DoD's Fiscal Year 1989 Test Resource Budget
Abstract
This fact sheet is in response to Representative Aspin that the General Accounting Office determine the amount of funds budgeted by the Department of Defense in fiscal year 1989 for test and evaluation of DOD's major weapon system acquisitions. This information is intended to give the Congress a baseline for evaluating future development and operational test resource funding requests. Test and evaluation resources included in DOD's fiscal year 1989 budget amounted to about $5 billion. Of this amount, $4.1 billion is allotted for the Major Range and Test Facility Base. This base consists of 21 ranges and test facilities used to support development and operational testing and training. The costs associated with this base include daily operating activities, military personnel salaries, capital investments, and charges to customers for using the ranges and test facilities. The remaining amount, approximately $900 million, is allotted for a mixture of Office of the Secretary of Defense and military service programs that include acquiring development and operational test resources. Although DOD has a budgeting system for displaying actual and programmed resources, it does not aggregate all resources attributable to test and evaluation. According to DOD officials, there are limitations and constraints involved in trying to accurately identify budget figures for all related test and evaluation resources.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 25, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA226970
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office