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NSIAD-83-59 1 (1983-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabndb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D C 20548 NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION JRIJ old~~~ *'~ B-205940 September 12, 1983 The Honorable Ted Stevens Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Sub3ect- Analysis of HARM Procurement Strategies (GAO/NSIAD-83-59) Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested in your letter of June 24, 1983, we have made an analysis of the procurement strategies proposed for the High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) program. The enclosed Appendix outlines a number of reservations we have about the strategy outlined in the letter the Deputy Secretary of Defense sent you on June 16, 1983. In our opinion, the Deputy Secretary's proposal, which defers competition until a low-cost seeker is developed, will have little impact on reducing the overall cost ot the HARM program because the low-cost seeker will probably not be available until after most HARMs are scheduled to be procured. Furthermore, it is not clear to us that this strategy will expand the mobilization base as effectively as the Navy's two-source strategy. We found that the two-source strategy is still a viable option; however,-we believe that there can be little assurance about the extent price competition will provide a return on the investment which must be made to bring the second source on line. In conducting this analysis, we intErviewed officials in the HARM program office as well as othere in the Navy, Air Force, and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). We met with representatives from Texas Instruments, Bendix, Ford Aerospace, and Raytheon, and visited the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, California. We reviewed reports, plans, briefing materials, design documents, and cost estimates related to the HARM program. Due to a limited amount of time for doing the audit work, our focus was on the alternative acquisition strategies, their potential benefits, and the reasonableness of the strategy selected by OSD. In addition, we review!d the feasibility of developing a reduced cost seeker for HARM. We did not address affordability, technical performance, testing, overall program management, requirements deternd threat analysis.

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