Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Army Headquarters announced yesterday that all law school students and most graduate students who have not completed two years of military science training are no longer eligible for any Army Reserve Officer Training (ROTC) program...
According to Senator Proxmire, however, the Defense Department acts "as if the law is something that they can take or leave, and decided to leave it." He's probably right. A GAO survey of 242 firms conducted from April 1965 to June 1966 found only 20 in full compliance. The reason is the Defense Department had never sent the correct forms requesting the cost information. They were gathering dust in a warehouse...
...abysmal failure to implement the "Truth in Negotiations Law" causes the greatest runoff in defense funds. From minimal spot-checking over a ten-year period, the GAO has turned up some $130 million in overcharges to the government. Senator Proxmire attributes "billions of dollars" to this failure. The absence of many Defense cost records and the shoddiness of others makes it impossible to calculate the exact amount of wastage, but every indication points toward a multi-billion dollar...
...neglects to post-audit any of its contracts, and has purposely avoided post-auditing Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contracts. (FFP contracts account for $22 billion in procurement!) In the past DOD failed to post-audit FFP contracts not because it didn't have the authority--the Truth in Negotiations Law gave them the authority--but because there were no internal regulations requiring it. Under intense Congressional pressure, McNamara finally established such regulations last October. Whether they will be enforced remains to be seen...
...days ago, the Navy Department announced a new program for students currently enrolled in, or accepted by, an accredited law school...