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B-164240 1 (1974-02-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagrq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS FEB 4 1974 ACQUISITION DIVISION B -164240 The Honorable The Secretary of Defense LM096769 De'r Mr. Secretary: During our her Adv all-istic.Mssile Defa gra , we noted a problem area which we be- lieve should be brought to your attention while you are in the process of formulating the fiscal year 1975 budget for the Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency (ABMDA). h _J, hagedvwith ,finding .solutions- to-certain nreso-lved b~istimi~seA dfense, problem areas, which it considers to be cq ttical. However, despite a need for additional research funds for these areas, funds are being allocated to other projects to which AEMDA has assigned a lower priority. We believe that you may wish to consider whether the level of ABMDA's expenditures for these lower priority projects is appropriate in view of the need for addi- tional funds to solve technology problems which have been assigned a higher priority. A case in point is the planned procurement and construction of the Advanced Field Array Radar (AFAR) at Kwajalein for the primary purpose of providing ABMDA with a field test facility. Procurement and installation will cost ABMDA about $90 million, and the facility will not be operational before 1977. As a consequence, critical de- tection and discrimination research work may be delayed by several years. We believe that ABMDA could reduce costs and obtain the needed data sooner by modifying and using the Safeguard Missile Site Radar at Kwajalein and/or the Site Defense Radar as a field test facility. Another example is the Parallel Element Processing Ensemble Computer (PEPE). Although ABMDA has demonstrated through hardware tests that PEPE could increase the capacity of the Site Defense com- puter, it is continuing fabrication and testing. However, since PEPE is not needed by ABMDA, engineering development and procure- ment should be funded by the Site Defense Project Office when and if a valid requirement for PEPE is established. This would free resources for application to ABMDA's primary mission. p~ Q4 76

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