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Fresh Approach Felt Essentia! To Curb Plane Building Delays
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Industry executives who were . And others dismissed it as more
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On-Spot Decisions
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;l"';ft;,;r'cAT"i-:;on help the .intelligence agencies
V-airh imperils r nation! ac unty.) tvaiuate this: Industry leaders
600 officials of the DeDartment i their information.
Also there were suggestions interviewed bv the committee
"committee paper work."
In any case, the 'report itself
has been placed under officinl
security wraps. Tht puzzlts the
industry executives. Some ak,
of Defense and executives of
about 30 aircraft manufacturing
and research organizations. In
August of this year it made its
These included suggestions for j to improve and heighten the sta-1 and who ha'd received the Rob
more concentrated Pentagon and j tUre, prestige and authority of j ertson report recommendations
Air F orce attention to the op- officers assigned to aircraft pro-1 expressed varied reactions. None
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country's air arms, intensified the duty tours of such officers
by policy review of requirements i so they would not be ordered
for new weapons and more at-1 off to other assignments just as
of them felt that the committee
had come up with any fresh ap
proach to the problem. Some felt
that the suggestions amounted
to little more than proposals for
"tightening up" here and there.
findings to Secretary of Defense
Wilson.
About six weeks later some
was it because of ioo much emt
barrassing detail?
Action is whatthey want.
(Copyrifht, 1S5S, New Yoek
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
CO proposals taken from the re-
tentiop by the policy-makers to they were becoming familiar
port were briefly digested and long lead time in technical pro- with the programs.
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q Newi Service
q Washington Can anything be
Odone to endthe cwlays that im
O PrJ today0-f.nis0couatry'i po
oiii,' ion (if morn w."p!anes?
he aircriftandu-try says, yes
great deal. o
q it rt- its leacfcrs warn, by
G crenf.ng moij "study . commit
t5" in Washingtouanti by ac
O riifrlating more voluminous
pYgtagon '(rpportK" and piousiy
O wordca "directives" crt trte sub
O Jcct.
Te pIAe-makers intu' 'that
a tith Approach is essential.
Ani tt the point f attack
n5t be on Pentagon and Air
-4 ore Decision? red tape and
"paper work." They say the axe
mib'0 b'o uscd.O
A Dumber of hii,'!".-raniiing of-
f-'srs in the Fefitagon liave
ajdowith the industry men
in QOf the-record conversations.
Xhehree ht-products of bti-
reauccucyp-in'iycisions, red tape .
and excessive paper work are i
by lilt the biggest causes of de
lays the military aircraft pro
CvrcnienPprQBram, according to
ACiilusty executives in all three
Cmajos. Lvcont-hes, airframes, elec-
O triyrtvs systems and jet engines. ; r'
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Chioi Recommendation!
i ney f. e their views in in-
OteS.e'.vs from the East to the
West Coast during e sixweek
survey 4nio delays in the desiga.
development and "production of
critically needed war planes.
Ther oejief recommendations
jyin hich there was virtually
onaniiawj agreement among
I ay that intelligence agencies are
. overlooking . source material
iv.hich could vitally help it ob
i tain a picture of the nature of
! the potential e.nemy's advanced
technological programs or direc- j
tion of activity. At a time when
technological breakthroughs!
i might top tiie -balance of power, j
they say, this becomes a vital j
matter. . ;
The indastry has various other
; suggestions to offer, but the I
i above embody the main points
for first action toward yielding
j most effective results irr cutting j
i down "lead time'' for new war-,
'planes.
Blame for the three major ,
faults of indecision, red tape and I
; unnecessary paper work was
j generally ascribed by industry
executives to the rapidity with
which the Air Force has expand
ed during'its comparatively brief
existence as a separate service: '
and to the inherent bureauacy of
the military system. j
Many industry men pointed
out. however, that the same bu
reaucratic evils are always in
truding into their own industries
ae these grow larger, but indus
try has learned to cope with
them. This is done, they empha
sized, by the same method they
urge for the Pentagon and Air
rce: that is. by centralizing
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authority at the top and then i
delegating it to the right places
down the line.
The industry is not alone in
criticizing the Pentagon and the
Air "Force for indecision, red
tape and oceans of paper work.
Many persons in positions of re
sponsibility In these official
areas share industry's opinion
and would, they have indicated,
o tf.em are asfollows
O O t? Ce.Uraliye decision-mating i weicome reforms
autnority witnin the Pentagon Secretary of the Air Force
and Aij Force to insure action Donaid Quarles was asked about
O Pla- of present delays. This i tne industry complaints, and dis
(fiiear slashing through the mul- cussing the point made on in
lipticity ci committees and study suli icient delegation of author-
jj-oupcwnica now noia a great itv to override red tape, he said
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C (-fipal f responsibility but little ;
O authority fop originating and ac
Oelcrping programs. '
G t. Assign to eclv aircraft pro
i or the company working
Q onit an of fic"e with the power
A tooiiake on-th-spot decisions on
sll bi basic policy and. budget
Olcs'6ons- Tnis w'Suld end much
of the present buck-passing and
delays in the fower-echelonsup-qO
erv$ion of mth'facturing pro-
I. il wuu.u j;avc iiiojul
ricajglan!P cost decisions to the
O Pg050"! tream-lincd decision
center in Washington?'
- 3. HaVeotl Air Forcelimit
rtse largely to the "what" of
it.Ourcraft desigei objectives and
allow the m:oiufacUy;crs more
freedom to devise he "how" of
niakm,? the planes to these spe--
j'ltied objectives.
Mttust HavS Fteedoan
that was "maybe valid.'
Unbounded Power Lacking
But, he added, the Air Force
doe not have unbounded power
o delegate authority, since it
has to be guided by the Defense
Department and Congress "in the
framework of the international
scene."
Quarles also said that the Air
Force does not have in its ranks
as many "czars" as the aircraft
industry seems to want in decision-making
positions. (One
manufacturer pointed out in re
ply that the Air Force has in
stalled as head of its intercon
tinental ballistic missile pro
gram Maj. Gen. Ben Schriever
who has wide decision-making
power of the very kind urged by
the aircraft industry. The same
thing could be done, the manu-
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rvi'f lower echelon agencies to
cijjm jipervisory jurisdiction,
adding more red tape.
5. Have the Pentagon and Air
institute ovithin the in-
rrvCcontinuinis research and
novel a menVjeffiwt to assure for
aircrait programs constant scien
tific advanced into ngw realms
(.technoloev. In the past, such
research and ri'eelPment has
5(iwed up and down. Inter-.
hitiOcCO near-mcKference were
f ullowd by O'holler-a n d-yell''
peaks cf urgencye which in turn
,-jtapereu off again.
Kesirch an development is,
cfOour.-. hinged to funds which
("one.d proies. Pentain of
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gress xall "guy survival u i:e
situation is presented right.
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facturers would solve all lead
time problems.
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problem is regarded in the Pen
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. This official cited as one ef
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undertaken in September, 1955,
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secretary of Defense Reuben B.
Robertson Jr.
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the problem for about a year, he
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