[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5, Parts 700 to 799]
[Revised as of  July 1, 1998]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR700.406]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 700--UNITED STATES NAVY REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart D--The Commandant of the Marine Corps
 
Sec. 700.406  Relationships between the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Chief of Naval Material.

    Formal operating relationships with respect to the efforts of 
determining needs and providing support between the Commandant of the 
Marine Corps and his organization and the Chief of Naval Material and 
his organization shall be governed by the following principles:
    (a) The Commandant of the Marine Corps shall express to the Chief of 
Naval Material those Marine Corps material needs which are to be 
provided by the Naval Material Command. With respect to the development 
of material items, the Commandant of the Marine

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Corps shall specify the military performance required to meet Marine 
Corps needs.
    (b) The Chief of Naval Material shall advise the Commandant of the 
Marine Corps as to the economic and technological feasibility of meeting 
such needs, and shall keep the Commandant informed of new capabilities 
to meet the needs of the Marine Corps which may or may not have been 
previously expressed. With respect to the development of material items, 
the Chief of Naval Material shall determine the technical effort 
necessary to satisfy the needs of the Marine Corps.
    (c) The Commandant of the Marine Corps shall select the work to be 
done to satisfy the needs of the Marine Corps, based upon feasibility 
data and current estimates of the worth of a particular need in relation 
to other desirable needs, including, where necessary, the curtailment or 
cancellation of work already in progress in favor of work which offers 
greater promise or greater military worth.
    (d) The Chief of Naval Material shall exercise appropriate 
supervision over accomplishment of the work selected, and shall insure 
that resources available to him are efficiently utilized in meeting 
Marine Corps needs.
    (e) Work being accomplished shall be reviewed concurrently by the 
Commandant of the Marine Corps from the viewpoint of readiness and 
military worth, and by the Chief of Naval Material from the viewpoint of 
progress and the efficient utilization of resources available to him.