Defense's Acquisition of the Composite Health Care System

Abstract

We appreciate the opportunity to comment on Defense's on-going efforts to acquire and test the Composite Health Care System--commonly referred to as CHCS. Defense is now involved in the operational test and evaluation (OT&E) phase and expects to complete this phase and be in a position to make a deployment decision in October 1990. My testimony today discusses some of the uncertainties Defense is facing in obtaining the information necessary to make a procurement/deployment decision. These uncertainties relate primarily to whether Defense (1) has allowed itself sufficient time to test and evaluate CHCS adequately and (2) can sufficiently justify the system's estimated $2 billion in benefits prior to its deployment decision. Today, we are issuing our report that discusses, in more detail, the results of our monitoring efforts

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 15, 1990
Accession Number
ADA282301

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Congress
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Deployment
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Information Systems
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Facilities
  • Physicians
  • Procurement
  • System Software
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Therapy

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Medical or Health Care Field.