C. OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES In addition to the organization changes and the improvements in supply and procurement management I have just discussed, we have undertaken a number of other important steps to consolidate or harmonize activities of the Department in which more than one service is concerned. One such technique is to assign responsibility to the service with the predominant interest. Military space projects were obviously eligible for this treatment; accordingly, last spring the Air Force was designated to be the Department's primary agent in the research and development of space programs and projects-except when special circumstances dictate otherwise. In the case of geodesy, mapping, and charting, each of the services have had substantial interests and capabilities in the field. While a single service assignment would have been highly impractical, steps could be taken to eliminate unnecessary duplication. What we did was to define clearly the tasks to be accomplished and assign the appropriate pieces to each of the services. In this way coordinated accomplishment of the total job is assured, and inefficiency and overlapping efforts are eliminated. Within my own staff I have made a large number of less sweeping changes all designed to clarify and clearly assign responsibilities, to consolidate natural groups of functions, abolish time-consuming and outdated procedures and committees, provide personnel and increased attention for new functions, and finally, to provide for a systematic approach to the continuing problem of adapting the organization of the whole Department to changing needs and conditions. With this in mind, I have taken the following actions, some of which have been reported to you before (1) Consolidated the offices of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower, Personnel, and Reserve and the Assistant Secetary of Defense, Health and Medical into a single office, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower. (2) Consolidated the offices of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Supply and Logistics and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Properties and Installations into a single office, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Installations and Logistics. (3) Established a new office, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Civil Defense. (4) Created an Assistant Secretary of Defense to be a deputy to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. (5) Created within the Comptroller's staff a new Office of Programing. (6) Expanded the Policy Planning Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. (7) Created an Office of Economic Adjustment within the staff of the Assistant Secretary of Installations and Logistics. (8) Realined the responsibilities of the Assistant and Under Secretaries in the military departments to correspond more closely with my own staff. (9) Provided an additional deputy for the Director of the Joint Staff, and organized a Requirements Division under the Office of Plans and Policy. Joint Staff. (10) Abolished or transferred the functions of over 500 boards and committees. As problems in the organization and management of the Department continue to emerge, they will be studied and whatever management improvements are necessary will be made. If it is found that existing statutory limitations on the management and organization of the Department inhibit or otherwise encumber the proper and effective administration of the Department, the Congress will be so notified and provided with all the facts which justify a statutory change. But no such request will be made unless it is absolutely necessary. XI. FINANCIAL SUMMARY The programs proposed for fiscal year 1963 including military assistance, military construction and civil defense, aggregate $53,876,700,000 in total obligational authority. A summary by major programs, for fiscal years 1962 and 1963 is shown in table 1. Of the $53,876,700,000 in obligational authority required to finance the 1963 program The sum of $1,440,300,000 would be obtained from prior-year funds available for new programs, including balances brought forward and recoupments anticipated during the year (assuming that the Congress will remove the limitation on the use of the $514,500,000 appropriated last year for the procurement of B-52's). $445 million would be obtained by transfer from the working capital funds of the Department of Defense in lieu of new appropriations, and $351,400,000 would be obtained from anticipated reimbursements which would be available to finance new programs, leaving $51,640 million of new obligational authority which is the amount requested in the President's fiscal year 1963 budget. A detailed tabulation relating the appropriation accounts to the major program accounts, and the total obligational authority to the new obligational authority requested of the Congress in the 1963 budget is shown on table 3. (Comparable data for 1962 are shown on table 2.) Of the $51,640 million of new obligational authority requested— The sum of $1,500 million is for military assistance which will be presented separately. $1,318 million is for military construction which will be presented separately. $695 million is for civil defense which will be presented separately, and $220 million is associated with proposed legislation and is being transmitted separately. This amount includes $30 million for military retired pay, $150 million for basic allowances for quarters, and $40 million for military personnel per diem travel allowances. Thus, the bill now before this committee would provide $47,907 million in new obligational authority and $445 million to be derived by transfer from working capital funds. |