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NSIAD-92-241R 1 (1992-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackbv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington. D.C. 20548 National Security and International Affairs Division B-248932 June 15, 1992 146934 The Honorable John Glenn Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: As you requested, we are reviewing the Department of Defense's chemical and biological detection program, for which the Army is the lead service. This program includes the production of the chemical agent monitor (CAM), a hand- held device used to monitor contamination levels after a chemical agent attack. On May 19, 1992, we briefed your staff on the status of our review, and this letter summarizes our work on the CAM procurement. Our work shows that -- the U.S. contractor has experienced difficulty producing acceptable CAMs, -- testing of production units disclosed significant defects, and -- the Army's fiscal year 1993 budget request for the CAM may be premature. BACKGROUND The Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is responsible for determining materiel needs. In September 1984, it identified an urgent need for a portable, hand- held, automatic contamination monitoring system that could quickly detect mustard and nerve agent vapors and provide a relative measure of the amount of contamination present. TRADOC determined that the available chemical agent detectors were unacceptable to meet this need because of their slow response time. In response to the need, the Army selected the CAM, which was originally produced in the United Kingdom for the Ministry of Defense by Graseby Dynamics, Ltd. (currently Graseby Ionics), London, England. GAO/NSIAD-92-241R Chemical Agent Detection C13 ~t4Q

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