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Weapons acquisition reform : actions needed to address systems engineering and developmental testing challenges : report to the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Procurement.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures--Management.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- United States--Armed Forces--Weapons systems.
- Armed Forces--Procurement.
- Armed Forces--Weapons systems.
- Expenditures, Public.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 34 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Actions needed to address systems engineering and developmental testing challenges
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2011]
- Summary:
- For the past 2 years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been implementing the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act (Reform Act) requirements for systems engineering and developmental testing. These activities are important to DOD's ability to control acquisition costs, which increased by $135 billion over the past 2 years for 98 major defense acquisition programs. GAO was asked to determine (1) DOD's progress in implementing the Reform Act's requirements and (2) whether there are challenges at the military service level that could affect their systems engineering and developmental testing activities. To do this, GAO analyzed implementation status documents, discussed developmental testing office concerns with current and former DOD officials, and analyzed military service workforce growth plans and test range funding data.
- Contents:
- Background
- DOD is continuing to implement reform act requirements, but challenges remain
- Workforce challenges could affect services' systems engineering and developmental testing efforts
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF title screen (viewed Dec. 8, 2011).
- "September 2011."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "GAO-11-806."
- OCLC:
- 768132364
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