1995 Army Team Lead Desk Material - Adds to List Hearing, May 21, 1993 Page: 73 of 222
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69projected needs in that category. Because of
realigroents and reductions in workload in
those categories, the ordinance stations were
Looked at based on, I think, '89 or '90, where
they had drastically reduced their
workforces.
And so the workforce level
which is, I think, approximately 1,200 people
at Louisville, is fairly well balanced with
the workload provided to them. But the basic
issue we have here is the issue of the
diversion of public sector depot work to the
private sector as a way to maintain the
defense industrial base. And we don't realty
have any current -- and I don't want to get
too in advance of your depot discussions Later
on, which I think wilL deal with this, but we
don't have currently any formal DOD policy
guidance on this.
But I did want to read a
couple of sentences out of the Oefense
Conversion Commission report that was issued
the end of 1992, which is a DOD group chaired
by Dave Berteau. And I wanted to read two
sentences that they state in there, which I
think follows the philosophy that fits this
proposal: "Increasing the maintenance
workload in the private sector would benefit
the industrial base more than maintaining the
current balance between pubLic and private
facilities would.
"Allocating more maintenance
to private sector facilities could provide
additional work to companies that can provide
000 with design and prodction capabilities
and services beyond those of public
maintenance facilities."
COWI SSIONER MCPHERSON: am
sorry. What is that?
MR. YELLIN: What I'm reading?
COMMISSIONER MCPHERSON: Yes.
MR. YELLIN: This is the
report of the Defense Conversion Commission.
This is a COD commission that during 1992
studied the effect of the defense drawtn on
the defense industrial base. The commission
was chaired by Dave Serteau from OS, and this
is a very broad-ranging, broad-based study,
but one of the things they did took at was,
what do you do to try to maintain elements of
the defense industrial base that are important
to the Defense Department on an ongoing basis.
And, although they certainly
didn't talk to in this report the specific
category of facilities that we're talking
about here, I just wanted to bring that up as
a general statement that I think --
COMI I!SS IONER MCPHERSON: Is
that Pentagon policy, what you have just been
reading?
MR. YELLIN: No. As far as I
know, it is not.
CCMMKISSKONER MCPHERSON: Would
Pentagon policy be consistent with what was in
the WaLll Street Journal yesterday? A
quotation from General Ronald Yates, who heads
the Air Force Materiel Commnd, and who is
reported to have told a group of industry
people at Fredericksburg, Virginia, last: fall,"We are radicaLly changing ways we do business
in the United States Air Force. I don't
intend to close any depots. I intend to take
work away from you to keep my depots open. So
I am a Tyraro:aurus. I f you're sitting there
eating my cabbage, I intend to take your
cabbage away from you.
MR. YELLIN: That must have
been a very interesting Lunch speech. I have
heard that quote before, and I think my
impression is that it is an accurate
statement, that he did say that.
MR. JACKSON: Relatively
recently, it was called to my attention a .
brochure that was put out by one of the depots
-- right now, I cannot remair which one it
was. I believe it was an Army depot. A very
stick brochure, basically, calling on the
private sector to form joint partnerships with
them to go out and look for business.
COMMISSIONER STUART: But, to
get at this issue that you've raised, Alex,
and Commissioner McPherson mentioned, isn't
this our opportunity to take a look at it by
considering Lorisville for the closure List?
Because the whole issue is,
these private firms, commercial firms with
expertise in this area are not going to be
able to continue to do this work unless they
get a shot at it. And we need to took at the
alternatives of giving them the opportunity,
because I fur damentally, fully disagree with
General Yates on that point of closing out
industry. We'll need them in the future,
because they have the R&D capability.
COMMISSIONER BOMAN: I agree
with Commissioner Stuart. This one's actually
even closer, because it's a government-ouned
facility. Well, not Louisville, but the
organization proposing that we look at
Louisville is 9gverrment-ow ed and contractor-
operated, so I think it's slightly different,
but even more imperative that we meybe should
take a look at this.
CHAIRMAN COURTER: Alex, let
me ask you this question. In the Joint Chiefs
of Staff's study on depot maintenance work --
and we're familiar with that study -- it was
formdl General Joe Went who was one of the
commissioners on that important study. And
they were talking about anywhere between --
they were talking about depot maintenarnce work
-- 25 and 50 percent over capacity in the
public sector.
And they went on in saying
that is so, and we did not count private
capacity. We didn't Look at it; we didn't
have the time or anything else. We also, by
way of footnote here, reer Secretary
Aspin's coments with regard to that same
issue, and they were interesting, certainly.
No clear policy guidance, bt he is the former
Secretary, the existing Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, have consistently said we
have to look at cross servicing and to a
degree, as we l, talked about private
capbilti ties.
The cpuestion i have is a very
narrow one. In the Wlent study that was
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