Strategic Defense Initiative Program: Better Management Direction and Controls Needed.

Abstract

The Department of Defense's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is a multibillion dollar research program to determine the feasibility of establishing a defense system against nuclear ballistic missiles by the early 1990s. A key element of the system is battle management/command, control, and communications (BM/C3) which includes the systems that tie weapons, sensors, and computers together. BM/C3 is controversial because of its complexity, and it could be a critical limiting factor to the entire SDI system design. The Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense, House Committee on Appropriations, asked GAO to assess the SDI Organization's (SDIO) management of the Systems Analysis and Battle Management (SABM) program element, particularly as it related to the BM/C3 component.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188044

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Battle Management
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Defense Industry
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Personal Computers
  • Standards
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Systems Analysis

Readers

  • Economics
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control