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 1998-11-03 monographic deposited born digital 28 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-99-11 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11 P0b002ee18039a394 f:ns99011 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11 NSIAD-99-11 Army procurement Eligibility criteria Military appropriations Military budgets Concurrency Reporting requirements Weapons systems Army Warfighting Rapid Acquisition Program Army Land Warrior System Letter Report NSIAD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's implementation of the Warfighting Rapid Acquisition Program (WRAP), focusing on the current status of the program.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the Army's criteria for selecting WRAP candidates are open-ended and allow room for different interpretations; (2) as a result, although the Army initially justified WRAP funding on the basis of the need to urgently field technologies associated with the first digitized division, not all WRAP initiatives support the first digitized division; (3) furthermore, some initiatives do not meet all the Army's criteria for WRAP funding; (4) the Army is reducing the testing of new technologies through large-scale warfighting experiments; (5) as a result, the Army may need to change the criteria used to evaluate and rate WRAP candidates; (6) this may affect the quality of future candidates; (7) to date, the Army has not been able to finalize its selection of WRAP candidates early enough to ensure timely approval by Congress; (8) as a result, the final approval of funds and the subsequent start-up of initiatives have been delayed; (9) delays also occurred because the Army did not obtain the timely release of WRAP funds from the Department of Defense (DOD) and because DOD reduced funding for WRAP; (10) in spite of these delays, GAO believes that WRAP funds may still help speed the fielding of some new technologies, though not as much as originally estimated; (11) after initial congressional approval of the first 11 WRAP initiatives, the Army made substantial changes to some of them; (12) these changes affected program implementation; and (13) Congress was not informed of the changes because current reporting requirements do not require the Army to report such changes. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11.pdf GAO/NSIAD-99-11 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-99-11 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-99-11; Army Modernization: The Warfighting Rapid Acquisition Program Needs More Specific Guidance; Army procurement Eligibility criteria Military appropriations Military budgets Concurrency Reporting requirements Weapons systems Army Warfighting Rapid Acquisition Program Army Land Warrior System