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...contractors have widely ignored a DOD regulation requiring them to keep official records of government property in their possession. The GAO also found that some contractors have so much government-owned industrial equipment that it is either little used or used extensively for commercial work. Contractors frequently disregard regulations requiring advanced approval from the Office of Emergency Planning before using government-owned machine tools for commercial purposes more than 25 per cent of the time. One Cleveland corporation was lent a $1.4 million steel press at low rentals and subsequently used the press more than three-quarters of the time...
...report also charged that the DOD fails to apply rental rates uniformly and to collect all it is owed. In one case where the Defense Department charged a contractor $226,400 for rent, the GAO calculated that $809,000 should have been collected...
Inkeles, professor of Sociology, is also working on a project partially supported by Air Force funds and has been given DOD grants in the past. Like Lipset, Inkeles uses both government money and money from private foundations for his work...
...large majority of DOD grants to Harvard professors--"over 90 per cent" according to Gentry--are given to professors who seek money for their own projects...
M.I.T. has several buildings that are devoted exclusively to classified research for the Defense Department, he said. And in Bedford, M.I.T. conducts DOD work at its Lincoln Laboratories...