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United States. Government Accountability Office, author.

Title Missile defense: addressing cost estimating and reporting shorftalls could improve insight into full costs of programs and flight tests : report to congressional committees.

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Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2022.

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Description	1 online resource (iii, 52 pages) : color illustrations
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	computer c rdamedia
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Note	"February 2022."
	"GAO-22-104344."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Background. -- Program and flight test cost estimates are improving but continue to lack comprehensiveness and accuracy, respectively. -- Inadequacies in reported program and flight test costs impede oversight. -- Total system costs obscure by shifts across and outside of program baselines. -- Conclusions. -- Matters for congressional consideration. -- Matters for congressional consideration. -- Recommendations for executive action. -- Agency comments and our evaluation. -- Appendices.
Summary	Since 2002, MDA received over $174 billion to develop a system-of-systems known as the Missile Defense System to detect, track, and defeat enemy missiles. GAO has long reported on MDA's progress in working to improve the system's costs, schedules, and performance. This report assesses the extent to which MDA's program and flight test cost (1) estimates align with GAO's leading practices for cost estimating and (2) information is transparent and traceable when reported to Congress. Congress should consider reviving MDA's semiannual requirement to report on flight test costs, and consider requiring clarification on MDA's flight test reporting methodology. GAO is making six new recommendations to DOD to help improve the completeness and accuracy of MDA's program and flight test cost estimates and reporting.
Note	Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (GAO, viewed on Dec. 1, 2022).
Subject	United States. Missile Defense Agency -- Rules and practice -- Evaluation.
	United States. Missile Defense Agency
	Ballistic missile defenses -- United States -- Costs.
	Weapons systems -- United States -- Testing -- Costs.
	Défense antimissile -- États-Unis -- Coût.
	Ballistic missile defenses -- Costs
	United States
Gpo Item No.	0546-D (online)
Sudoc No.	GA 1.13:GAO-22-104344