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GAO-08-884R 1 (2008-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawuz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: S=GAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 15, 2008 The Honorable Neil Abercrombie Chairman The Honorable Jim Saxton Ranking Member Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives The Honorable Gene Taylor Chairman The Honorable Roscoe Bartlett Ranking Member Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: Rapid Acquisition of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles About 75 percent of casualties in current combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are attributed to improvised explosive devices (IED). To mitigate the threat from these weapons, the Department of Defense (DOD) initiated the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program, which uses a tailored acquisition approach to rapidly acquire and field the vehicles. In May 2007, the Secretary of Defense affirmed MRAP as DOD's single most important acquisition program. To date, more than $22 billion has been appropriated to acquire more than 15,000 MRAP vehicles, and about 6,600 of the vehicles have been fielded. In view of the importance of this program and the significant cost involved, you asked us to (1) describe DOD's approach for and progress in implementing its strategy for rapidly acquiring and fielding MRAP vehicles, and (2) identify the challenges remaining for the program. To describe DOD's approach for and progress in implementing its strategy for rapidly acquiring and fielding MRAP vehicles, we reviewed DOD's plans to buy, test, and field the vehicles and discussed the plans with cognizant department and contractor officials. To identify the remaining challenges for the program, we reviewed the results of testing and DOD's plans to upgrade and sustain the vehicles. We conducted this performance audit from June 2007 to July 2008 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable GAO-08-884R MRAP Rapid Acquisition

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