BUDGETING AND MANAGEMENT REFORM Air Force Pricing: Conceived of and initiated a General Accounting Office (GAO) effort in the Senate Committee and conference report accompanying the FY 1992 Department of Defense Appropriation Act to identify annual savings in the purchase of spare parts, repairable items and consumables by the Air Force. These savings are the result of downward changes in pricing estimates from the time a budget is assembled to the time when funds for an item are obligated. The effort resulted in GAO recommendations for improved management of financial accounting and inventory control across the DoD. SOF Budget Justification: Conceived of and authored language in the conference report accompanying the FY 1993 Department of Defense Appropriation Act instructing USSOCOM on the manner in which it must improve its annual budget justification documents and supporting material and successfully recommended a directive that $20 million be withheld until such changes are made. Printing Savings: Authored Senate report language accompanying the FY 1991 and FY 1992 Defense Appropriation Acts directing that the Air Force consolidate its service-wide printing and reproduction activities and look to outside competitive contracting to achieve greater savings. Environmental Laboratory Consolidation: Conceived of and authored Committee report language accompanying the FY 1993 Department of Defense Appropriation Act initiating a DoD-wide program of environmental laboratory consolidation to achieve greater efficiencies and cost savings of $15 million in FY 1993. Management Reform of DoD Environmental Office: Conceived of and authored Senate report language accompanying the FY 1993 DoD Appropriation Act that streamlined the administration, improved cost accounting and enhanced congressional oversight of the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment). The language directed the DASD(E) to provide better budget visibility on personnel costs and to eliminate mission duplication within DoD. It successfully recommended that OSD elevate the DASD(E) position to reflect its growing importance to the DoD mission. SOCOM Program Management: Co-authored language in the FY 1992 DoD conference report directing that program management responsibility for the Mark V and ASDS programs shall be the responsibility of USSOCOM and that the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) be responsible for executing these projects at SOCOM's direction. Headquarters funding for NAVSEA and SOCOM withheld from obligation pending satisfactory progress reports.