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GAO-05-1019R 1 (2005-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptarbv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A ... nabiity * Integrty' FReiability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 27, 2005 The Honorable John Warner Chairman The Honorable Carl Levin Ranking Minority Member Committee on Armed Services United States Senate Subject: Briefing on DOD's Report on Commercial Communications Satellite Services Procurement Process The Department of Defense (DOD) submitted to the Congress on July 29, 2005 a report entitled Defense Commercial Communications Satellite Services Procurement Process.1 In response to direction from your committee,2 we reviewed DOD's report to determine the extent to which it addressed the seven recommendations contained in our December 2003 report on how DOD procures fixed commercial satellite bandwidth services.4 On September 2, 2005, we briefed the Committee on the results of our review. This letter summarizes and transmits that briefing. The full briefing, including our scope and methodology, is reprinted as appendix I. We conducted our review during August 2005 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Background DOD has for many years augmented its internally owned and operated satellite communications capability by leasing commercial fixed satellite services. Demand has been increasing in recent years, as the military has come to rely more heavily on commercial satellite communications to plan and support operations and as DOD moves toward a network-centric 1DOD prepared the report in response to section 803 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, Pub. L. No. 108-375, October 28, 2004. 2Senate Report No. 109-69, May 17, 2005. 3GAO, Satellite Communications: Strategic Approach Needed for DOD's Procurement of Commercial Satellite Bandwidth, GA -)4-'206 (Washington, D.C.: Dec 10, 2003). 4Bandwidth is the range of frequencies that can pass over a given transmission channel. Fixed satellite service refers to a radio communication service between fixed earth stations at specific locations by means of one or more satellites. GAO-05-1019R DOD's Report on Commercial Communications Satellite Page I

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