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Helnl Radio News Service
8/14/46
DRASTIC SHAKEUP IN WAR ASSETS ELECTRONICS DIVISION
Drastic changes to speed the disposal of surplus electronics equipment, especially radio receivers and transmitters, as well as testing equipment, were ordered last week-end by Robert M. Littlejohn, new War Assets Administrator who has promised to cut red tape down to a minimum in getting surplus materials into the hands of veterans.
The new WAA program as set up by Maj. General Littlejohn (who insists on being designated as "Mr. ") also calls for the estab¬ lishment of a special priorities office to process applications from veterans.
Immediate revision in the agency* s program calls for: (1) Complete reorganization of the Electronics Division which sells the surplus radio and radar equipment; (2) Adoption of short-cuts in the handling of inventories; (3) Readjustment of sales agents* agreements; and (4) Revocation of agreements not compatible with the public int¬ erest.
Administrator Littlejohn has announced that the Electronics Division is now under the Office of Aircraft Disposal, headed by Deputy Administrator James A. Mollison and that the disposal proced¬ ures for aeronautical property, which has been widely approved, will be applied to electronics.
Following the resignation of Robert McCurdy, who headed the Electronics Division, George H. Moriarity, formerly in charge of air¬ craft components sales, has been made Director of Electronics Sales. Numerous other personnel changes have been made in Washington and the field, it was announced.
As planned by the WaA, the veterans' priorities office will seek to obtain quick action on applications from 10,000 veterans, most of whom are seeking scarce radio testing equipment with which they hone to start or continue a radio repair business. (The issue of radio testing apparatus scarcity in WAA inventories was a focal point in the recent attacks in Congress on surplus property disposal by Senator Wylie and now being given attention by Representative Slaughter* s House Surplus Disposal Committee).
Other features of the WAA program include elimination of cost-plus-fixed-fee provisions of present agent contracts; emphasize "sales for profits" rather than storage for profits; and particular¬ ly aims at closer coordination of the agency with industry.
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