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GAO-09-978R 1 (2009-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanpm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i ~G A 0 A countabiilty I Integrity Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 28, 2009 The Honorable Neil Abercrombie Chairman The Honorable Roscoe Bartlett Ranking Member Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: Defense Acquisitions: Army Aviation Modernization Has Benefited from Increased Funding but Several Challenges Need to Be Addressed The Army's current efforts to transform and modernize its aviation assets began in 1999, seeking to maintain and improve the warfighting capabilities of the existing force as well as to invest in science and technology in a way that improved the future force. To accomplish these goals, the Army focused on upgrading and modernizing existing equipment, rapidly fielding new equipment, incorporating new technologies as they became available, and restructuring aviation warfighting units. Initially, fielding the developmental Comanche helicopter was a key focus of modernization, but when the Comanche program was terminated in 2004, an investment strategy was presented to Congress that would redistribute $14.6 billion of planned Comanche funding through fiscal year 2011 to enhance a broad range of Army aviation modernization efforts. Furthermore, the Army is currently re-evaluating the plans that were established in 2004 by conducting several assessments, tracking progress, and assessing future capability requirements, and intends to develop an updated Aviation Modernization Plan in 2010. Given this, you asked us to determine: What is the Army's current investment strategy for its aviation forces? How do the current aviation plans differ from the initial post-Comanche plans and what are the causes of the differences?' What challenges does the current investment strategy face? To address these objectives, we conducted our work at the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Army, Program Executive Office Aviation, Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, and selected aviation and missile program offices, holding discussions and interviews with appropriate DOD and Army officials. For each question, we compared army aviation acquisition plans, analyzed investment data 'Initial post-Comanche plans were established after the Comanche termination in 2004. GAO-09-978R Defense Acquisitions

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