$(20$ pts$)$ A young engineer, on active duty in the military, tries to eliminate a base that is purchased with every gyroscope. The base allows for a quick disconnect. Though the gyroscope was used in three different aircraft, the base was only used in one of the three. That one aircraft was no longer in production, so bases were no longer needed. The other two airframe manufacturers just stored them. They could neither dispose of them nor return them to the government. The "system" would not allow the engineer to delete the base from the specification. He then submitted a "suggestion" through the formal suggestion system. The engineer receives a call from a staff member in the office that handles suggestions. Military suggesters could not receive monetary awards, so the staff member suggested that the officer add a civil service engineer to the suggestion with the arrangement that the civil service engineer split the monetary award which he was entitled to with the officer. The annual savings for the suggestion amounted to $$100,000$ per year in $1963$ dollars. The top award the officer could receive is dinner for two at the officers' club. What should the officer do$?$