Organizational development and the problems of requirements, facilities allocation and conversion, strategic, critical, and essential materials, and the industrial mobilization plans of 1930, 1933, 1936, and 1939 are covered. Appendixes consist of miscellaneous correspondence, directives, and circulars, as well as copies of the industrial mobilization plans of 1936 and 1939.

"This study of procurement planning in the War Department from 1920-1940 was prepared in the General Reports Section, Control Division, Headquarters, ASF. The original research was done by Mr. Jack Borchers and was extensively revised in February, 1943 by Colonel John D. Millett. The data was obtained from the files of the Production Division, Headquarters, ASF, the files of the Statistics Branch, Control Division, ASF, and from the library of the Industrial College." - Foreword.