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C-MASAD-82-7 1 (1982-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabczc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: It / /0%)t This is an unclassified digest furnished in lieu of a report containing classified security information. REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES (U, TESTS AND EVALUATIONS STILL IN 'PROGRESS SHOULD INDICATE DIVISION AIR DEFENSE GUN'S POTENTIAL EF- FECTIVENESS DIGEST It is not possible now to make a reliable assess- ment of the Division Air Defense (DIVAD) gun's potential in combat. The system that emerged from prototype testing in November 1980 was not fully developed. Several critical tests are still in progress, and evaluations of the results will not be available until April 1982, when a production decision is due. However, other important tests will not be completed or have been deferred until after the production decision ............ Little is known about how well DIVAD meets the Army's requirements for maintain- ability, logistics supportability, and ease of operation by the troops. The Army's primary emphasis has been on developing the hardware. GAO undertook this review because of the impend- ing important decisions to be made both by the Secretary of Defense and the Congress. They involve consideration of the forthcoming Army request for $814 million contained in its fiscal year 1983 program to procure 96 DIVADs, spares, and ammunition. The total program cost for 618 DIVADs is about $4.5 billion. (See pp. 1 and 2.) A key to any assessment of DIVAD is a 3-month test completed in January 1982. The Army refers to this testing as a check test because it is designed primarily to determine if all short- comings identified in tests conducted in 1980 were corrected. The testing was planned to provide data needed to assess DIVAD's technical performance. Other critical assessments to be made, not as heavily dependent on this test- ing, cover human factors and system support- ability. A fixed-price incentive contract, with a ceiling price of $1.725 billion, was awarded to Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation in May 1981 after a competition with General Dynamics Corporation. The contract requires Ford to complete engineering development of DIVAD and produce and deliver 276 of them. i C-MASAD 117III 1 17727 -82-7 FEBRUARY 26, 1982

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