General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony: Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Major Weapon Programs.

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Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Major Weapon Programs.

GAO-03-476 May 15, 2003

The weapons the Department of Defense (DOD) develops have no rival in superiority. How they are developed can be improved, without sacrificing the superiority of the outcome. GAO's reviews over the past 20 years have found consistent problems with weapon investments--cost increases, schedule delays and performance shortfalls--along with underlying causes, such as pressure on managers to promise more than they can deliver. ...