Accession Number:

ADA556391

Title:

Defense Logistics: Improvements Needed to Enhance Oversight of Estimated Long-term Costs for Operating and Supporting Major Weapon Systems

Descriptive Note:

Congressional rept.

Corporate Author:

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Russell, Cary B.
• Gosling, Tom
• Hassinger, Kristine
• Hawthorne, Susannah
• Perdue, Charles
• Prybyla, Janine
• Solis, William M.
• Wilkins-McKee, Erik

Report Date:

2012-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

49.0

Abstract:

Requirements for submitting SARs to Congress, including the timing of these reports and the types of information to be included, are established in statute. Under 10 U.S.C. 2432, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress at the end of each fiscal-year quarter a report on current major defense acquisition programs. The statute also requires that the annual SAR include a full life-cycle cost analysis for each major defense acquisition program and each designated major subprogram included in the report that is in the system development and demonstration stage or has completed that stage. Each SAR for the first quarter of a fiscal year also known as the comprehensive annual SAR shall be designed to provide to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives the information these committees need to perform their oversight functions. The comprehensive annual SAR shall be submitted within 60 days after the date on which the President s Budget is sent to Congress for the following fiscal year. Further, the Secretary of Defense must ensure that this requirement is implemented in a uniform manner, to the extent practicable, throughout DOD. The term full life-cycle cost, with respect to a major weapon system, means all costs of development, procurement, military construction, and operations and support, without regard to funding source or management control. If the major weapon system has an antecedent system, a full life-cycle cost analysis for that system must also be reported. The SAR reporting requirement ceases after 90 percent of the items are delivered or 90 percent of planned expenditures under the program are made.

Descriptors:

• *WEAPON SYSTEMS
• ACQUISITION
• COST ANALYSIS
• DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• DEMONSTRATIONS
• ESTIMATES
• LOGISTICS
• MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL
• REPORTS
• REQUIREMENTS

Subject Categories:

• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE