Brilliant Pebbles Program.

We are providing this final memorandum report for your information and use. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization SDIO began the Brilliant Pebbles acquisition strategy in June 1990. Because of continuing congressional development and funding constraints, the SDIO restructured the Brilliant Pebbles Program from a pre-engineering and manufacturing development program to a technology demonstration program in January 1993. With this change, the SDIO redesignated the Brilliant Pebbles Program as the Advanced Interceptor Technology Program hereafter referred to as the Program and transferred management responsibility to the Air Force in June 1993. Research, development, and test and evaluation costs for Brilliant Pebbles totaled nearly 1.1 billion from October 1989 through November 1993. The audit objective was to evaluate the Brilliant Pebbles Programs management to determine whether the Program was being efficiently and cost-effectively developed. We followed our critical program management elements approach for the audit. The objectives and scope of the audit were tailored to the Programs status as a technology demonstration program. We reviewed program requirements reliability, availability, and maintainability predictions system integration planning efforts definition of system interface requirements test planning and preparation schedule realism cost estimating and analysis contracting engineering and logistics planning and internal controls related to these objectives. At the completion of the audit survey, we deemed that no additional audit work was necessary based on the results of audit and BMDOs decision to terminate the Program. Enclosure 1 discusses the detailed results of our audit.