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PSAD-81-15 1 (1980-12-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbhd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: It 3 1,X Y UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ACq0GURMWr ravND SDECEMBER 5, 1980 B-201171 The Honorable Harold Brown ii DI l II The Secretary of Defense 113924 Attention: Assistant for Audit Reports Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject Defense's Overall Master Plan for Air Defense 'Should Consider Certain Issues in its Develop- ment3(PSAD-81-15) This is to inform YOU plans to terminate our survey of the Department of Defense's efforts to defend the continental United States against strategic attack. The assignment was intended to determine the extent to which recommendations made in our prior report on atmospheric defense (PSAD-78-86, Air Defense Mission Must Be Clarified Before Billions Are Spent On Modernization, May 10, 1978), were implemented and the current status of missile and at- mospheric defense systems. Since the issuance of our report, the Congress, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Air Force have undertaken efforts which appear to coincide with the thrust of our recommendations. Specifically, we noted that during the fiscal year 1980 appropriations hearings, the Congress deferred further funding of selected air defense systems until Defense submitted an air defense master plan for the continental United States. It is our understanding that the plan will be provided to the Congress before the fiscal year 1982 appropriations hearings. In addition, we learned that the Defense Audit Service recently reviewed the air defense program and is expected to issue a final report in November 1980. We were also informed that the Office of Management and Budget is doing work in the area and recently sent a team to investigate the dis- tant early warning line in Canada. (951572) .. 1 _ I/ 1 LJ

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