The Air Force has made available to the Navy excess quarters at Fort McAndrew, Argentia, Newfoundland. This permits full utilization of existing facilities. An urgently needed Navy communication unit has been established at an oversea Air Force station and another at an Army oversea station. A third is to be established at another Air Force oversea station. It is estimated that an initial saving of about $320,000 has resulted from the use of Army and Air Force housing and other facilities at the locations where Navy communication units have been established and that an annual saving in maintenance cost of $3,200 will accrue to the Navy. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Establishment of the Research and Development Board has made available considerable information on research projects of other services and has resulted in eliminating unwarranted duplication. For example, the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy has been able to avoid the expenditure of approximately $958,000 on various projects because of this information. They include development of a lightweight airborne D-4 tractor, ice mechanic's kit, and highly technical warfare-defense equipment. Through coordination of the efforts of the services in carrying out research and development projects, and sharing in benefits of these projects, it is estimated that a one-time saving of $6,912,000 has been made, with an annual recurring saving of $5,156,400. The report lists about 40 projects in which the services cooperated. For example, the Corps of Engineers and the Navy cooperated in developing a miniature gyro compass for navigation. The projects range in scope from petroleum storage to guided-missile research. INTER-SERVICE CONSTRUCTION The Navy recently undertook construction for the Army of a joint-use coldstorage building and Army facilities at Adak, construction of Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Va., and Air Force facilities in the vicinity of Point Barrow, Alaska. The Army is constructing a bachelor officers' quarters for the Navy at Sangley Point in the Philippines. Within the United States, the Army is performing dredging work at the White Sands Proving Grounds, Las Cruces, N. Mex., and is handling the design and construction of housing facilities and telemetering facilities. The value of the work is approximately $8,000,000, and it is estimated that a saving on overhead of $306,000 is being made. CATALOGING Work is under way looking toward establishment of a single system of cataloging items of supply used by the National Military Establishment to replace 15 systems now in use. Each item ultimately will be identified under one name and one description and will be given one identification number. It is estimated the work will cut in half the 5,000,000 items now cataloged. ORDNANCE The Army Ordnance Department, by recent arrangement with the Air Force, will do the accounting job on spare parts for both services at ordnance stockcontrol points without duplication of records except for budget items. The annual saving is estimated at $208,675. FINANCE Various finance functions, including examination of accounts of disbursing officers, other auditing and accounting, and administering allotments and family allowances, are being performed for the Air Force by the Army. The saving through avoidance of duplicating personnel has not been estimated. HYDROGRAPHICS The services have coordinated the National Facsimile Network for distribution of weather maps at an annual estimated saving of $199,213. The Navy and Air Force have agreed upon common use of various navigation, bombardment, and target charts and instrument-approach procedures. They also are cooperating in a study of snow and ice conditions in the Arctic region. MISCELLANEOUS The report estimates that a one-time saving of $1,792,000 and an annual saving of $1,339,000 have been made by miscellaneous unifications. It has been impossible so far to estimate the saving on a majority of projects listed in this category. For example, the Navy now supplies, times, and repairs all chronometers used by the Army on a reimbursable basis, saving duplication of facilities and personnel and helping carry naval overhead in this field. The Quartermaster General contracts for commercial storage space to meet the needs of the Navy as well as the Army. This agreement results in elimination of duplicate storage sites and provides maximum use of space with substantial but unestimated savings. Among the score or more of miscellaneous unifications listed, a few have substantial price tags on them. By agreement, the Quartermaster Corps provides base maintenance of Quartermaster-procured equipment operated by the Air Force. It is estimated that this agreement saves initial outlays of $500,000 for Air Force shop facilities and $1,000,000 which would be needed to buy Air Force shop tools and equipment. By agreement with the Air Force, the Army retains responsibility for providing technical advice and staff assistance on Quartermaster-type services for both departments. A complete estimate of savings is not available. Annual saving on one item alone is estimated at more than half a million dollars-the publication of manuals and films concerning Quartermaster-procured equipment and supplies. In the Fifth Army Area, Army laundries are processing 1,150,000 pieces a quarter for the Air Force at an annual saving estimated at $288,000. Many units of one service are providing clothing, equipment, and shoe-repair service for personnel of other departments. In some places one service provides bulk storage for the others. Representative specific projects by State or Territorial location follow: ALABAMA The Navy is handling oversea transshipment of fertilizer for the Army through Naval Magazine, Theodore, Ala. This arrangement was made primarily because of increasing port restrictions on ammonium nitrate. It is believed that handling costs to the Army have been reduced. Maintenance shops at Craig Air Force Base at Selma and Maxwell Air Force Base at Montgomery are taking care of the vehicles for five Reserve Officers Training Corps and Organized Reserve Corps installations. Maxwell Air Force Base is doing one type of maintenance on 25 vehicles operated by Recruiting Service. Counter-Intelligence Corps, and Area Engineer. ALASKA Use by the Navy of Army space charters to the Alaskan area from Seattle from September 1947 through February 1948 saved an estimated $33,000 for the Navy. ARIZONA Experienced Navy fighter pilots receive training in P-80 type aircraft at Air Force Pilot School, Williams Air Force Base at Chandler. ARKANSAS Combining of teletype circuits in the Fourth Army Area (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Louisiana) has resulted in an annual estimated saving to the Government of $35,043. CALIFORNIA The relocation o fthe Office of Inspector of Naval Material in Governmentowned space in San Francisco is saving $7,000 a year in rent. By agreement, the Navy handles the Army's oversea transshipment of ammunition through the facilities of the Naval Ammunition Depot, Bangor, Wash., and the Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, Calif. This arrangement permitted closing the Beaver Ammunition Storage point, Klatskanie, Oreg., at a saving of approximately $38,000 a month. Air Force storage space at Alameda is being shared with the Navy, permitting the protection of material that otherwise would have deteriorated in open storage. Savings are undetermined. The Army hospital at Fort Ord is furnishing hospitalization to Navy personnel and their dependents stationed at the Navy General Staff School, Monterey. It is assumed that this service relieves the Navy of the necessity of constructing and maintaining a 25-bed station hospital at an initial cost of $500,000, with an additional $15,030 cost for medical equipment and an operation cost of $375 a day. The Benecia Arsenal has discontinued ammunition handling and its other activities, which are being handled in part at Port Chicago and in part at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Mare Island. The saving has not been estimated. During the past fiscal year two teams of Air Force officers and men were trained at the Navy Target and Aircraft School at Santa Ana in maintenance and handling of target aircraft (nonpilot). These teams were provided with training they could not have obtained elsewhere. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and Coast and Geodetic Survey personnel have been extended the privilege on an allocation basis of using Army sales commissaries operated by the Army at the Army Medical Center, Fort Meyer, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington Quartermaster Depot, and Bolling Air Force Base, eliminating the need for duplicating these facilities and extending service to personnel of departments other than the Army. FLORIDA Maintenance Branch, Logistics Division, General Staff, has arranged with Air Force Headquarters for expansion of Quartermaster clothing and equipage shops at Eglin Air Force Base, Pensacola, and MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, to provide required maintenance of Quartermaster clothing and equipage for all civilian components in Florida. The Navy and Air Force have joined in operating a joint pilot-selection program at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. Housing at Naval Air Station, Fort Lauderdale, was used by USAF in connection with operations at Boca Raton. The Navy's Lejeune Trailer Camp, Miami, is currently in use for housing of Air Force personnel. Air Force enlisted men are attending the Navy Photographers Mates School at Pensacola. GEORGIA Fort Benning at Columbus is providing one type of maintenance for 101 general-purpose vehicles from Lawson Air Force Base at Columbus. HAWAII Through agreement, the Naval Amunition Depot, Oahu, T. H., handles Army oversea transshipment of ammunition. This permits handling ammunition at more satisfactory locations from the standpoint of safety. Joint consolidation of radio-link equipment at the Army Radio Station at Mauna Kapu, Oahu, is being undertaken. It is estimated the initial saving to the Navy will be $69,000 and the annual saving will be $3,000. The Army and Navy are engaged in a joint project at Oahu for improvement of communication control lines. It is expected an annual saving of $32,800 to the Navy will result. The Navy has assumed the responsibility for printing and other reproduction work for all three departments in Hawaii. This arrangement is resulting in a one-time saving of $19,000 and an annual saving of $50,000. A single Military Police Force has been established in Honolulu. The service has not been established long enough to estimate savings. The Army, Navy, and Air Force have worked out a plan for providing electric power at Hickam Field from a generating plant operated by the Navy in lieu of local purchase. The annual saving is estimated at $125,000. The Hawaiian Electric Co. filed a request with the Public Utilities Commission to increase electric power rates which would have increased costs to the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Through coordinated efforts, the services, with the aid of the Department of Justice, obtained a rate schedule lower than the one proposed by the company. The annual saving is estimated at $95,000. ILINOIS By agreement with the Air Force, the Quartermaster General provides schooling and technical training for Air Force officers and enlisted men at the Subsistence School in Chicago. Arrangements have been made for the Navy and Air Force to use the Army Quartermaster Food and Container Institute in Chicago for food research. This arrangement has permitted deletion of a $900,000 item from the Navy's budget request. Pooling their efforts, the Army, Navy, and Bureau of Federal Supply procurement offices have consummated a single service contract for electricity at Chicago which will save the Government an estimated $28,000 annually. INDIANA Fort Benjamin Harrison performs field maintenance on 194 vehicles assigned to Stout Field and Headquarters, Tenth Air Force, Indianapolis. KENTUCKY Fort Knox performs field maintenance on 60 vehicles assigned to Godman Air Force Base. Approximately 13 other Air Force vehicles are being maintained in various Second Army Area shops without reimbursement. The First Air Force has allotted funds to Second Army Headquarters for payment of subsistence allowance to Air ROTC students at institutions in Kentucky. LOUISIANA Maintenance of Government-owned teletypewriter equipment at New Orleans Port of Embarkation is performed by personnel of the Eighth Naval District, New Orleans. Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, handles issue and repair of enlisted men's clothing and equipment for three nearby ROTC units and for Alexandria Recruiting Station, Camp Polk caretaking detachments, and Organized Reserve Headquarters at Alexandria. It also issues all perishable subsistence supplies to Red River Arsenal, Texarkana, Tex. At the New Orleans Port of Embarkation, the Navy provides bulk laundry service for the Army, and the Army provides commissary service for the Navy. Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss., provides bundle laundry service for troops at Camp Leroy Johnson at New Orleans. The Army and the Navy use the Navy bakery jointly. The Navy has agreed to make 80 family units in the Bienville housing project in New Orleans available to Army personnel upon transfer of the project by the Housing and Home Finance Agency to the Navy Department. The Army will get the units on a reimbursable basis and will not need to duplicate this housing elsewhere. Combining of teletype circuits in the Fourth Army Area (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Louisiana) has resulted in an annual estimated saving to the Government of $35,043. Under agreement, certain oversea ammunition shipments are being handled for the Army by the Naval Ammunition Depot at New Orleans. No estimate of the saving is available. ΜΑΙΝΕ Army's Whittemore Maintenance Center, 270 miles away, is doing auto field maintenance for Dow Air Force Base at Bangor, which otherwise would have to be done at the Air Force Middletown Air Depot, 690 miles away. Dow Air Force Base furnishes one type of field auto maintenance for five nearby Army recruiting vehicles, saving transportation 270 miles to the Whittemore Maintenance Center at Ayer, Mass. Estimated saving is $1,500 a year. Presque Isle Air Force Base furnishes field maintenance to five nearby Army recruiting vehicles, saving 390 miles to Whittemore Maintenance Center, and eliminating visits by Army mobile teams. Estimated annual saving is $1,500. MARYLAND The Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, is providing facilities for eight multiengine Air Force planes because the Air Force does not have the required space at Andrews Air Force Base. Consolidation of a mess for 180 enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Air Force at Fort George G. Meade, Md., has resulted in a saving of $216 a day. The men were formerly paid $2.25 a day in lieu of rations; present ration allowance is $1.05. The First Air Force has allotted funds to Second Army Headquarters for payment of subsistence allowance to Air ROTC students at institutions in Maryland. MASSACHUSETTS The Army's Whittemore Maintenance Center, Ayer, furnishes one type of automotive maintenance service to the Presque Isle Air Force Base which saves transporting the work to Middletown Air Depot, 773 miles away. Space has been made available for the Army at the Naval Dry Docks, South Boston, with a saving estimated at $52,800 a year. Lower rate was obtained by purchasing electric power for the Boston Army Base and the Naval Dry Dock Base through one meter instead of separate meters as previously. Annual saving is estimated at $24,000. Army's Whittemore Maintenance Center, 28 miles away, is doing one type of auto field maintenance for the Air Force at Hanscom Airport, Bedford, which otherwise would have to be done at Middletown Air Depot, 370 miles away. The Navy has discontinued mine test work at Provincetown and is having the work carried on in facilities at Fort Storey, Virginia, and the Army mineplanter service at Fort Monroe. The annual saving is estimated at $11,000, in addition to the use of 18 fewer military personnel. MISSISSIPPI Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, provides bundle laundry service for troops at Camp Leroy Johnson, New Orleans. MISSOURI A joint Army-Navy medical equipment repair course, using a joint teaching staff, was established in St. Louis in November 1946 for officers and enlisted personnel. The Army's Records Administration Center and the Army Finance Center at St. Louis handle the storage of civilian personnel and pay-roll records on separated employees for the Air Force. No estimate has been made of the saving to the Air Force. The Navy, Army, and Reconstruction Finance Corp. cooperated in terminating wartime contracts with the Kansas City Power and Light Company for service to the Army's Sunflower Ordnance Plant and Navy's Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Plant, obtaining a $65,000 refund for the Government. NEW JERSEY The proximity of the Naval Ammunition Depot at Lake Denmark and the Picatinny Arsenal at Dover has permitted many interstation economics, such as joint use of medical facilities, transportation, and utilities. Savings as a whole have not been estimated, but elimination of a separate Navy telephone switchboard alone is saving $12,000 annually. Army's Miller Field, 20 miles away, is doing one type of auto maintenance for the Air Force's shops at the Newark Municipal Airport, which otherwise would have to be sent to Middletown Air Depot, 180 miles away. McGuire Air Force Base at Fort Dix is supplied with subsistence by the Army at an estimated saving of $2,000 a month and is afforded individual commissary privileges. By agreement, the Navy is outloading Army ammunition produced at Raritan Arsenal from the Navy Ammunition Depot at Earle. The annual saving is between $40,000 and $50,000. Safety is increased by handling the explosives through Earle rather than through the New York area, as was done formerly. The Army and Navy put into operation a plan for Army utilization of Navyowned-and-operated cold storage plants at Cheatam Annex, Williamsburg, Va., |