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Defense Industrial Base: DOD's Manufacturing Technology Program Needs Systematic Evaluation

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 12, 1992
Report No. NSIAD-92-74
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Summary:

To improve the productivity and responsiveness of the defense industrial base, Congress has appropriated about $2 billion since 1980 to the Defense Department's (DOD) Manufacturing Technology Program. Yet DOD lacks reasonable assurances that the program, which provides research and development seed money to help develop advanced manufacturing processes and equipment, is being effectively implemented. Long-standing problems with the program's central management information system have gone uncorrected. The services' annual reports describe individual projects but do not address the extent to which program goals, priorities, and planned approaches are being carried out; cost savings or financial benefits attributed to specific projects are unreliable. DOD has not developed a way to assess the program's impact. While DOD is required to develop a Manufacturing Technology Plan, so far it has not established guidance that will enable it to measure and evaluate program effectiveness.

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