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F-22 Aircraft: Issues in Achieving Engineering and Manufacturing Development Goals

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 15, 1999
Report No. NSIAD-99-55
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Summary:

The Air Force estimates that it can complete the F-22 engineering and manufacturing development program within the nearly $19-billion cost cap set by law. During much of 1998, however, the F-22's contractor cost and schedule plans, as defined in 1997, were not fully accomplished. Program costs were over budget and often behind schedule. The Air Force views the potential for further cost growth as a threat to completing the program within the cost limitation. Although the Air Force has devised ways to avoid and reduce costs, GAO questions whether the program, as planned, can be completed within the cost limitation. GAO summarized this report in testimony before Congress; see: Defense Acquisition: Progress of the F-22 and F/A-18E/F Engineering and Manufacturing Development Programs, by Louis J. Rodrigues, Director of Defense Acquisitions Issues, before the Subcommittee on Airland Forces, Senate Committee on Armed Services. GAO/T-NSIAD-99-113, Mar. 17 (20 pages).

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