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NOTES 104 reserve transport needs and the role of the civil transport fleet. These issues are not fully resolved. Obviously, the resolution of the reserve fleet issue can affect large aircraft procurement considerations and is of special interest to the manufacturing and air transportation industries. The panel recognizes the difficulties of achieving more stable procurement of military aircraft. Nevertheless, the production base plays a vital role in surge capacity. Stability of operations contributes to maintaining the readiness of that production base and indirectly strengthening the competitive capability of civil activity. Consequently, renewed efforts are needed to reduce the wide swings in military procurement (in the absence of any emergency) that affect the base so adversely. The panel recommends that DOD and industry seek to strengthen coordinated planning for aircraft procurement to reduce as far as practicable the great cyclicality in production that disrupts the industry. NOTES 1. Alan I. Rapoport, and Carol Erlebach, Collaborative Projects Between the United States and Foreign Aeronautics Industries, Division of Policy Research and Analyses, National Science Foundation, October 1982. 2. (a) G.R. Hall, and R.E. Johnson, ''Transfers of United States Aerospace Technology to Japan," The Technology Factor in International Trade, a Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research, National Bureau of Economic Research, Columbia University Press, New York, 1970. (b) U.S. General Accounting Office, U.S. Military Coproduction Programs Assist Japan in Developing Its Civil Aircraft Industry, A report by the Comptroller General to the Subcommittee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, March 18, 1982. (c) U.S. House of Representatives, Trade with Japan, hearings before the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, 96th Congress, Second Session, Washington, D.C., 1980. (d) United States Trade Council, Japan's Aircraft Industry, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1980. 3. Great Britain secured a position on a U.S. fighter with the Martin-Baker ejection seat in an open competition. Subsequently, as a result of pressure from U.S. industry, Congress mandated use of a U.S. product instead. The action caused great resentment in Great Britain. 4. Aviation Week and Space Technology, September 26, 1983, p. 26.
