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Air Traffic Control: Justifications for Capital Investments Need Strengthening

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 14, 1993
Report No. RCED-93-55
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Summary:

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched a major effort in 1991--now called the Capital Investment Plan--to modernize air traffic control by acquiring new radar, communications, and data processing systems designed to bolster the safety and efficiency of air travel. While acquiring these new systems, FAA has encountered serious problems in cost growth and peformance as well as schedule delays. In an earlier report (GAO/RCED-91-159), GAO found that FAA's failure to prepare mission need statements for any of its major acquisitions had contributed to these acquisition problems. FAA reformed its acquisition process in 1991 by requiring a mission need statement for all new system acquisitions in the Capital Investment Plan. This report discusses whether (1) mission need statements contained evidence to support the need for new investments and (2) the statements relied on analyses of current performance of air traffic control systems.

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