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<abstract>GAO reviewed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration&apos;s (NASA)
and Department of Defense&apos;s (DOD) cooperation to develop a national
perspective on aerospace test facilities, focusing on: (1) the extent to
which NASA/DOD working groups on major test facilities have been
operating on a regular basis; (2) NASA&apos;s and DOD&apos;s actions in response
to a future need to test an engine for new Air Force rockets; (3)
whether NASA and DOD prepared a congressionally required joint plan on
rocket propulsion test facilities; and (4) whether NASA and DOD are
implementing a DOD assessment team&apos;s recommendation in March 1997 to
jointly manage with NASA certain aeronautical test facilities.&lt;p/&gt;GAO noted that: (1) the promise of closer NASA/DOD cooperation and the
development of a national perspective on aerospace test facilities
remains largely unfulfilled because NASA and DOD: (a) have not yet
convened most test facility alliances; (b) compete with each other to
test engines for new rockets; and (c) did not prepare a congressionally
required joint plan on rocket propulsion test facilities; (2) although
NASA and DOD have agreed to go beyond cooperative alliances in
aeronautics and jointly manage their aeronautical test facilities, they
have not yet reached agreement on key aspects of management
organization; (3) NASA and DOD took 20 months (May 16 through December
1997) to negotiate and sign agreements formally establishing the six
test facility-related cooperative alliances; (4) despite the formation
of the rocket propulsion alliance, NASA and DOD compete against each
other to test engines for new rocket programs; (5) a principal arena of
competition is the next phase of the Air Force&apos;s Evolved Expendable
Launch Vehicle program; (6) DOD did not prepare a legislatively mandated
joint plan with NASA to coordinate rocket propulsion test facilities;
(7) in a letter to congressional committee chairs and other members, DOD
said that the basis of such a plan are: (a) on-going activities such as
Vision 21; (b) the May 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review of defense
strategy; and (c) activities of the rocket propulsion alliance; (8)
however, these efforts are unlikely to form the basis of a joint plan
because NASA is not participating in either Vision 21 or the Defense
Review; (9) in October 1997, NASA and Air Force officials took a step
toward creating a national perspective on test facilities in the
aeronautics area; (10) specifically, they reached an understanding on
the scope and approach for joint strategic management of their
aeronautical test facilities, including a new management organization;
(11) however, they have not yet resolved basic issues, such as the
organization&apos;s structure and authority; and (12) ultimately, if joint
strategic management of aeronautics test facilities is successfully
established, its adaption to other types of test facilities could be
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