Acquisition of the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System's Radar System Improvement Program

摘要

The Radar System Improvement Program (RSIP) is being developed to provide the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners with new and improved capabilities for the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System's (AWACS) radar. The RSIP is an Air Force program with estimated U.S development and procurement costs of $866.7 million (then-year dollars) for 34 RSIP kits. Kits consist of new computers and panels and modifications to receivers, oscillators, synchronizers, angle controls, antenna control units, and aircraft for the radar interface. Objective. The audit objective was to evaluate the acquisition management of the E-3 RSIP. Specifically, the audit was to determine the adequacy of efforts to develop an economical and efficient radar system and to prepare that system for production and deployment. We also reviewed associated internal controls.