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handle is hein.gao/gaobackcd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 National Security and International Affairs Division B-240467 147115 July 17, 1992 The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable John P. Murtha Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives During our recent review of the Advanced Cruise Missile (ACM) program,' we became aware of efforts by the Department of Defense to restart development of a variant of the baseline ACM. Although Congress directed the Air Force to terminate such development in November 1991, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Policy (OUSD/P) began evaluating ways to restart development and thereby preserve an option to modify ACMs in the future. This letter identifies funds in the fiscal year 1993 budget no longer needed for the variant, and discusses several issues that would need to be evaluated should serious consideration be given to modifying ACMs to the variant configuration. BACKGROUND In 1985, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) established a requirement for a weapons system to destroy a specific set of targets for which existing systems--including ACM--were considered ineffective. In 1987, the Air Force validated the need to develop and produce 120 modified ACMs (referred to as variants) to satisfy this requirement. In fiscal year 1990, the Air Force began developing the ACM variant and has since spent about $60 million. The- Air--Force-°requested $79-.8-million- for the ACM variant program in fiscal year 1992. However, in November 1991, 'Strategic Missiles: ACM Program, Opportunity for Additional Savings (GAO/NSIAD-92-154, May 6, 1992). GAO/NSIAD-92-246R ACM Variant Program

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