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Future Years Defense Program: DOD's 1998 Plan Has Substantial Risk in Execution

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Oct. 23, 1997
Report No. NSIAD-98-26
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Summary:

Since its bottom-up review in 1993, the Pentagon has repeatedly indicated that it must reduce infrastructure to help pay for weapon systems modernization. However, in its Future Years Defense Programs (FYDP) for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, the Defense Department (DOD) continued to allocate about the same percentage of its budget for infrastructure as it did at the time of the bottom-up review. In addition, GAO found that planned weapon systems increases had repeatedly been shifted further into the future with each succeeding FYDP. This report compares DOD's fiscal year 1998 FYDP with the fiscal year 1997 FYDP. GAO discusses (1) how major programs were adjusted from the fiscal year 1997 FYDP to the 1998 FYDP and (2) how these adjustments may affect programs in the future. GAO also identifies proposed Quadrennial Defense Review initiatives that could affect future FYDPs.

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