{"id":192659,"date":"2009-03-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/gao-report-savages-future-combat-system\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:00:00","slug":"gao-report-savages-future-combat-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/gao-report-savages-future-combat-system\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO Report Savages Future Combat System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/32779\/draft-gao-report-rips-into-army-weapons-platform\">report is brutal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Advocates of restructuring or cutting back on FCS will find ammunition in the draft report. In it, GAO asserts that FCS is \u201cunlikely to be executed\u201d for the $159 billion the Army says it will cost, a source said, citing the draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">    Moreover, and perhaps more relevant to the current decision-making within the Pentagon, GAO states that the Army has already spent 60 percent of its FCS development funds even though \u201cthe most expensive activities remain to be done before the production decision\u201d in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">    GAO contends that the funding situation will deteriorate for FCS as the program\u2019s costs will likely grow at the same time as competition for federal funds tightens, a source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">    The report also cites what it calls \u201cactual immaturity\u201d in the program, according to sources. Calling the network performance \u201clargely unproven,\u201d GAO says the Army has failed to convincingly demonstrate that FCS designs will meet their requirements, a source told ITA.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am completely not shocked at this.  I worked on the program, and it was over ambitious, and managed under the now discredited <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=lead+system+integrator\">Lead System Integrator<\/a> (LSI) concept, which been universally unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that this whole program has turned into a clusterf^%$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the report is brutal: Advocates of restructuring or cutting back on FCS will find ammunition in the draft report. In it, GAO asserts that FCS is \u201cunlikely to be executed\u201d for the $159 billion the Army says it will cost, a source said, citing the draft. Moreover, and perhaps more relevant to the current &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1008,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}