Nuclear weapons : ten-year budget estimates for modernization omit key efforts, and assumptions and limitations are not fully transparent : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Contributor:

Pendleton, John H.

Trimble, David C. (David Crisler)

Standardized Title:

Nuclear weapons (2014 June)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of Energy--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States. Department of Defense.

United States. Department of Energy.

Nuclear weapons--United States--Planning.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons--United States--Costs.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Nuclear weapons--Costs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 33 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Ten-year budget estimates for modernization omit key efforts, and assumptions and limitations are not fully transparent

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.

Summary:

DOE and DOD are undertaking an extensive effort to sustain and modernize the nuclear weapons stockpile, research and production infrastructure, delivery systems, and the nuclear command and control system. Completing this effort is expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars over decades. Congress mandated the development of an annual report on the departments' plans and 10-year budget estimates for these efforts. Congress also mandated GAO to review the accuracy and completeness of the DOE and DOD report, with respect to the budget estimate contents and methodology. This report addresses whether DOE's and DOD's 10-year budget estimates for sustaining and modernizing the nuclear deterrent are consistent with their funding plans, including whether the report provides complete information and a transparent methodology. GAO analyzed the DOE and DOD plans and estimates as of July 2013, and the DOE and DOD guidance and methodologies used to prepare their budget estimates. To improve the completeness and transparency of subsequent joint reports, GAO recommends that the Secretary of Defense direct DOD components to (1) include at least a range of potential 10-year budget estimates for projects and programs, based on preliminary cost information (this is consistent with a December 2013 recommendation GAO made to DOE); and (2) document assumptions and limitations affecting its NC3 funding estimates. DOD agreed with these recommendations.

Notes:

"June 2014."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed July 27, 2014).

"GAO-14-373."

OCLC:

884693322