Joint strike fighter
Subtitle: DOD plans to enter production before testing demonstrates acceptable performance : report to congressional committees
By: United States Government Accountability Office.
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense.; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services.; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of Defense.
Publisher: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: United States. -- Dept. of Defense -- Procurement.; Joint strike fighter.; Fighter planes -- Flight testing.
Other titles: Joint strike fighter :; DOD plans to enter production before testing demonstrates acceptable performance; Department of Defense plans to enter production before testing demonstrates acceptable performance; Joint strike fighter acquisition
Description: This is the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) second report reviewing the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. GAO also assessed the program's acquisition approach---in terms of capturing knowledge for key investment decisions---and identified an alternative to improve outcomes. JSF, the Department of Defense's (DOD) most expensive aircraft program, represents 90 percent of the remaining planned investment for recapitalizing DOD's aging tactical aircraft fleet. GAO recommends Congress should consider delaying authorizations and appropriations for JSF procurement until a new business case is developed and flight testing demonstrates the design and integrated mission systems work. GAO included this matter for consideration because DOD did not plan to make changes as a result of recommendations. GAO recommends that DOD delay investing in production until flight testing shows that the JSF performs as expected, and that the program develop a plan, consistent with DOD's preferred policy, to adopt an evolutionary approach that limits new content for each increment to proven technologies and design. DOD partially concurred, but believes that its current practices achieve the GAO recommendations' objectives.
Notes: Cover title.

"March 2006."

"[report to] the Honorable John Warner, Chairman, the Honorable Carl Levin, Ranking Minority, Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate; the Honorable Ted Stevens, Chairman, the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate; the Honorable Duncan L. Hunter, Chairman, the Honorable Ike Skelton, Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives; the Honorable C.W. Bill Young, Chairman, the Honorable John P. Murtha, Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives"--P. 28.

Includes "Highlights of GAO-06-356" inside front cover.

"GAO-06-356."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via Internet from the GAO web site (http://www.gao.gov/). Address as of 5/02/06: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-356; current access available via PURL.

Photocopy. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2006. 28 cm.