A GAO report said the Department of Defense didn’t provide complete information on...
A GAO report said the Department of Defense didn’t provide complete information on DOD’s decision to waive a Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act requirement for the Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System. EPS consists of two payloads hosted on classified satellites,…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
a gateway to connect user terminals and a control and planning segment (CAPS). In June, DOD waived the competitive prototyping requirement for the EPS CAPS, the report said (http://xrl.us/bnmxev). The department didn’t provide complete information “about the potential benefits of competitive prototyping or support for its conclusion that prototyping would result in schedule delays,” the report said. The Air Force’s cost-benefit analysis about the CAPS technical and design risk was incomplete “because neither the waiver nor the business case analysis supporting it provided an estimated dollar value for the expected benefits,” it said. GAO also said DOD’s conclusion that it can’t meet national security objectives without the waiver wasn’t well supported. GAO said it will send the report to DOD, the secretary of the Air Force and the Armed Services and Appropriations committees in the House and Senate.