United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1999-12-15 monographic deposited born digital 33 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-00-28 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28 P0b002ee18037c037 f:ns00028 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28 NSIAD-00-28 Defense capabilities Weapons research and development Command and control systems Army procurement Combat readiness Computer software verification and validation Systems compatibility Army Land Warrior System Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment System Army Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below Program Army Enhanced Position Location Reporting System Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System Letter Report NSIAD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the Army's implementation of the Land Warrior system, focusing on: (1) the status of the system; (2) whether the level of monitoring and oversight is sufficient based on projected Land Warrior development costs; (3) how the Army is ensuring that Land Warrior will be able to operate with other digitized battlefield systems; and (4) whether technical and human factor problems still need resolution.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the Land Warrior system will not be fielded by September 2000 because Land Warrior technologies could not be developed in time; (2) the estimated cost of acquiring 34,000 units, including research, development, test, evaluation, and procurement, has increased from $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion; (3) although originally planning to use only mature technologies to permit expeditious fielding, the Army's design incorporated technologies that had to be developed specifically for Land Warrior, the effect of which has been to extend development and delay fielding until fiscal year 2004; (4) oversight of the Land Warrior program is not sufficient based on its projected development costs; (5) despite its claim that the Land Warrior is urgently needed, the Army grouped Land Warrior with less complex and less costly acquisitions, resulting in the program receiving routine Army attention; (6) oversight responsibility remained unchanged despite development problems that threatened to lengthen the acquisition schedule and the inability of system prototypes to pass certification tests; (7) at present, Land Warrior will not operate with a key digitized battlefield system - Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below - the Army's principal digital command and control system at and below brigade level; (8) Army officials obtained a waiver which allowed them to defer developing the necessary software to make Land Warrior able to interoperate with Battle Command Brigade and Below until after the Land Warrior equipment is fielded; (9) to be effective, Land Warrior must be able to transmit data to and receive data from higher command levels, thereby providing the soldier with a relevant commom picture of the battlefield and ensuring an integrated communications link from soldier to higher command; (10) this link as not been established; (11) according to program officials, the waiver was needed because Land Warrior computer architecture is not compatible with Battle Command Brigade and Below software; (12) the Land Warrior program manager contends the most recent program revision will achieve the desired operability, without the need for a waiver, but concedes that considerable hardware and software development will be needed before this can be assured; (13) the Land Warrior Program has not resolved technical and human factor problems that may render the system ineffective; and (14) the Land Warrior system design has not been sufficiently field-tested to ensure that old problems have been resolved and new ones have been avoided. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28.pdf GAO/NSIAD-00-28 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-28 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-00-28; Battlefield Automation: Army's Restructured Land Warrior; Defense capabilities Weapons research and development Command and control systems Army procurement Combat readiness Computer software verification and validation Systems compatibility Army Land Warrior System Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment System Army Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below Program Army Enhanced Position Location Reporting System Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System