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NSIAD-84-152 1 (1984-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnlj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION B-216037 AUG 1? 1984 General Richard Thompson Commander U.S. Army Materiel Command 124996 Department of the Army Dear General Thompson: Subject: GAO Concerns Relating to Additional EQUATE Pro- curements and Improvements (GAO/NSIAD-84-152) While we have not completed our survey of the Army's Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment Program, we have identified several concerns that should be considered before awarding con- tracts for additional Electronic Quality Assurance Test Equipment (EQUATE) procurements and improvements. EQUATE is the Army's standard automatic test equipment at the general support and higher maintenance levels. Currently, the Army has 131 EQUATEs on hand or under contract and plans to procure 57 more units through fiscal year 1988. Expenditures for several EQUATE improvements also are planned. While these procurements and improvements will occur over several years, the next contract awards are scheduled for September 21, 1984, and September 30, 1984. In total, the procurements and im- provements will cost about $84 million and $133 million, respectively. We believe that the additional EQUATE procurements and planned improvements need to be reassessed because: --New generation automatic test equipment, called Inter- mediate Forward Test Equipment (IFTE), will replace about 35 forward-support EQUATEs; this should eliminate the need for some planned EQUATE procurements. --EQUATEs currently used to develop Test Program Sets, or software, could be made available for other uses; this would reduce the need for some EQUATE procurements. --IFTE or other alternatives could replace EQUATE at other maintenance levels; this could eliminate the need for most if not all planned improvements. (943606)

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