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PSAD-79-86 1 (1979-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazke0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUE% ENT AND SYSTEMS ACQU1ITION DIVISION B-163058 JUNE 25, 1979 The Honorable Harold Brown The Secretary of Defense Attention: Assistant for Audit Reports Room 3A336 ASD (Comptroller) Dear Mr. Secretary: During calendar year 1978, we reviewed (and individually reported on) the military services' development test and evaluation (DT&E) of six weapon systems totaling an estimated $12 billion in development and procurement costs. (See enc. I.) This letter brings to your attention problems that, in our opinion, are common to all programs reviewed and require your attention for their resolution. In general, our review showed that as the design and development phase progressed, the six programs experienced cost growth, schedule slippages, and performance degra- dation problems. To offset some of the increased cost and schedule slippages, the agencies responsible for developing the systems, without formally assessing risks and benefits, (1) reduced the scope of (and hariware for) DT&E during critical system and subsystem tests, (2) advanced programs into operational testing and production before the completion of DT&E on the basis that problems noted could be better handled later in the acquisition cycle, and (3) approved concurrent production and development. In five of the six programs, planned tests resolving technical uncertainties affecting mission success (battle outcomes) either were reduced or not performed without any formal or clear assessment of the risks involved. Also, final test reports either were not availaole or did not state the critical issues to be resolvec before a given stage of development coulo c considered success- fully demonstrated or completed. / PSAD-79-86 ( (957?C6) 54-.77

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