Recommendations To Improve Defense Reporting on Weapon Systems

Gao ID: MASAD-81-7 March 2, 1981

GAO issued three reports which contained recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on methods to improve the Department of Defense's (DOD) reporting to Congress. The reports addressed: (1) Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR); (2) research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) descriptive summaries; (3) Congressional Data Sheets; (4) other budget justification data; and (5) testimony.

DOD agreed with some of the recommendations and identified improvements which have been made in the reporting system. However, DOD believes that it is fully complying with the desires of Congress and, therefore, does not intend to implement the other recommendations. GAO believes that the recommendations would result in Congress receiving information that would be valuable in carrying out its oversight responsibilities.

Recommendations

Our recommendations from this work are listed below with a Contact for more information. Status will change from "In process" to "Open," "Closed - implemented," or "Closed - not implemented" based on our follow up work.

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