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B-164250 1 (1974-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafnz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED lM. WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-164250 REFERENCE COPY MAY 2 11974Q Do not remove fProm the Reart The Honorable Les Asp: R.Ct4r 0: - ect~ S, SS House of RepresentativebaV 1e ost. tritpty. Dear Mr. Aspin: The enclosed information is provided in response to questions by your office about selected aspects of the Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense program. Safeguard is one of the Mrg-ramiias included in our a elaluations of major weapon systems. At the time the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Mis- sile Systems was signed in May 1972, the approved Safeguard program consisted of a Ballistic Missile Defense Center at Colorado Springs, Colorado; deployment sites at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Malmstrom, Montana; and advanced preparation of deployment sites at Whiteman, Missouri, and Warren, Wyoming. As you know, the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Mis- sile Systems reduced the Safeguard program from a planned 12-site deployment to two sites and the Congress later limited the program to only one site. The Army estimates that about $481 million of lost effort re- / sulted from the site reductions. Safeguard officials, however, have identified potential users for about $112 million of the excess equipment and nm'erial-,, Corps of Engineers officials estimate that about $110 million of the lost effort was attributable to termination and res- toration costs of the Malmstrom site. This site was about 10 percent completed when the treaty was signed. The enclosure also provides the information requested by your of- fice concerning the Army's handling of certain costs in the Safeguard Selected Acquisition Reports. The June 30, 1973, Selected Acquisition Rep-ort- coss a'tlTegories contained estimated costs applicable to the three sites which were canceled. The costs applicable to the canceled sites should have been elim- inated from the cost change categories in order to have established a meaningful cost trail between the May 1969 planning estimate and the June 30, 1973, one-site estimate. The reduction from the four sites to the one site was reported as a quantity change. According to the C 095l71

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