In March 1996, the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a classified report on the Department of Defense's (DOD) requirements, capabilities, and plans for conducting airborne suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD). This is an unclassified summary of that report. Airborne SEAD has been a critical component of U.S. combat alr power fo many years. As part of a broad effort to assess the current and projected U.S. combat air power capabilities, GAO sought to determine whether: (1) SEAD is...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS...
This report provides information on the stipends and expenses of the boards of trustees' and other management advisory personnel who served in fiscal year 1993 at DOD'S FFRDCs. Specifically, the General Accounting Office (GAO) was asked to provide information on: (1) the extent to which federal funds were used by FFRDCs to pay these costs; (2) the range and highest daily stipends paid to individual trustees and other management advisory personnel; (3) FFRDC advisers' costs and where applicable,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS...
Therapeutic human fetal tissue transplantation is a promising area of research that may have application for a broad range of diseases, such as juvenile diabetes and leukemia. Current federally funded research projects use fetal tissue-cells from electively aborted fetuses-to treat patients with Parkinson's disease. Although this research holds promise for treating diseases, concerns have been raised about the acceptance of fetal tissue transplantation; that is, some women might choose to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC HEALTH EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES D IV,...
In summary, we found that more than 14 percent of new recruits leave the services during the first 6 months, and more than 30 percent leave before the end of their first term. Because of this attrition, the services lose a substantial investment in training, time, equipment, and related expenses and must increase accessions to replace these losses. The main reasons for the high attrition rate during the first 6 months are that (1) the services' screening of applicants for disqualifying medical...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS...
During a deployment in the Western Pacific region, a sailor aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln became seriously injured and was seen and treated by a specialist in San Diego-6,000 miles away. Doctor and patient were linked by telemedicine, which, in its broadest sense, refers to the use of communications technology to help deliver medical care without regard to the distance that separates the participants. In addition to the Department of Defense (DOD), other federal agencies, state governments,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS...
The Department of Defense (DOD) increasingly relies on its global network of en route bases to provide logistical support to military airlift aircraft during contingencies. According to Air Mobility Command documents, two en route bases in Spain-Torrejon and Zaragoza-supported about 50 percent of the Air Mobility Command's airlift missions during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. However, according to Spanish government officials, Torrejon Air Base's proximity to Madrid, the capital of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS...
The Department of Defense (DOD) and certain other federal agencies are required to set aside a certain percentage of their research and development (R&D) budgets for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. In fiscal year 1997, this will amount to about $1 billion governmentwide, of which about $500 million is expected to be funded by DOD. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 required GAO to review certain aspects of DOD'S SBIR program and report the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC RESOURCES COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVE LOPMENT...
This report provides information on the readiness of the Army's war reserve equipment prepositioned afloat. Specifically, this report discusses the extent to which the brigade set of war reserve equipment, which is prepositioned on ships, meets the Army's readiness goal. It also addresses the status of the Army's efforts to establish facilities to maintain this brigade set of equipment and develop an information system that accurately measures and reports the readiness condition of war reserve...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS...
TCAS is now installed in a substantial portion of the U.S. commercial fleet, and both the Airline Pilots Association and FAA believe that the system adds a margin of safety to alr travel. However, problems that have emerged prevent the system from reaching its full potential. The aviation community is nearly unanimous in recognizing that TCAS needs to be Improved because it issues too many unnecessary alerts, causes excessive altitude deviations (over 1,000 feet), and causes pilots to miss...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC RESOURCES COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVE LOPMENT...
GAO issued three reports from 1987 to 1990 on agencies use of Schedule C appointment authority. The major thrust of the reports was that agencies were using the authority to hire some employees exclusively for details to the White House. In many instances, Schedule C employee appointment dates were the same, or shortly before, the dates the employees were detailed to the White House. In some cases, the details were already at the White House when the Schedule C appointments were made. GAO's...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIV, *PERSONNEL...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rey, Charles F., GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND...
O DEVELOP INFORMATION ON THE EXTENT AND PRACTICES OF FEDERAL AGENCIES' PROCUREMENTS OF PRIVATE HEALTH CLUB MEMBERSHIPS, WE ANALYZED THE RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE WE DEVELOPED AND ADMINISTERED TO 80 DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES. (See app. V for a list of these organizations.) During the period October 1991 to February 1992, we received responses from 77 departments and agencies for a 96 percent response rate. Of the remaining three agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency submitted an incomplete...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIV, *GOVERNMENT...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT D IV,...
As requested, we are reviewing the financial and management practices of The Aerospace Corporation, which operates a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) sponsored by the Air Force. This report discusses the salary and other benefits provided to Aerospace's corporate officers and other senior management personnel and includes information on Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits on Aerospace compensation costs and congressional actions regarding FFRDC compensation. This...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
This report evaluates the draft 1996 multiyear Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program plan in terms of its scope, depiction of project status and cost estimates, description of changes that occurred after the 1995 CTR multiyear program plan, and release to Congress and the progress, estimated costs, and potential impacts of CTR efforts to help control nuclear weapons and materials, eliminate strategic delivery vehicles, and destroy chemical weapons.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Shafer, F. J., GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND...
Foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) over a U.S. company that performs classified work for the Department of Energy (DOE) presents a national security threat because of the potentially uncontrolled transfer of nuclear weapons-related technology or material to foreign entities. In May 1990, The General Accounting Office (GAO) agreed with Senator John Glenn's office to examine whether DOE and its Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia weapons laboratories had complied with DOE's...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sagalow, M. S., GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC RESOURCES COMMUNITY AND...
Several decades ago, when satellites emerged as vehicles for commercial international telecommunications, the technology was under development and, thus, both risky and expensive. At that time, worldwide organizations were considered the best means for providmg satellite-based services such as basic telephone service, to all nations. One objective of the United States, as stated in the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, was to contribute to world peace and understanding through the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC RESOURCES COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT...
As requested, we reviewed the Air Force's funding requirements for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991 for the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison, Minuteman, Peacekeeper missile, and Advanced Cruise Missile weapon systems and the Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting program to identify areas for potential budget reductions. We provided the results of our analysis to your offices during briefings in July and August 1990, prior to the time the Senate and House conferees reached agreement on the fiscal year...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rabkin, N. J., GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND...
This report responds to February 8 and March 5, 1990, requests by Reps. Dingell and Markey that the General Accounting Office (GAO) examine the adequacy of existing controls by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on the commercial sales and exports of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that can be used to enhance the explosive power of nuclear weapons. The Reprsentatives expressed concern about reported losses of radioactive tritium gas from DOE's...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Paul, J. H., GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC RESOURCES COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC...
With the end of the Cold War, the Asia-Pacific region faces an uncertain security environment. China, once viewed as a counterweight to Soviet aggression, is now viewed as a country that aspires to fill the role of the leading regional power. China is pursuing long-range military modernization that emphasizes the upgrading of its air and naval power and a realignment of its force structure. These actions and China's lack of openness on military matters have raised questions about its...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Shafer, F. J., GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND...
Several laws govern the solicitation and selection of offerors to perform depot workloads. Section 2469a of title 10 of the United States Code provides for special procedures for public-private competitions at the closing Sacramento and San Antonio depots. In particular, section 2469a sets forth certain elements that must be reflected in the solicitation and considered in making the selection of the source for the performance of the workloads. These include requirements that all estimated...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL, *CONTRACT...
By law, federal agencies are to provide preferential hiring consideration to veterans and others as a measure of national gratitude and compensation for their military service. The proposed Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1997, S. 1021, is to amend title 5 of the United States Code to provide that consideration may not be denied to veterans who are eligible for preference when applying for certain positions in federal service and for other purposes. Preference-eligible veterans...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Brostek, Michael, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIV,...
The Apache Longbow helicopter is designed to conduct precision attacks in adverse weather and on battlefields obscured by smoke, automatically engage multiple targets, and provide fire-and-forget missile capability. The Apache Longbow configuration consists of a modified airframe, a fire control radar, and a new Longbow (radio frequency) Hellfire missile. The Army plans to upgrade the entire fleet of 758 Apache helicopters to the Apache Longbow configuration but outfit only 227 with the radar...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
We evaluated DOD'S progress in implementing certain key information superiority activities to provide an indication of how well DOD is progressing toward its information superiority goals. Specifically, we evaluated DOD'S progress in establishing a DOD wide architecture for the information systems known as Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems; developing and implementing the Global Command and Control System (GCCS); and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
In 1993, the Congress enacted the Government Performance and Results Act, commonly referred to as the "Results Act" to address the growing public demand that government become more effective and less costly. The Results Act is a key part of a broad statutory framework enacted during the 1990s that seeks to improve federal management by shtfting decision-making and accountability away from a preoccupation with the activities that government undertakes and toward an emphasis on the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DIV,...
Federal agencies currently have a backlog of about 200 surplus ships waiting to be scrapped. The backlog of ships to be scrapped has grown by about 65 percent since 1994 and little progress has been made in reducing the backlog. Many of the ships to be scrapped are more than 50 years old and millions of dollars are required annually to maintain them. In response to your request, we identified the status of federal ship scrapping programs. This report provides information on (1) the factors...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Concerned with the adequacy of the pace and scope of the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to reduce the size and cost of its headquarters activities, you requested that we review the Department's efforts to reduce its headquarters positions. Specifically, our report discusses the status of DOD'S efforts to reduce, as of the end of fiscal year 1998 (1) headquarters positions and associated costs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Washington Headquarters Services,1 as...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
This report responds to your request that we examine the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) implementation of legislative reforms to the Market Access Program (MAP) and their impact on program participation. Since 1986, MAP has provided funds to nonprofit organizations and commercial firms to help support their promotions of U.S. agricultural products in overseas markets. The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), an agency of USDA, administers this program and estimates that there are...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to increase its annual procurement investment to about $60 billion by fiscal year 2001. DoD has high expectations from this investment: that new weapons will be better yet less expensive,than their predecessors and will be developed in half the time. Essential to getting these kinds of outcomes will be the adaptation of best commercial practices that have enabled leading commercial firms to develop new products faster, cheaper, and better. DoD has begun a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
This report examines the Navy's and the Air Force's development of the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW). JSOW is an air-to-ground missile expected to provide improved capabilities to hit targets from greater distances than many current weapons. JSOW has three warhead variants-wide area, antiarmor, and unitary. Current plans call for procuring a total of 19,000 missiles at an estimated production cost of $5 billion. As requested, we reviewed JSOW to determine whether (1) the missile will provide...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
The International Roughness Index is used throughout the world to measure whether travelers experience a rough or a smooth ride while driving on a highway. The index is a quantitative measure of a vehicle's up-and-down movement while traveling. In the United States, the states use specially equipped vehicles to collect data for the index and report the data to the Department of Transportation (DOT). The Department uses the index to describe the condition of pavement across the nation, to set a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC RESOURCES COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT...
As you requested, we examined the Navy's progress in implementing this pilot project. This report discusses (1) the preliminary results of the Pearl Harbor Pilot on improving performance of maintenance activities, (2) the usefulness of the pilot as a model for future consolidations, and (3) issues related to financial and organizational structures for such consolidations. Our scope and methodology are also described.
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the five countries that comprise the Central Asian Republics (CAR) 1-Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-becarne independent along with Russia and the other former republics of the Soviet Union. The United States has important strategic interests in CAR, including dismantling Kazakhstan's nuclear arsenal; developing oil and gas reserves; and helping stabilize a region surrounded by China, Iran, and Russia. The...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
We appreciate the opportunity to appear here today to discuss the human capital challenges facing the agencies that play key roles in monitoring publicly traded companies and enforcing our nation's trade laws. As you are aware, GAO has been a leading promoter of a more strategic approach to federal human capital issues. We are particularly gratified to come before this subcommittee, as you have been committed advocates of our efforts, sponsoring much of our work in this area. The leadership...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hillman, Richard J, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT,...
Unlike other government and private industrial facilities in the United States, virtually all of the Department of Energy's (DOE) vast complex of research and nuclear facilities is not inspected or licensed by an independent external regulator, such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), to help ensure safe operations. Instead, DOE and its predecessors' have, since 1946, been granted legislative authority to self- regulate nuclear and worker safety in the department's facilities. We have...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *SAFETY, *NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS,...
Home health agencies (RHA) play an important role in the U.S. health care system-allowing individuals who are unable to leave home without great difficulty to receive certain medical or therapeutic care in their own homes. In 2000, Medicare, the federal health care program for elderly and disabled Amen cans, covered home health services for 2.5 million beneficiaries at a cost of $8.7 billion. The approximately 6,900 HHAs that serve Medicare beneficiaries must meet federal requirements, known as...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *MEDICAL SERVICES, *HOUSING(DWELLINGS),...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a separately organized agency within the Department of Energy (DOE), spends more than $5.5 billion a year to maintain the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapon stockpile through an effort known as the Stockpile Stewardship Program. Because the United States is no longer designing and building new nuclear weapons, extending the life of each of the nine weapon types in the current stockpile is a key component of this program. To...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *NUCLEAR WEAPONS, UNITED STATES, REPORTS,...
Report to Congress on the Historical Accounting of Individual Indian Money Accounts., evaluate its proposed methodology, or discuss the report or its proposed methodology with Interior officials. Also, we have not done recent work to evaluate the current state of Interior's lIM records. Nevertheless it is clear that a reconciliation of lIM accounts is a daunting endeavor, both in terms of the magnitude of the project's scope and the obstacles that are likely to be encountered. As to the scope,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *PLANNING PROGRAMMING BUDGETING, ACCOUNTING,...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is on the threshold of several major investments in acquisition programs that are likely to dominate budget and doctrinal debates well into the next decade. Over the next 5 years alone, DoD's overall investments are expected to average $150 billion a year as DoD works to keep legacy systems as well as transform national defense capabilities for the future. To meet this challenge, it is essential that sound foundations for investments in systems be laid now so...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Schinasi, Katherine V, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC ACQUISITION AND...
In the event of mobilization for a national emergency, the strength of the military forces would need to be quickly increased. While the National Guard, the Reserve, and other sources of pretrained personnel would provide a significant portion of this increase, the services would also need to obtain many untrained individuals who, after initial training, could be assigned as replacements and fillers to existing or newly forming units. To obtain such untrained personnel, the Department of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Opportunities exist for the Navy to better manage labor resources at the naval supply centers. The Navy needs to develop and implement effective work measurement and management information systems to help management identify ways to increase efficiency and to reduce costs. The Department of Defense agreed with GAO's recommendations on this matter and stated that the Navy had initiated a major project to improve operations and reduce costs at the supply centers. GAO recommendations include:...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
We have been tracking the Bureau's progress in designing and implementing the 2000 Census throughout this past decade. A consistent theme of our work has been that despite the Bureau's unprecedented efforts to achieve maximum accuracy in the most cost-effective way possible, formidable challenges surround such key census-taking operations as building a complete and accurate address list, securing an acceptable level of public participation, hiring a sufficient number of temporary workers, and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIV, *CENSUS, COST...
We are pleased to be here today to discuss the Department of Defense's (DOD) logistics reengineering initiatives and the actions we believe are needed to enhance the success of these initiatives. Logistics is an important and expensive function. The Department is using about $84 billion of its $280-billion budget this year for logistics support activities. Despite this expenditure, failing equipment and parts shortages continue to be a problem. At the same time, the Department would like to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Warren, David, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND...
Inventory management comprises several major functions, including determining what is needed; buying needed items; and storing, maintaining, distributing, and disposing of these items. The military services and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) use automated inventory management models that identify the need to place orders when the total inventory falls below a predetermined level. The models also periodically consider whether orders exceed requirements and are candidates for cancellation....
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
As you requested, we have reviewed the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance reports and fiscal year 2001 performance plans required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). In essence, under GPRA annual performance plans are to establish performance goals and measures covering a given fiscal year and provide the direct linkage between an agency's longer-term goals and day-to-day activities. Annual performance reports are to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
This report responds to your request for a nontechnical primer on the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for individuals, which is intended to help ensure that high-income individuals do not avoid significant tax liability. In general, AMT is a separate tax system that parallels the regular individual income tax system. Under this dual system of taxation, taxpayers are required to first compute their tax liability under regular income tax rules and then, if their income or tax payments do not meet...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIV, *TAXES, IMPACT,...
One of the pressing issues the Department of Defense (DOD) faces is its outsized and decaying infrastructure, and this problem is prominent in the family housing program. By DOD's estimates, about two-thirds of military housing is inadequate and would require $16 billion and almost 30 years to renovate or replace using traditional military construction. Efforts to use private contractors to build and operate housing are off to a slow start and may require long-term commitments (50 years or...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY PERSONNEL, *MILITARY REQUIREMENTS,...
You asked us to assess whether the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has adequate mechanisms in place to ensure that past lessons learned from mission failures are being applied. As part of your request, you asked that we provide the results of our survey regarding the collection and sharing of lessons learned by NASA program and project managers. This letter provides the results. We plan to issue a more detailed report on the effectiveness of NASA's lessons learned process...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rohrabacher, Dana, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *LESSONS LEARNED,...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) routinely acquires new information systems and enhancements to manage and support its various programs and operations. GAO has designated HUD's major program areas as high risk, in part because the department's information and financial management systems were poorly integrated, ineffective, and generally unreliable. HUD has been endeavoring to improve its systems to better support its missions and management reforms. Because of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *COMPUTER PROGRAMS, *RISK, *INFORMATION...
In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the airline industry has estimated significant losses resulting from the temporary shutdown of the nation s airspace and the severe drop in passenger traffic since the attacks. In response, on September 22, 2001, the President signed the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, 2 which provides $5 billion in emergency assistance to compensate the nation s air carriers for these losses.
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, EMERGENCIES, AIRCRAFT...
