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Missile Defense: Next Generation Interceptor Program Should Take Steps to Reduce Risk and Improve Efficiency
GAO-24-106315
Jun 26, 2024
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should task the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment with ensuring the Director, MDA regularly coordinates with the intelligence community, joint staff, and combatant commands throughout NGI development to prioritize and, if necessary, update NGI's threat requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should task the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment with ensuring the Director, MDA promptly reports any changes in the threat that may have implications for NGI's threat requirements to appropriate senior DOD leaders, including those on the Missile Defense Executive Board and the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should task the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment with ensuring the Director, MDA uses models and simulations that fully represent stressing intercept conditions for NGI performance and technology maturation assessments supporting the program's critical design review and key acquisition decisions. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Director, MDA should develop a plan for budgeting for and expediting the development of all models—including models that represent stressing intercept conditions NGI is expected to encounter—and simulations necessary to support the NGI critical design review and ground testing. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Director, MDA should conduct periodic independent organizational assessments of its efforts for implementing a digital engineering environment for the GMD program to support NGI development and incorporate lessons learned into its implementation plans, as needed. (Recommendation 5)
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F-22 Aircraft: Air Force Needs to Better Document Options Before Making Critical Decisions
GAO-24-106639
Jun 18, 2024
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Congress Congress should consider requiring the Air Force to provide specific types of data and analyses to Congress before making determinations to divest tactical aircraft. These data and analyses should include: cost assessments inclusive of all relevant factors, gaps in capacity and capability created by the divested asset, and realistic strategies for mitigating those gaps as well as the cost of these strategies. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Department of the Air Force Before making additional proposals to remove the prohibition on divesting F-22 aircraft, the Secretary of the Air Force should assess and document the cost, schedule, and risks associated with the divestment of these aircraft. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Air Force With regards to upgrading the F-22 Block 20, the Secretary of the Air Force should better assess and document the cost, schedule, and risks associated with upgrading the F-22 Block 20 aircraft before making additional proposals to remove the prohibition to divest them. (Recommendation 2)
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Weapon Systems Annual Assessment: DOD Is Not Yet Well-Positioned to Field Systems with Speed
GAO-24-106831
Jun 17, 2024
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the USD(A&S) to issue policy calling for MTA program acquisition strategies to include how the program plans to implement leading practices for product development to deliver fieldable capability with speed, within 5 years. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the USD(A&S) fully defines goals for DOD's software cadre, to include long-term outcomes and near-term measurable results with time frames. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the USD(A&S) identifies strategies and resources needed to achieve DOD's goals for its software cadre, including assessing the internal and external factors that could affect achievement of DOD's goals for its software cadre and how to mitigate them. (Recommendation 3)
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Navy Frigate: Unstable Design Has Stalled Construction and Compromised Delivery Schedules
GAO-24-106546
May 29, 2024
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the frigate program's functional design review practices and metrics be restructured to measure progress that reflects the quality rather than the quantity of design deliverables received from the shipbuilder. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the restructured functional design review practices and metrics established under recommendation 1 be used to assess whether the functional design is complete prior to beginning construction of the second frigate (FFG 63). (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the detail design for any given grand module of lead and follow-on frigates be completed prior to beginning construction of that grand module, consistent with leading ship design practices. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy, as part of the planned revision of the frigate Test and Evaluation Master Plan, should ensure that the plan incorporates additional land-based testing activities for the propulsion system and machinery centralized control system and schedules those activities on a timeline that realistically accounts for anticipated lead ship delivery delays. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy, prior to acquiring an 11th frigate, should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition review the frigate program's acquisition strategy to identify opportunities to incorporate leading practices for product development and update that strategy, as appropriate. (Recommendation 5)
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