Miscellany

The President's proposal for reorganizing the Department of Defense, made public on April 30th, calls for the abolition of the Department's Research and Development Board and for the transfer of its functions to the Secretary of Defense. Terming the organizational arrangement of the RDB “too slow and too clumsy’ to serve as an effective management tool for the Secretary, President Eisenhower indicated that its functions would ultimately be assigned to one of several new Assistant Secretaries of Defense to be appointed to the Department. “The abolition of the present statutory staff agencies,’ the President said, “and the provision of the new Assistant Secretaries to aid the Secretary of Defense will be the key to the attainment of increased effectiveness at low cost in the Department of Defense.”