Army Supply Program

The mission originally assigned to the Ordnance Department was to design, develop, procure, store, maintain, and supply to the Army such equipment and supplies as are assigned to the Ordnance Department for procurement, in such quantities and at such times as are required to meet the requirements of Army supply programs and other directives of higher authority. 

The Chief, CWS, felt that chemical mortar battalions would provide the most effective means for large-scale retaliation on the ground and that such battalions should be activated on the general basis of one per division. Although the Army Supply Program had provided for a total of 28 battalions by 1944, by May 1942 only 4 chemical battalions and 3 separate chemical mortar companies—one each in Panama, Hawaii, and the United... 

Several problems yet remained, such as formal confirmation of combat functions for the CWS, clarification of training responsibilities for CWS units, the adjustment of the Army Supply Program to handle prospective United Nations requirements, and clarification of Air Force requirements together with improvement in co-ordination of the manufacture of chemical... 

The strength of the CWS at the end of April 1942 was 1,832 officers and 12,068 enlisted men. Four chemical mortar battalions were in training and by the end of June two more were to be mobilized. The air and ground chemical troop basis as of 25 May 1942 called for 4,970 officers and 47,192 enlisted men. It contemplated the mobilization of 105 ground service units and 103 air chemical units. The Army Supply Program called for the activation of twenty-two more chemical mortar battalions in 1943 and 1944. The sharp increases necessitated an immediate step-up of training activities. 

Under the new plan the Industrial Division, OC CWS, assumed the role of a staff rather than an operating agency. It prepared procurement schedules of end items for the installations, based on the Army Supply Program, In preparing these schedules the division consulted frequently with installation officials. Three weeks after the schedules were drawn up, a meeting of representatives of the chiefs office, the arsenals, and the districts was held in Washington for the purpose of arranging the manufacture and delivery of components which the installations could not procure within their own confines. 

Memo, Brig Gen A. H. Waitt for Maj Gen Porter, 24 Feb 44, sub Record Keeping and Use of Figures in Control of Operations—Responsibilities of Field Operations Command. (2) Memo, Brig Gen A. H. Waitt for Maj Gen Porter, sub Army Supply Program. This memo was written to supplement the 24 Feb 44 memo. Both in CWS 314.7 Requirements File. 

WD SOS Army Supply Program, Monthly Status Report CWS Equipment Section, No. 4, May 1942. 

The CWS estimated requirements for the shell on the basis of a continually growing theater demand and, of course, passed on the requirements to Headquarters, ASF, to be incorporated into the Army Supply Program. On 1 October 1944 the ASF reduced the Army Supply Program figure for 4.2-inch shells from 5,645,306 to 4,007,000 without stating the reasons. After the CWS protested this action. Headquarters, ASF, reversed its decision and on 13 November approved the original figure of 5,645,306. The CWS had meanwhile been retarded over a six-week period in efforts to secure steel for its 1S>45 production, a procedure that required considerable... 

ICAF lecture, Lt Gen LeRoy Lutes, The Army Supply Program, 5 Feb 46, ICAF L 46-23, p. 7. In ICAF Library. 

A chief objective of the CWS procurement and supply program was to maintain at optimum level those items of the Army supply list for... 

Another objective of the procurement and supply program in the CWS was to fill the peacetime requirements of the Regular Army, the National Guard, the Organized Reserves, and, upon request, the Navy. The gas mask was the principal item of issue, although some munitions such as grenades and nontoxic drop bombs were manufactured and issued chiefly for training purposes. ... 

Our initial expectations were that we would interview far more FDA officials than we did. However, we ended up interviewing more DoD officials, at all levels of policy and operations. Officials were interviewed in the following DoD offices Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) J-4 Eogistics Directorate Office of the ASD(HA) JPO-BD the Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs U.S. Army Soldier Biological and Chemical Command U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity and U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases... 

Received April 1, 1953. Report on one phase of a program of research on the flameproofing of cotton textiles being supported at the Southern Regional Research Laboratory by funds supplied by the Office of the Quartermaster General, Department of the Army, and conducted under the general supervision of the Research and Development Laboratories, Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot, Philadelphia, Pa. 

General Atomics is currently contracted to supply a SCWO system to the Tooele Army Depot in Tooele, Utah. The plant will process hydrolyzed conventional explosive devices using General Atomics design. The program is currently in the design stage, with the expected completion date for the plant projected for 2007. 

In June 1950, with the onset of the Korean War, the Chemical Corps participated in its first military action. The corps quickly implemented an increased procurement program to supply the army with a retaliatory chemical capability and defensive equipment. Major General Anthony C. McAuliffe, the new Chief of the Chemical Corps, concluded that this ability was the number one lesson learned from World War II ... 

Critical Experiments on Enriched Uranium Stainless Steel Water Moderated Lattices, L. M. Welshans and K, M. Johnson (MARTIN). A series of 12 cold, clean critical cores has been studied under the Army Nuclear Power Program in conjunction with the Pressurized Water Reactor Code Development task. The purpose of the experimental program Is to Supply data on highly enriched uranium, water moderated systems using stainless steel as cladding material. 

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