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GAO-16-156R 1 (2015-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaajjs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: c(AO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 October 29, 2015 Congressional Committees Space Acquisitions: GAO Assessment of DOD Responsive Launch Report This report formally transmits a briefing, with updated information, that we originally sent to congressional defense committees on August 18, 2015. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014 (Pub. L. No. 113-66, § 915 (2013)), included a provision for GAO to provide an assessment of the Department of Defense's (DOD) responsive launch report within 60 days of issuance.1 We updated the information in the briefing to reflect the final results of our work. The NDAA for fiscal year 2014 directed the DOD Executive Agent for Space (EA for Space) to provide in its report, a study of 1. existing and past operationally responsive, low-cost launch efforts by domestic or foreign governments or industry; 2. conditions or requirements for responsive launch that would provide the necessary military value; 3. various methods to develop an operationally responsive, low-cost launch capability; and 4. viability of greater utilization of innovative methods. Additionally, the NDAA for fiscal year 2014 directed the EA for Space to provide a consolidated plan for developing an operationally responsive, low-cost launch capability within DOD. The EA for Space office reported the results of its study to the congressional defense committees in June 2015.2 This report discusses: (1) the extent to which DOD's report addresses the information called for in the NDAA for fiscal year 2014, and (2) the challenges, if any, DOD may face as it pursues a responsive launch capability. To assess the extent to which the DOD's June 2015 operationally responsive low-cost launch report addresses the information called for in the NDAA for fiscal year 2014, we reviewed the report and compared it to information called for in the NDAA for fiscal year 2014, interviewed officials from the EA for Space office and discussed the data and approach used to develop the report and its findings. To identify any challenges DOD may face as it pursues responsive launch options, we interviewed DOD officials from the EA for Space office, Air Force Space Command, the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office, U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and contractor personnel from two 1The term responsive launch generally means the ability to launch space assets to their intended orbits as the need arises, possibly to augment or reconstitute existing space capabilities. 2Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Operationally Responsive, Low-Cost Launch (ORLCL) Congressional Report, Report to Congressional Committees (June 2015). GAO-16-156R DOD Responsive Launch

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