Review of the Merger of Navy Sea Systems Command Automatic Data Support Centers

Since 1976, the Department of the Navy has been considering moving the Computer Application Support and Development Office, located at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire, and merging it with the Central Naval Ordnance Management Information Systems Office, located at Indian Head, Maryland. A 1977 Navy report showed that consolidation of these activities could eliminate 37 positions at an estimated annual savings of $905,600. The Navy then studied the alternatives of locating the consolidated activity at either Portsmouth or Indian Head to determine which of the two sites would result in the least cost.