Review and Analysis of GAO Reports on Major Weapon Systems

Abstract

DoD major weapon systems historically have been over budget, behind schedule, and typically under performing in terms of suitability. The Secretary of Defense proposed a fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget that ended or curtailed all or part of at least a half dozen major defense acquisition programs that were over cost, behind schedule, or no longer suited to meet the warfighters current needs. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) publishes a major DoD weapon systems report every March. The GAO spends a considerable amount of time evaluating several dozen major weapon system programs and provides a two-page analysis of the largest defense programs. This research project examines eight major DOD weapon systems using the yearly published GAO reports from 2003 2011. The purpose of this research is to understand what risk management was being performed on those programs, how it was implemented, when it was implemented, and how effective it was. The desired outcome is to make recommendations on improvements to the risk management process recommended by the Risk Management Guide for DoD Acquisition (DoD, 2006)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 24, 2012
Accession Number
ADA584652

Entities

People

  • Donald Mckeon

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Risk Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Systems Analysis and Design