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When scandals over weapons procurement began to shake public support for the President's defense buildup, the White House created a commission last summer to recommend management reforms. But it soon became clear that the commission, chaired by David Packard, multimillionaire businessman (Hewlett- Packard) and former Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Administration, would affirm that billions of defense dollars had in fact been wasted...
Worried that the report would appear just as the President was launching his campaign for more defense spending, White House and Defense Department officials scrambled to try to keep the Packard commission from undercutting the President's defense budget crusade. Indeed, a draft by Commission Member James Woolsey, who was Navy Under Secretary during the Carter Administration, vividly depicted Pentagon shortcomings. One passage, for instance, compared stewardship of the Pentagon to the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the master magician's young helper who learned how to start the magic but not how to stop...
Several word processing operations in the Square said they are also looking into laserprinting. Mulberry Studio on Mt. Auburn Street already uses the Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer with IBM PCs and Displaywriters. Cost for printing is 25 cents per page, and any formatting work done is charged at $25 an hour...
...their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look into charges of Pentagon waste and mismanagement, concluded that "fundamental" changes should be made in the way the Pentagon buys weapons. On Capitol Hill, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin launched a series of hearings addressing the question, What have...
...James Schlesinger and General David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Drawing from this discussion and two years of study, the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee will release a 600-page report this week calling for sweeping structural changes. The presidential commission chaired by Packard is expected to send its own recommendations for reform to the White House in December...