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NSIAD-95-172R 1 (1995-05-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackvi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States G A O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 National Security and International Affairs Division B-261509 May 26, 1995 The Honorable William J. Perry The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: As a part of our on going review of the Department of Defense's (DOD) fiscal year 1996 budget request, we have been examining the Army's plan to begin Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) of the Joint Surveillance Target and Attack Radar System's (JSTARS) Light Ground Station Module (LGSM). This correspondence is to inform you that our evaluation raises serious questions about the LGSM's maturity to enter LRIP at this time. The Army plans to begin LGSM LRIP by awarding a fiscal year 1995 funded contract for eight LGSMs at a cost of about $45.8 million. The contract has a fiscal year 1996 option for two additional LGSMs at a cost of about $11.3 million. We understand that this contract will be awarded imminently, perhaps as soon as the last week in May or the first week in June. DOD delegated the LRIP decision to the Army. However, that decision was to be based on the LGSM's having met DOD set exit criteria during Force Development Test and Evaluation (FDT&E) and Reliability Confidence Testing (RCT). On the basis of a preliminary review of the LGSM FDT&E and RCT test results, it is clear that the LGSM has not met those exit criteria. For example, in a draft interim LGSM evaluation report dated February 21, 1995, the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) reported that the LGSM had met only five of the 12 exit criteria. It reported insufficient data to judge three of the criteria and failure on the remaining four. Further examination of the AMSAA report and the Army's Test and Experimentation Command's (TEXCOM) FDT&E report raises serious questions about even those criteria AMSAA accepted as having been met. GAO/NSIAD-95-172R Production of Joint STARS LGSM

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