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 1995-09-20 monographic deposited born digital 33 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-95-197 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197 P0b002ee18038d3d7 f:ns95197 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197 NSIAD-95-197 Munitions Technology transfer Research and development Explosives Military bases Clearinghouses Waste disposal Interagency relations Environmental monitoring Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (National) Letter Report NSIAD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the extent to which existing or forseeable technologies offer solutions to worldwide landmine and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) problems.<p/>GAO found that: (1) U.S. research and development requirements for UXO detection and clearance technology are broader today than they were during the Cold War; (2) the Department of Defense's (DOD) technological efforts have supported countermine operations, for which the main priority is making paths through minefields during combat; (3) U.S. research and development efforts cover a group of near-term and advanced technologies that could increase detection and clearance functions; (4) the most effective clearance techniques are time-consuming, expensive, and labor intensive; (5) the current technologies do not perform well against newer, more advanced munitions; (6) no governmentwide strategy exists to ensure that the most is gained from the various clearance efforts; (7) the technologies available today are inadequate and unable to keep pace with the number of landmines being emplaced annually; and (8) the barriers to technical solutions include the relative ease with which inexpensive improvements in mine designs have outstripped detection and clearance methods, the unique clearance challenges that Third World countries pose, and the difficulty in controlling the proliferation of antipersonal landmines. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197.pdf GAO/NSIAD-95-197 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-197 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-95-197; Unexploded Ordnance: A Coordinated Approach to Detection and Clearance Is Needed; Munitions Technology transfer Research and development Explosives Military bases Clearinghouses Waste disposal Interagency relations Environmental monitoring Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (National)