An analysis of the complex tasks associated with Army procurement and economic mobilization featuring the War Department₂s 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.