Hazardous Material Management on the Grizzly Program.
Abstract
The Grizzly, an Acquisition Category II program, is an Army vehicle designed with a full-vehicle-width mine-cleaning blade, a power-driven arm, and a commander's control station integrated on an Ml Abrams tank chassis. When fielded, a two-person crew will operate the Grizzly. The Army designed the Grizzly to clear lanes in natural obstacles, such as streams, dry gaps, and fallen trees, and in man-made obstacles, such as wire, craters, and mine fields, so that an Army maneuver force can safely advance through the cleared lanes. The Grizzly entered the engineering and manufacturing development acquisition phase in December 1996. The Grizzly Program Office plans to hold the low-rate initial production milestone review in the second quarter of FY 2000 and to acquire a total of 366 Grizzly vehicles from FYs 2000 through 2013 at estimated life-cycle costs of $4.6 billion for the program. Objective. The Joint Logistics Commanders requested an audit of hazardous material management for major Defense systems. The Grizzly is one of nine programs included in this requested audit. The overall audit objective was to evaluate the adequacy of planning and providing for the reduction and control of hazardous materials used in the design, manufacture, maintenance, and disposal for the Grizzly. Specifically, we evaluated whether the program manager managed the selection, use, and disposal of hazardous materials so that DoD would incur the lowest cost required to protect human health and the environment over the system's life cycle consistent with the system's cost, schedule, and performance goals. We also evaluated the management control program as it related to the audit objective.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 17, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA366778
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense