An analysis of the complex tasks associated with Army procurement and economic mobilization featuring the War Department's business relationships from prewar planning and the determination of military requirements to the settlement and liquidation of the wartime procurement effort.

The task and the achievement -- Prewar plans and wartime organization -- Background of interwar planning -- War Department procurement planning -- Industrial mobilization planning -- Organization for war -- Determination of Army requirements -- Army requirement programs: World War I to Pearl Harbor -- Army requirement programs: Pearl Harbor to war's end -- The methodology of Army requirements determination -- Army purchasing problems and policies -- Survey of Army purchasing: 1940 to 1945 -- Major issues in contract placement -- General policies in contract placement and clearance -- The cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract -- Pricing in fixed-price contracts -- Multiple-contract pricing review: the company pricing program -- Contract renegotiation: origins and basic procedures -- Renegotiation: principles and policy -- The Army and OPA Price Control -- The Army and small business -- Expansion of facilities for the Army -- General aspects of facilities expansion -- Private industrial expansion under tax amortization -- Government financed and owned industrial facilities -- Production and material controls -- Establishment of the Priorities System -- Priorities: problems in application and operation -- Material controls in transition -- The controlled materials plan -- Other measures for control and conservation of materials -- Contract termination and settlement -- Contract termination: background and preparations -- Termination and settlement procedure -- Contract settlement in operation -- Epilogue -- The summing up.