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GAO-02-898R 1 (2002-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 July 24, 2002 The Honorable Tom Harkin The Honorable Charles E. Grassley The Honorable Peter G. Fitzgerald The Honorable Richard Durbin United States Senate The Honorable Lane Evans The Honorable James A. Leach The Honorable Jim Nussle House of Representatives Subject: 2002 Update of the 155 mm Lightweight Howitzer In July 2000 and April 2001, we issued reports to you and several other members of Congress describing the schedule, cost, and technical status of the 155 mm Lightweight Howitzer program.' The 155 mm Lightweight Howitzer is expected to replace the M-198 towed howitzer. The Army-Marine Corps Lightweight Howitzer Joint Program Office is directing this program's development, with BAE SYSTEMS (BAE), a British company, as the prime contractor. This report responds to your request of February 27, 2002, that we continue to monitor and report on this program due to your continued concerns about its schedule, cost, and technical difficulties and the program's readiness for low-rate initial production. Results in Brief Since our April 2001 report, all key milestones have slipped in large part because a 2-year low-rate initial production phase has been added to the program to provide production representative howitzers for operational testing. Correspondingly, the full-rate production decision has slipped from September 2002 to October 2004. The initial fielding of the howitzer by the Marine Corps has slipped to March 2005 or 8 months. The initial fielding of the howitzer by the Army has slipped to August 2006, or 17 months. 'See U.S. General Accounting Office, Status Update of the New 155 mm Lightweight Howitzer, GAO- 01-603R (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 10, 2001) and Defense Acquisitions: Howitzer Program Experiencing Cost Increases and Schedule Delays, GAO/NSIAD-00-182 (Washington, D.C.: July 28, 2000). GAO-02-898R 155mm Lightweight Howitzer

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