Future Years Defense Program: Optimistic Estimates Lead to Billions in
Overprogramming (Testimony, 01/19/95, GAO/T-NSIAD-95-83).

The Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) is a classified database of
current and projected force structure, cost, and personnel levels
approved by the Secretary of Defense. The Defense Department (DOD) makes
projections far enough ahead to enable it to estimate future
implications of current decisions. GAO's review of the 1995-99 FYDP
published in July 1994 revealed a potential imbalance between programs
sought by DOD and available funds of $150 billion or more, although the
President and DOD have agreed to changes that could correct some of the
imbalance. GAO has been reporting on the problem of overprogramming
since the mid-1980s when DOD funding began to decline. GAO's work since
that time has shown that DOD has had an imbalance between programs and
projected funds. This overprogramming has tended to obscure defense
priorities and delay hard decisions and trade-offs that must be made if
available funds and defense programs are to be balanced.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-95-83
     TITLE:  Future Years Defense Program: Optimistic Estimates Lead to 
             Billions in Overprogramming
      DATE:  01/19/95
   SUBJECT:  Defense cost control
             Defense budgets
             Defense economic analysis
             Defense procurement
             Cost overruns
             Future budget projections
             Compliance
             Cost analysis
             Financial management
             Presidential budgets
IDENTIFIER:  DOD Future Years Defense Program
             DOD Defense Management Report Savings Initiative
             CIM
             DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative
             Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile
             Comanche Helicopter
             DDG-51 Destroyer
             V-22 Aircraft
             F-22 Aircraft
             
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