Future Years Defense Program: Optimistic Estimates Lead to Billions in Overprogramming

Abstract

We are pleased to be here today to discuss our July 1994 report on the Department of Defense's (DOD) Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). Our report stated that DOD had included more programs in its 1995-99 FYDP than future spending plans could support and that the amount overprogrammed could exceed $150 billion. Since that time, the President and DOD have agreed to changes that could correct some of the imbalance between programs and available funds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 19, 1995
Accession Number
AD1154446

Entities

People

  • Henry L. Jr Hinton

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Submarines
  • Base Closures
  • Budgets
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Corporate Information Management
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Money
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Quality Of Life
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

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  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Systems Analysis and Design