Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Missile costs exceed estimates by 4 billion by Bernard Nossiter in the three years and nine months i have worked in the he said i have never heard a program Mana Ger propose Cost reduction As a solution to a funding problem practically speaking it is not a Washington special tons the Pentagon s top procurement official wednesday acknowledged that costs of the minuteman ii missile have ballooned nearly billion above the original estimate. Barry Shillito assistant Secre tary of defence for purchasing told a joint economic subcommittee that this is pretty much the numbers passed on by the air Force there was that kind of the first knowledge Congress received of the latest overrun affair came on tuesday. Then c. Merton Tyrrell a former air Force consultant revealed that costs for the missile have risen from s3.3 billion to billion. Another Pentagon witness a. Ernest Fitzgerald of the ail Force said that the billion figure could be too Low. He testified that the military arbitrarily distinguished tween the three versions of the missile and the amount of overrun on ii depends on How you describe he did say that costs for minuteman ii and Iii Are now figured at billion. At the same time the sub committee chairman sen. Wil Liam Proxmire Democrat Wisconsin came up with what appears to be the current record for Cost growth. He charged that the Price of the Navy s deep submersible Rescue vehicle has jumped from million each in 1964 to million currently an ascension of almost 2700 per cent. Sen. Proxmire asked or. Shillito Why the Navy wants the device anyway. It is supposed to Rescue sailors trapped in a submarine and according to sen. Proxmire the Navy has experienced Only one peacetime submarine disaster since 1928 in which a a sri could help. Or. Shillito who has spent most of his working life shuttling Between the defence department and the aerospace Industry said he knew nothing about it but would look into it. Sen. Proxmire said that the program originally called for twelve ships at million and is now reduced to six vessels at a Cost of million. The builder is Lockheed aircraft corp., the maker of the controversial c-5a. Or. Fitzgerald a Deputy to the air Force assistant Secretary for financial management is the Man who first disclosed that the big transport is running about billion above the estimates Given Congress. He still has his Job but he has been separated from major programs and put to work examining Cost overruns on a Bowling Alley in Thailand and similar marginal matters. Wednesday he gave the first hint that the big plane May not be As Good As the Pentagon claims. The military has been testifying that whatever it costs the transport is performing 101 per cent of its required stand Ards. He told sen. Proxmire be had heard there has been some relaxation of the original stand Ards and said he hoped to Man Waits two Days for Rescue return on Friday with documentation. Lockheed s big plane was the subject of accounting report Given to the House armed services committee. The report largely echoed the air Force analysis and rationale for the big costs increases. It did say however the service could reasonably have predicted As Early As december 1967 that Winnipeg free press. Friday june 13. 1969 recreation plea by candidate the provincial government said children Are much More should provide recreation facile important than cars. Why lies for children and demand that apartment Block owners do some recognized alternative. With rare exceptions this has been i True the Cost of the items in. The program has escalated wildly and avoidable inefficiencies were Well Docu describing himself As a parsimonious or. Fitzger Ald said that the biggest defence contractors typically employ 40 per cent More overhead people the same says the Liberal candidate for fort Rouge mrs. Jane Heffelfinger. In a press release issued thursday mrs. Heffelfinger Are the Concrete Jungles apartment blocks m our Riding rising with parking lots instead of finance Centre new York this City replaced Philadelphia As the nation s financial Centre in the then i period from 1830 to 1940. Of Church revenues new York about 53 cents of every philanthropic Dollar goes to Church groups. Overruns were coming. Some than they need use 60 per cent congressmen Are upset because More Blue Collar workers and at 50 per cent More Engi there months later the air Force was testifying that the program s costs were in hand. Before the Proxmire sub committee or. Fitzgerald tried to isolate the causes of the runaway costs that Congress is finding in almost every big program it is examining. When costs on a program Rise above estimates or. 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