United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-09-06 monographic deposited born digital 22 p. GA 1.13:RCED-00-110R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R P0b002ee18038dbd6 f:rc00110r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R RCED-00-110R Communication satellites Air traffic control systems Contract costs Computer services contracts Comparative analysis Cost control FAA Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System Correspondence RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) report to Congress recommending that it award a contract to an alternate contractor for the development of its Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System, focusing on whether the findings were properly supported. FAA's report compared the alternate contractor's costs to the costs of two other commercial telecommunications providers.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) given FAA's assumptions and the circumstances of the study, the agency's findings and conclusions were supported by the information available; (2) FAA's analysis were consistently applied to each of the alternatives and performed in accordance with standard economic and engineering methods of calculation; and (3) however, the findings and conclusion of its study could have been strengthened if FAA had held more-in-depth discussions with AT&T and General Communication, Inc., about the assumptions and the adjustments it made to the data the vendors provided, since the results were influenced by these assumptions. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R.pdf GAO/RCED-00-110R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-00-110R Correspondence GAO/RCED-00-110R; Aviation Infrastructure: Feasibility of Using Alternate; Communication satellites Air traffic control systems Contract costs Computer services contracts Comparative analysis Cost control FAA Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System H. Rept. 105-825