Chemical Weapons: Sustained Leadership, Along with Key Strategic Management Tools, is Needed to Guide DOD's Destruction Program

Abstract

Congress expressed concerns about the Chemical Demilitarization Program cost and schedule, and its management structure. In 2001, the program underwent a major reorganization. Following a decade long trend of missed schedule milestones, in September 2001, the Department of Defense (DOD) revised the schedule, which extended planned milestones and increased program cost estimates beyond the 1998 estimate of $15 billion to $24 billion. GAO was asked to (1) examine the effect that recent organization changes have had on program performance and (2) assess the progress DOD and the Army have made in meeting the revised 2001 cost and schedule and Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) deadlines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
AD1153843

Entities

People

  • Bonita Oden
  • Charles Perdue
  • Donald Snyder
  • John Buehler
  • Nancy Benco
  • Pam Valentine
  • Raymond J. Decker
  • Rodell Anderson
  • Steve Boyles

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Business Administration
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Congress
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Environmental Protection
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Acquisition
  • Nerve Agents
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Environmental Engineering.