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GAO-11-179R 1 (2010-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanvz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G AO Aco untakbity I Integrity * Reliabiity United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 December 21, 2010 The Honorable James R. Langevin Chairman The Honorable Michael R. Turner Ranking Member Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: Missile Defense: European Phased Adaptive Approach Acquisitions Face Synchronization, Transparency, and Accountability Challenges This report formally transmits our briefing on acquisition management for the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) (see enc. I). This is one of two products we are issuing in response to your October 13, 2009 request that we evaluate the Department of Defense's (DOD) plans for implementing EPAA. We provided your staff a draft copy of this briefing in a meeting with them on September 22, 2010. We do not make any recommendations in the briefing. We will issue a final report on broader issues of European missile defense that will include the material in the briefing. That final product will have recommendations, as appropriate. Objectives, Scope and Methodology For the briefing we sought to answer two questions: (1) What key acquisition planning and management practices are in place for EPAA? (2) Are there near-term development risks for EPAA? To answer the first question on acquisition management practices, we synthesized management and oversight criteria from the Office of Management and Budget, DOD, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and GAO best acquisition practices for large acquisition to determine key management principles. We then compared EPAA acquisition efforts to these principles. To determine the status of DOD's efforts, we reviewed DOD and MDA documentation related to EPAA, including the Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report and MDA's Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Accountability Report. We met with MDA and Office of the Secretary of Defense officials. We also visited U.S. European Command and U.S. Strategic Command to understand their needs. To answer the second question on near-term development risks, we reviewed MDA's BMDS acquisition documentation, including the integrated master test plan and budget documents. We met with officials from MDA directorates and element program offices as well as the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and visited contractor facilities. We also used prior GAO work regarding best acquisition practices to assess those risks. GAO-11-179R Defense Acquisitions

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