Accession Number:

AD1168953

Title:

Air Force: Assessment of DOD's Report on Plan and Capabilities for Evaluating Heavy Bombers

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Congressional Report]

Corporate Author:

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Conahan, Frank C.
• Kuhta, Steven F.
• Cox, Samuel N.
• Hauser, Daniel J.
• Wood, Gerald W.
• Rodrigues, Louis J.

Report Date:

1994-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

12

Abstract:

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 required, among other things, that the Secretary of Defense 1 develop a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of B-52H and B-1B bombers in conventional missions and 2 report on the Department of Defenses DOD current capability to carry out survivability and operational effectiveness flight testing of these bombers against a broad range of current and future threats. Our office was required by the legislation to provide our views on the plan and the report. This report is our response to that requirement.

Descriptors:

• test and evaluation
• conventional warfare
• national security
• congress
• air defense
• air force
• conventional capabilities
• united states
• house of representatives
• operational effectiveness
• operational readiness
• defense systems
• flight testing
• maintenance equipment
• warfare
• aircrafts
• law

Subject Categories:

• Military Aircraft Operations
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]