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B-163058 1 (1973-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaenj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESi Rl ICTED - Not to be released outside ..the Lu..a AP I P# Accounfing Office eitcept co-i tile basis of specific a I - by the Offk'e of Congressional Relat-ons, a record oY vwich is kept by the Distribution Section, Publications Branchr, OAS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REEAEDWASHINGTON. D.C. ZMU8 2 ,07 5- ITRELEASED JU 2 01 B-163058 JL 26 I The Honorable F. Edward Hebert Chairman, Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives ' Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested in your letter (see enclosure) of October 11, 1972, we made als cqhck o , - h o inor weapons systems being developed by h6e Army and three by the Air Force\to determine whether problems similar to those noted in our report' to the Congress on Navy minor weapon systems existed. Our review was not intended to be broad enough in scope to permit an overall assessment of minor systems management by the Army and Air Force; we believe, however, that sytems in these services, much like those we reviewed in the Navy, were going fMom advanced development to full-scale development (aso re e r o T t as engineering development) before sufficient work was comleted. Some of the indications that full-scale development started prematurely include (1) establishing new specifications during full-scale development without their feasibility being proven during earlier work, (2) insufficient testing of the system during advanced development to insure that the desired perform- ance requirements would be met, (3) not performing enough work before full-scale development to insure that desired reliability would be met and (4) providing incomplete, contradictory, and possibly misleading information to decisionmakers to support the start of full-scale development. Summaries on the minor systems which, we believe, entered full-scale development prematurely are presented below. 2 'Better Management Needed Over Decisions to Start Full-Scale Development of Minor Weapons Systems (B-163058, Oct. 6, 1972). ,*lot

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