| Date |
Report No. |
Title |
| Date Aug. 3, 2009 |
Report No. GAO-09-839T |
Title
United States Government Accountability Office GAO
For Release on Delivery Expected at 3:00 p.m. EDT Monday, August 3, 2009 Testimony
Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate FEDERAL CONTRACTING Application of OMB Guidance Can Improve Use of Awa... |
| Date May 29, 2009 |
Report No. GAO-09-630 |
Title
United States Government Accountability Office GAO
May 2009 Report to Congressional Requesters FEDERAL CONTRACTING Guidance on Award Fees Has Led to Better Practices but Is Not Consistently Applied GAO-09-630 May 2009 FEDERAL CONTRACTING Highlights
Highlights of GAO-09-630, a report to Congressional Requesters Accountability Integrity Reliability Guidance on Award Fees Has Led to Better Practices ... |
| Date April 5, 2006 |
Report No. GAO-06-409T |
Title
United States Government Accountability Office GAO
For Release on Delivery Expected at 3:00 p.m. EDT Wednesday April 5, 2006 Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS DOD Wastes Billions of Dollars through Poorly Structured Incentives
Statement of David M. Walker Comptroller General of the United States GAO-... |
| Date Sept. 22, 2005 |
Report No. GAO-05-1044R |
Title
United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 22, 2005 The Honorable Jeff Sessions Chairman, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Committee on Armed Services United States Senate The Honorable Wayne Allard United States Senate Subject: Nuclear Cleanup: Preliminary Results of the Review of the Department of Energy’s Rocky Flats Closure Project For about 40 years, the D... |
| Date Nov. 14, 1990 |
Report No. NSIAD-91-30 |
Title
Rqwr t, t,o the Chairman, Subcommittee (III kgislat,ion and Nation&l Security, ( k)mmi We ()n Government Operations, I Iouso of’ Representatives
e “ll._l. -l”-l__ll-...._.._--_._.~.. ._--. ..- ..__ --. .__..._____. 1 I I No\‘~‘llllwr l!)!H) FORCES NAVY STRATEGIC Trident II (D-5) Missile Contract Incentives IR
142813 1 . ..-.-. ~._ , -~ -I,II”I,,,,,,.,...-,._.-_ I GAO/NSIAI)-91-30 - GAO... |
| Date May 5, 1988 |
Report No. NSIAD-88-147 |
Title
May 1988 SPACESTATION NASA Efforts to Establish a Design-ToLife-Cycle Cost Process . waGAO/NSIAD-8&147 National Security and International Affairs Division B-227537 May 5,1988 The Honorable Robert Roe Chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This report is in response to your request that we review NASA'S implementation of actions outlined i... |
| Date Nov. 3, 1987 |
Report No. NSIAD-88-36BR |
Title
United States General Accounting Office * Briefing Report to the Honorable Carl Levin, U.S. Senate November 1987 INCENTIVE CONTRACTS Examination of FixedPrice Incentive Contracts I AO/NSIAD43836BR OWZS-EO R-229051
November 3, 1987 The Honorable United States Dear Senator Carl Levin Senate Levin: of As you requested, we have examined a number of fixed-price incentive (F'PI) contracts to determine h... |
| Date July 31, 1986 |
Report No. NSIAD-86-45S-15 |
Title
United States General Accounting Office 1305sq GAO
July 31,1986 Report to Congressional Requesters DOD ACQUISITION CaseStudy of the MILSTAR Satellite Communications System II III llIlllIillll II
130589 GAOl/MAD-f3S-4SS-l6 I 036aa3 / /3Os8P Preface The Chairmen of the SenateCommittee on Governmental Affairs and its Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management asked GAO to examine the capabili... |
| Date May 23, 1984 |
Report No. NSIAD-84-62 |
Title
t II I Iia42 t 1 BY Tl--iiiUS GENERALACCOUNTING OFFICE
Report To The Secretary Of Defense Further Improvements Needed In Navy’s Oversight And Management Of Contracting Facilities Construction On Diego Garcia
To support an increase of the government’s presence in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf area, the Department of Defense In 1980 began a program to Increase the number and types of its fac... |
| Date Oct. 18, 1979 |
Report No. PSAD-80-3 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
.,.-~-..,y · ir WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 PROCURCM LNT AND SYSTtMS ACQUISITION DIVISION B-16F450 OCTOBER 18. 1979 The Honorable Harold Brown The Secretary of Defense Attention: Assistant for Audit Recorts Room 3A336 ASD (ComDtroller) Dear Mr. Secretary: Opportunity to Reduce Cost of the Navy's Contract for Patrol Combatant Hydrofoil Missile Ships (PSAD-80-3) S... |
| Date Oct. 15, 1979 |
Report No. HRD-80-3 |
Title
UNKED STATES GENERALACCOUNTINGOFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN REBOCJRC%S DIVISION B-154031 Mr. Jay B. Constantine Chief, Health Professional Subcommittee on Health Committee on Finance United States Senate Dear Mr. Constantine: Subject: i/ Staff ~l~l~llllll ll
i 10855 HEW's Contract With Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound Covering Medical Care Provided to Medicare --Noncompliance With Ben... |
| Date Aug. 22, 1978 |
Report No. PSAD-78-138 |
Title
DOCUMENT RESUN 06932 - rB23674271 r Payment of Air Force Aircraft Mainterance Contracts Violate
Cost-Plus-a-Percentage-of-Cost Prohibition]. ESAD-78-138; B-169217. August 22, 1978. 4 pp. Report to Secretary, Department of efense; by Jercae H. Stolarow, Director, Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div. Issue Area: Federal Procurement of Gccds and Services (1900). Contact: rocurement and Systes Acq... |
| Date June 8, 1977 |
Report No. CED-77-67 |
Title
..a. . QRT TO THE CONGRESS
1) \/,.q A\.\\’ --,*:I ; ‘i’. ‘;[._ ,. tl Y/ _;‘ivj
d( c c il ‘r ” -- BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
LM102749 lllllllllllllllllllllllll~~ Amtrak’s Incentive Contracts With RailroadsConsiderable Cost, Few Benefits
National Railroad Passenger Corporation Since July 1974 Amtrak, under its performance incentive contracts with 10 railroads, ha... |
| Date Jan. 30, 1975 |
Report No. LCD-75-406 |
Title
Department of the Navy LCD-75406 P JAN. 30, I.9 7 5 COMPTROLLER GENERAL
WASHINGTON. OF THE UNITED
D.C. 20542 STATES B-180703 The Honorable United States Dear Senator William Senate Proxmire: Proxmire Your letter of February 19, 1974, asked us to look into the current overhaul of the nuclear submarine U.S.S. “Nautilus. ” In particular , you asked for information on the overhaul ‘s initial cos... |
| Date May 21, 1974 |
Report No. B-178845 |
Title
CW&‘TRQLLER GENERAL
WASHINGTON, OF THE
D.C. 20548 UNITED STATES B-17884 5 , The Honorable Les Aspin ’ House of Representatives /’ % Dear Mr. Aspin: In response to your request of June 5, 1973, and subsequent discussions with your office, we attempted to obtain informat ion r’egarding the *-~~~~~~,~~~~~anid,n.Go6 the Government t+..to. fo.r ~o~rr.e&ons. .o.f .deficie.ncias .di,~.~;.l”as~e... |
| Date March 1, 1974 |
Report No. 093821 |
Title
* UNClA~SIRD U. S, iNERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE STAFF STUDY {DIGN-38 NUICLAR GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE DEPAMR=ENT OF TOE NAVY /4 cD C 0 c MARCH 1974 UNCLE A Ii I~~~ COiNTENTS
Page System Descri.ption Coming Events Cost Contract Data Managtement Reporting System Performance Status of Testing Program Milestones Selected Acquisition Repcrting Ralationship to other systems Matters for Consideration Agency Co... |
| Date May 31, 1973 |
Report No. 093831 |
Title
UNITED STATESGENERALACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, DC 20548 (393%3I Lt General Frederick J Chief of Engzneers Department of the Army Washington, D C 20314 Dear General Clarke Clarke By letter dated June 30, 1972, we advrsed the Secretary of the Army that the General Accounting Office was making a multi-agency survey of the use of value engineering incentive programs for contractors and sub-contract... |
| Date Feb. 8, 1973 |
Report No. B-176984 |
Title
RELEASED
B-176984 Dear Mr. Aspin: Pursuant to your request of September 1, 1972, we have analyzed the c~~~~~~,n.~~~c~o,s~tj~e~s~~~~~ma~,~,~.,,., for, the UTTAS. .h.eli,,cop ter -am. as shown in the June 30, 1972, Se&c&e-d .-Acquisition R--Q~K, “‘(SAR) . l-2
I We are reviewing the UTTAS helicopter for the Congress” as part of We willannual r the cost and~Y~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~-~ aspects our ,,&ct... |
| Date Feb. 1, 1973 |
Report No. 093815 |
Title
U.S. GENEML ACCOUNTINGOFFICE STAFF STUDY P B-l WEAPONSYSTEM 3 DEPARTMENTOF THE AIR FORCE FEBRUARY1973 Contents
Page SUMMARY 1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
System descrlptlon Hmtory of the program Scope 2 7 7 9 10 12 12 15 15 15 20 21 22 22 WEAPON SYSTEM STATUS
B-l avlonlcs status Other avlonlcs effort Cost, fundlng, schedule, and performance experience Cost experience F'undlng experience Schedule experx... |
| Date Feb. 1, 1973 |
Report No. 093808 |
Title
U. S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE STAFF STUDY c VIKING '75 PROJECT , 3 National Aeronautics and Space Admmlstratlon FEBRUARY 197 3 E L CHAPTER 1 IKI!RODWCTIOP? ProJect description and ob$xtive System history Psoject respon&ibility Scope of review PROGRAM STATUS Cost estimte changes Scheduled Milestone changes Performme characteristics NASA data avaW&le oxaprogram status Conclusion ancl recomendat io... |
| Date Aug. 18, 1972 |
Report No. B-169333 |
Title
RELEASED
Y Vocational Training Contracts Awarded To Engineering Drafting School, Inc., Denver, Colorado
8-169333 Bureau of Indian Affairs Department of the lntertor BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES COMPTROLLER GENERAL
WASHINGTON OF
DC THE UNITED STATES 20548 B-169333 Dear Senator Kennedy* This 1s our report on vocational trammg contracts awarded to Engineering Dr aftmg School, Inc ,... |
| Date July 6, 1972 |
Report No. B-159344 |
Title
. u c- . e]NITED ST~TESGENERALACCO
WASHINGTON, t;&
PROCUREMENT ACQUISITION AND SYSTEMS DIVISION D.C. 20548 ‘T 2.3 I\( / Jk 6 1972 B-159344 The Honorable The Secretary Attention: Dear Mr. Secretary: We reviewed selected costs incurred by the McDonnell LAircraft Company, St. Louis, Missouri, under the cost-plus-'ig3' sincentive-fee phase of an Air Force contract for the design, development, and ma... |
| Date May 24, 1972 |
Report No. B-132923 |
Title
. , . UNITEDSTATES GE~ERAI~COUN
WASHINGTON, D.C. 2054 PROCUREMENT ACQlJlSlTlON AND SYSTEMS DIVISION B-132923 The Honorable The Secretary Attention: Dear Mr. of Defense Assistant Secretary (Comptroller) of * Defense llllllIllllllllllllllllllllllll
LM096556 Secretary: We examined progress * payments made by the Department of _-_--. AL the Army to the Be‘n HeIicopter’-‘Company, Fort Worth, Texa... |
| Date June 24, 1971 |
Report No. B-171644 |
Title
~-17x644 Dear Mr. Secretary: We recently completed a revfew of the use of performance and delivery incentives in contracts awarded by the military services. __.-.-_ _-The 27 contracts we selected for review were awarded during fiscal The contractors stood to years 1964-69 and were priced at $1.2 billion. realize additional payments of up to about $4-1 million under 51 incentive provisions which we... |
| Date April 14, 1971 |
Report No. B-133394 |
Title
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LM095585 A~dministration Of Cost-Plusrd-Fee-Type Contract For Aircraft Maintenance Support Services
B133394 Manned Spacecraft Center National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration CIVIL DlViSlON B-133394 Dear Dr. Low: of at The accompanying report presents the results of our review the administration of the cost-plus-award-fee-type contracts with Dynalectron Co... |
| Date March 3, 1971 |
Report No. B-168678 |
Title
. 1 .. 4 COM~=-~R~LLER GENERA:
WASHINGTON. &
D.C. fl-iE UNITED
20348 STATES ~-168678
J/ d p--- MAR 3 'WI
Proxmire: in response to your request of August 13, 1970 (SS), and Dear Senator This is Comprehensive Designers and other job-shop firms furnished temporary employees primarily for an Air Force fixed-price-incentive contract with Fairchild Hiller for modification of 52 C-119 cargo aircraft to g... |
