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NSIAD-84-124 1 (1984-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnka0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A& UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE / WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 NATIONAL SECURIITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DoVISION JUN 5 1984 B-214281 Mr. John W. Boyd Associate Administrator for Management National Aeronautics and Space Administration The Honorable James P. Wade, Jr. Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Research and Engineering Department of Defense Subject: NASA's Requirement for a Single Solid Rocket Refurbishment and Assembly Facility at Kennedy Space Center (GAO/NSIAD-84-124) GAO evaluated the extent to which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) examined possible alternatives to constructing a single solid rocket booster refurbishment and as- sembly facility for the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center. NASA plans to construct the facility to meet projected require- ments of both NASA and the Department of Defense (DOD) to refur- bish 24 solid rocket booster flight sets a year by fiscal year 1988. Additional capacity is needed because NASA will be able to refurbish only 16 sets a year when modifications to existing fa- cilities at Kennedy Space Center are completed in 1984. In a draft report that we provided to you in February 1984, we proposed that NASA and DOD evaluate activating a facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, which was designed to process 10 boost- er flight sets a year, before proceeding with the award of a con- tract specifying construction at Kennedy Space Center. In response to our proposal, NASA and DOD studied solid rock- et booster facility alternatives. The study concluded that the costs of using a combination of facilities at Kennedy Space Center and at Vandenberg Air Force Base would exceed the costs of using a single facility at Kennedy Space Center by $140.3 million, (392051) 124426

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