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Asif Khan, the director of financial management and assurance at GAO, and Mike Sullivan, the director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues, joined Pentagon Solutions with Francis Rose to discuss two recent GAO report.
Designing requirements for a big procurement at DoD involves three main elements: cost, schedule, and performance objectives. GAO\'s Mike Sullivan told Federal News Radio that DoD continues to struggle in those areas.
The Pentagon is under fire from investigators who are \"concerned\" about a weapons program that\'s over budget and past its deadline.
Nearly one-third of weapons systems the Defense Department has bought since 1997 are overbudget, and some of them by as much as 50 percent, GAO found.
The U.S. Army is taking a new approach when it comes to getting troops ready to fight in the 21st century. A recent GAO report says that the Army needs to seize the opportunity of integrating acquisition reforms, as well as keeping technology current.