to avoid cost growth) to save dollars in the long run, even though he will undoubtedly be somewhere else by then. One need not be imaginative to guess which direction the program manager is inclined to go-control today's costs! A second step is to continue and improve the training of ILS personnel. The Air Force's Logistics and Systems Commands currently have a program which allows officers in one command to gain experience in the other and then return to their parent command. As a result of this cross-fertilization, the future program manager gains logistics experience and the future deputy program manager gains experience in the total program management area. Eventually, some of the harmful command parochialism should disappear and ILS should become more of a team effort. "ILS is necessary for the development of an effective and economical support system." A third step is to make the ILS career field an attractive one. If ILS is to compete with more glamourous career fields for quality, then opportunities for promotion, education, and job advancement must be fostered by the highest management levels. There has been much progress in this area, and the old fear of "being stuck in logistics" no longer is prevalent. Finally, the obstacles to ILS can be eliminated through a genuine effort on the part of all concerned to make ILS work! This includes the program manager, the air staff, the developing and supporting commands, and the Congress. The program manager must have the courage to make the hard decisions, and higher management must encourage and support the program manager in such decisions. The commands must make ILS a true objective, not at the expense of other requirements, but as an equally important and vital requirement. Congress must understand and encourage the ILS effort and should consider alternate funding approaches for system development and acquisition (such as multiyear funding). Integrated Logistics Support has come a long way over the past 13 years. It is a concept that is here to stay. The task for all involved is to make that stay a productive one. DMJ MAJOR NED H. CRISCIMAGNA, USAF, is a Reliability and Maintainability Staff Officer assigned to the Logistics Engineering and Support Division, Directorate of Maintenance, Engineering & Supply, under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Systems and Logistics. He was previously assigned to the Directorate of Aerospace Logistics, part of the Air Force Acquisition Logistics Division. Major Criscimagna has a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska and a Master's degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of the Air Force Command and Staff College, and has completed the National Security Management Course conducted by the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Who's New in DoD Their decisions will have significant impact on Department of Defense planning and policies. For the most part, however, their names and faces are relatively little known to persons in DoD. In this issue, the Journal offers brief introductions to newly appointed managers in the Military Departments. Robert L. Nelson is the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). When nominated, he was president of the Broadcasting Division of Washington Star Communications, Incorporated, which he had joined in 1974 as the newspaper's senior vice president (treasurer and counsel). He was employed by various government organizations from 1958 to 1966, serving consecutively with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. AID Mission to Brazil. Subsequently, before joining Washington Star Communica tions, he served in legal and management capacities in private industry. Mr. Nelson, 46, received a B.A. degree from Bates College, Maine, and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia. David E. Mann is the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development). From 1951 to 1965, Dr. Mann held positions with the National Bureau of Standards, first as physicist and later as chief of molecular spectroscopy. In 1957, he was awarded both Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships for study abroad. He joined the Advanced Research Products Agency in 1966, and in 1967 he was appointed deputy director of that agency's Ballistic Missile Defense Office. In 1968 he became director of where he initiated development the Strategic Technology Office, programs in high-energy lasers, long-range infrared and radar sensors, and undersea and ASW sensor technology. Dr. Mann became special assistant for Navy advanced system projects to the Chief of Naval Operations in 1973. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. Alan J. Gibbs, the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Logistics and Financial Management), had been deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Human Services since 1974. He began his career in public service in 1963, when he entered the management intern program with the National Labor Relations Board as a labor-management relations examiner in Baltimore. In 1966, Mr. Gibbs joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, DC. In 1968, he was appointed area nessee. director for Alabama and Ten Mr. Gibbs, 39, was assistant health services administrator in the New York City Health Services Administration from 1970 to 1972, when he became first deputy commissioner of health. He holds a B.S. degree in management and an M.S. degree in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois. Antonia Handler Chayes is the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations). At the time of her nomination, she was a partner in the Boston law firm of Csaplar and Bok. Her professional experience includes the deanship of Jackson College, Tufts University. She was a lecturer in law at Yale and Boston University law schools. Ms. Chayes served as Director of Education and Urban Development for Action for Boston Com munity Development, and as liaison for the Boston Model Cities Administration. She was also a member of the planning staff of the National Institute of Mental Health. She was a member of the White House staff in 1961 and 1962. Ms. Chayes, 48, received an A.B. degree in government from Radcliffe College and a J.D. degree from George Washington University. Edward Hidalgo is the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics). Mr. Hidalgo was a legal advisor with the State Department from 1942 to 1943. He was a member of the United States Delegation to the InterAmerican Conference in Bogota, Columbia, in 1948. From 1965 to 1966, he was special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, and from 1966 to 1972, he directed the Euro pean office of the law firm of Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel. In 1972, Mr. Hidalgo served as special assistant for economic affairs to the director of the United States Information Agency, and in 1973 he became general counsel of the agency. He holds a B.A. degree from Holy Cross College, a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School, and a degree in civil law from the University of Mexico. Percy A. Pierre, the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Development), was dean of the School of Engineering, Howard University, at the time of his appointment. From 1968 to 1971, he was a research engineer with the Rand Corporation. Dr. Pierre, 38, was a White House Fellow from 1969 to 1970. From 1973 to 1975, he divided his time between Howard University and the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Engineering Colleges Council; American Society for Engineering Education; and the Advisory Panel for the Institute of Applied Technology, National Bureau of Standards. He served as consultant to the Center for Naval Analyses. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. degree in electric engineering from Johns Hopkins University. New Course Teaches OR/SA Skills A 12-week course on the fundamentals of operations research/systems analysis is being offered by the Army Logistics Management Center, Fort Lee, Virginia. The course is for Army officers who have the OR/SA specialty but do not have a graduate degree in either OR/SA engineering or OR/SA business. The course is designed to give Army officers an understanding of OR/SA theory and methodologies. It will provide the student with the knowledge and skills required in the military environment to perform and critically evaluate OR/SA stud ies, interpret them for decision The next class of the OR/SA Military Applications Course ALMC also is offering a series For further information, write the Chairman, Systems and Cost Analysis Department, School of Logistics Science, ALMC, Fort Lee, VA 23801. Phone: (804) 734-1231. Upon signal, CAMS, by controlled laser burning, prints the destination address directly on the shipping container surface. The new procedure eliminates several human steps and accomplishes the work 20 times faster than old hand-marking methods. Estimated costs for a new CAMS system are about $95,000. Anticipated annual savings will be $39,761 on the basis of 650, 000 packages marked. DMJ Rated The Defense Management Journal recently received a Blue Pencil Award for editorial excellence from the National Association of Government Communicators. The award was bestowed in competition with other government publications whose professional staffs are comparable in size to that of the Journal. The NAGC is the professional organization for information and editorial people at all all levels of government-federal, state, and local. ASPR Discussed Proposed Bill Modifies Procurement Regulations A recently introduced Senate bill, “Federal Acquisition Act of 1977" (S 1264), would have farreaching effects on defense procurement. The bill contains rec ommendations for eliminating the separate DoD procurement regulations (ASPR), requiring functional specifications and life cycle costing for procurements in addition to major systems, giving final authority to the General Accounting Office in bid protests, restricting the use of competition and sealed bids, expanding the requirements for cost data for sole-source procurements, and introducing a requirement for price data for all large purchases. Executive Reorganization Personnel Programs Under Review President Carter has established the "Federal Personnel Management Project" as part of his plan to reorganize the Executive Branch. Under the direction of Alan Campbell, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, and Wayne Grandquist of the Office of Management and Budget, the project will establish eight special task forces to study and recommend changes in the government's civil service and personnel systems. The entire spectrum of personnel programs is planned for review. Job Guide Study New Handbooks Simplify Maintenance The Advanced Systems Divi- one place and ensuring that it sion of the Air Force Human is written in clear and easily Resources Laboratory recently understandable terms. completed study of a new series of aircraft maintenance instruction guides designed to simplify maintenance troubleshooting while reducing training time for aircraft maintenance specialists. It has generally been accepted that technical orders are hard to use during aircraft maintenance operations and that technicians often have difficulty finding the specific information they require. The new guides are small, four- by eight-inch handbooks of sequential instructions for maintenance and troubleshooting, convenient for use on the flightline or in the maintenance area. Emphasis is placed on providing all the information that the technician requires to do the job in $25,000 Incentive Award Advantages of the job guides include their small size, their readability, and their understandability. The study showed that the maintenance technicians found the illustrations keyed to specific procedures useful. The inclusion of job preparation information was seen as a method of reducing the time required for some tasks and of contributing to maintenance safety. One disadvantage found during the study was that for some maintenance tasks, technicians had to use too many volumes. Sometimes, too, they had difficulty locating specific information quickly. The study findings will be used in the preparation of future guides. President Honors Federal Employee President Carter recently presented a $25,000 incentive award to Lawrence L. Guzick, head engineer in the Aircraft Carrier Ship Logistics division of the Naval Sea Systems Command. Mr. Guzick won the award for his invention of an orifice and filter assembly which replaces the conventional steam trap used on naval ships since early in the development of steam-powered equipment. The device, which has been approved for fleet-wide installation, improves the reliability and availability of steam machinery systems, reduces steam leakage, and improves turbine and thermal efficiency of the entire power system of steam-powered ships. The Navy anticipates annual fuel and maintenance cost savings of over $10 million from Mr. Guzick's invention. The $25,000 award-the maximum that can be granted-was conferred on only five previous occasions since the Federal Incentive Awards program was established in 1954, and never before by a President. |