Defense Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist to Improve DOD’s Oversight of Power Source Investments, GAO-11-113, December 30, 2010
“DOD lacks comprehensive, departmentwide data for its total investment in the power sources area [in terms of specific technologies, we focused on batteries, fuel cells, and capacitors. This was based on the predominance of batteries among tactically deployed power sources, the level of investment in fuel cells, and congressional interest in capacitors] and no single DOD office aggregates these data across all investment categories. Further, availability of complete data varies across the three investment categories: S&T, logistics support, and acquisition programs. We determined that DOD invested at least $2.1 billion in power sources from fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2010. While DOD appears to have adequate departmentwide data on S&T efforts, it does not have departmentwide data for all logistics support investments. DOD has limited data on its investments in power sources when they are developed or purchased for acquisition programs. The $2.1 billion amount includes the investments in S&T and logistics support that we were able to identify but not power source investments as part of acquisition programs because of the difficulty in obtaining investment data in that area. In general, a lack of investment information can adversely affect DODs ability to avoid unnecessary duplication; control costs; ensure basic accountability; anticipate future costs and claims on the budget; measure performance; maintain funds control; prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse; and address pressing management issues.”
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