludes: All other training aids not included above. 6920 P Armament Training Devices... Army Includes: Armament training devices as listed in Army cluded above. 8140 P Ammunition Boxes, Packages, and Special Containers............... Includes: Boxes, packages and containers for ammunition Army herein assigned to the Army. Excludes: All other boxes, packages and containers not assigned herein. WEAPONS, FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT, AMMU- Procurement responsibility assigned to Includes: Armor-piercing; depth bombs; externally sus pended low drag bombs; and components and practice bombs therefor, as listed in Ord Pamphlet 1280(C) 4925 P Includes: Fuzes and primers for Navy assigned ammuni- Includes: Sets, kits, and outfits of explosive Ordnance tools and equipment as defined in OPNAV 8020.1; AR 755– Excludes: All others not included above. Navy Navy 8140 P Ammunition Boxes, Packages, and Special Containers......... Navy munition, only. 1 Army responsible for loading, assembling and packing toxicological, smoke and incendiary shells. ➡ Loading, assembling and packing in excess of Navy owned capacity to be done by Army. "Filler and filling of all smoke and toxicological rockets are assigned to the Army. Mr. MILLER. Mr. Chairman, may I ask a question? Mr. HÉBERT. Yes. Mr. MILLER. General, when did the Navy assign the responsibility for the procurement of all medical supplies? General ENGLER. I am not sure of the exact date of that, sir. I can't answer. Mr. MILLER. You remember during the war, during the Korean affair, we had the single supply area or base in Alameda, Calif., the so-called Alameda Medical Depot. It successfully handled all the medical supplies used during that time. Then shortly after that it was broken up and the medical supplies were assigned to the three services, at a goodly cost. They had to build $250,000 worth of additional sheds and housing and shops to take care of this. I just want to find out about that, because they proved it could be done. I think it is a rather glowing example of making a great test. It has been on the floor. The Government Operations Committee made studies of it. Frankly, I could never understand it. I was very much interested in knowing, now, when we were going to put them together, and when they were put together again. General ENGLER. This was in 1956, sir. And actually the single managership goes beyond just procurement. It also makes the service having the single-managership responsibility responsible for the control of the inventories as well as the procurement of the item itself. So it involves a supply as well as a procurement responsibility. Mr. HARDY. Mr. Chairman Mr. HÉBERT. Mr. Hardy Mr. HARDY. General, you spoke of the procurement panel and you mentioned some rather high-powered individuals that were members of that panel. I wasn't sure that I understood just what purpose they served in going around to the various installations. General ENGLER. This panel, as I said, has functioned for 3 years, sir. The purpose is to get together with the contracting officers, that is the procurement people, countrywide. Mr. HARDY. Well, I can understand that. But for what purpose? Just to stimulate morale? General ENGLER. No. The panel was to permit the procurement people an opportunity to bring forth problems or questions or difficulties which they had experienced in the field of procurement in order that we might hear and discuss those difficulties directly and determine wherein there were areas that policy should be changed because of difficulties that hadn't been recognized. Mr. HARDY. That is the thing I wanted to understand. Then, they would have to be problems that would lead into policy decisions, because certainly this group would not have been concerned with the detailed operational procurement aspects. General ENGLER. We particularly asked them, sir, to avoid discussing and trying to get a decision on an individual case, but rather to take cases and build around these cases a generalized problem which. indicated to us that we were weak in the policy or instructions in that area. Mr. HARDY. Well, if you were dealing with policy I could understand it. But if you had a high-powered group like that going around talking about procurement details, it would seem to me it would be a tremendous waste of manpower. 29137 0-59-5 General ENGLER. No, it wasn't for that purpose. Mr. HÉBERT. All right. General ENGLER. I would like now to introduce Mr. Emanuel Kintisch of the Procurement Division of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Mr. Kintisch Mr. COURTNEY. You have a prepared statement, Mr. Kintisch. We will follow your statement. STATEMENT OF EMANUEL KINTISCH, CHIEF OF REGULATIONS SECTION, PROCUREMENT DIVISION, OFFICE OF THE ARMY DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS Mr. KINTISCH. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Emanuel Kintisch. I am the Chief of the Regulations Section in the Procurement Division, Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Since June 1956, I have been the Army's policy member on the Armed Services Procurement Regulation Committee. It is the purpose of my presentation to furnish to your committee information concerning processes involved in the preparation and issuance of procurement regulatory material by the Department of the Army. Mr. COURTNEY. May I interrupt right there? Mr. KINTISCH. Certainly. Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Chairman, so we may focus attention on the regulatory material of which Mr. Kintisch speaks, I have before me in this volume here the Army procurement procedures which are involved in what Mr. Kintisch will explain. Now, in addition to this material there is some direction and guidance contained in the Army regulations, as such. It is not in great volume, but it is nevertheless a matter of source material for contracting officers. And to that-and we will not touch on it here-to that must be added the instructions of the several installations, which are more or less personal instructions from the responsible individual to subordinates, but do not go into the broader questions of policy. Mr. HARDY. Now, Mr. Chairman, do I understand just that one volume is the procedures and not the whole batch of them? Mr. COURTNEY. No, that is Army. Mr. HARDY. That is Army. Mr. COURTNEY. Before me I have the act. This is the armed services procurement regulations. And beyond it is the Army implementation of the Armed Services Procurement Act and regulations, which Mr. Kintisch is going to explain in detail-the evolution of which he is going to explain. I call attention to the fact that there are Army regulations which are in addition to the material here, which in some few instances deal with procurement policy matters and directions. That we do not have. Mr. HARDY. The other stack of stuff that is there is not part of the same thing Mr. COURTNEY. No, this is Department of the Air Force, and this is Department of the Navy. Mr. HÉBERT. The Air Force has three volumes? Mr. HESS. Yes. |