Missile Defense : Actions Needed To Improve Transparency And Accountability. Report To Congressional Committees

Since 2002, Congress has directed GAO to assess the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) annual fiscal year cost, schedule, testing, and performance progress in developing the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). This year's report specifically assesses MDA's progress in (1) delivering missile defense assets as scheduled (2) improving accountability and transparency over the past year (3) implementing the European Phased Adaptive Approach (4) implementing changes to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program (5) implementing the targets revised acquisition strategy identified in 2009, and (6) testing the BMDS and developing its modeling and simulations to assess performance. To accomplish this, GAO reviewed MDA's progress reports to the Congress, pertinent Department of Defense (DOD) policies and reports including a DOD assessment and plan related to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system.

• | Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Aug 17, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 124 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1974642259
• | ISBN-13: 9781974642250