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The Office of Production Management was a United States government agency that existed from January 1941 and was led by the Danish William Knudsen.The agency was established to centralize direction of the federal procurement programs and quasi-war production during the period immediately proceeding the United States' involvement in World War II.
The Supply Priorities and Allocations Board (SPAB) was a United States administrative entity within the Office for Emergency Management which was created and dissolved during the World War II. The board was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941, and dissolved less than five months later. [ 1 ]
Office of Production Management, United States government agency that existed before the U.S. entry into World War II; United States Office of Personnel Management, the manager of the federal civil service in the United States Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management, the state equivalent of the federal agency
Knudsen was appointed as Chairman of the Office of Production Management and member of the National Defense Advisory Commission for which he received a salary of $1 per year. [ 14 ] In January 1942, Knudsen received a commission as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, the only civilian ever to join the army at such a high initial rank, [ 15 ...
He was named chief of shipbuilding, construction and supplies in the Production Division of the newly created Office of Production Management in January 1941, and later that year he became the OPM's director of construction. [2] [3] In July 1942 Harrison was commissioned a colonel in the U.S. Army, and he was soon promoted to brigadier general.
The committee had begun in August 1941 to assess Roosevelt's ungainly Office of Production Management (OPM), and by January 1942, the conclusion was ready for publication. The report severely criticized the OPM: "Its mistakes of commission have been legion; and its mistakes of omission have been even greater."
The United States Civil Service Commission was created by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. The commission was renamed as the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and most of commission's former functions—with the exception of the federal employees appellate function—were assigned to new agencies, with most being assigned to the newly created U.S. Office of Personnel ...
Donald M. Nelson in 1947. Donald Marr Nelson (1888–1959) was an American business executive and public servant, serving as the executive vice president of Sears Roebuck before accepting the position of director of priorities of the United States Office of Production Management (1941–1942).