{"id":25322,"date":"2024-03-26T23:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T04:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25322"},"modified":"2024-03-26T23:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T04:55:25","slug":"poor-management-oversight-high-costs-hold-back-us-military-space-programs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25322","title":{"rendered":"Poor Management, Oversight, High Costs Hold Back US Military Space Programs &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US military space programs have suffered for well over a decade from management and oversight problems with continuing difficulties in supervising contractors, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;For more than 10 years, we have identified&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20230310\/why-bloated-us-military-spending-cant-ensure-its-dominance-over-russia-china-1108266963.html\">management and oversight problems<\/a>&nbsp;that hinder DOD [Department of Defense]\u2019s space system acquisition programs,&#8221; the report said on Tuesday. &#8220;Collectively, these challenges and risks have resulted in billions of dollars in cost overruns and years of schedule delays.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Defense Department space system acquisition programs have historically faced challenges relating to management, oversight, culture, and leadership, the GAO acknowledged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;These&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240128\/us-navy-reportedly-failed-to-warn-veterans-of-radiation-exposure--1116441535.html\">problems<\/a>&nbsp;include making overly optimistic cost and schedule estimates; pushing programs forward without sufficient knowledge about technology and design; and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20221105\/supply-chain-problems-to-top-pentagons-talks-with-defense-industry-ceos-1103805132.html\">challenges<\/a>&nbsp;in overseeing and managing contractors,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Defense Department&#8217;s culture has generally been resistant to changes in space acquisition approaches and the Pentagon needs to streamline its review processes and delegate more decision-making authority to lower levels, the GAO advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240327\/poor-management-oversight-high-costs-hold-back-us-military-space-programs---report-1117570594.html\">Sputnikglobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US military space programs have suffered for well over a decade from management and oversight problems with continuing difficulties in supervising contractors, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report. &#8220;For more than 10 years, we have identified&nbsp;management and oversight problems&nbsp;that hinder DOD [Department of Defense]\u2019s space system acquisition programs,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[2310,24908,1156,5841,27427,10442],"class_list":["post-25322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cost","tag-management","tag-military","tag-space","tag-supervision","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25326,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25322\/revisions\/25326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}