Department of Defense's Waiver of Competitive Prototyping Requirement for Combat Rescue Helicopter Program
Description:
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "DOD's rationale for waiving WSARA's competitive prototyping requirement for CRH addresses one of the two bases provided in the statute; namely that the cost of producing competitive prototypes exceeds the expected life-cycle benefits (in constant dollars) of producing the prototypes. The CRH program's acquisition strategy, which anticipates integrating an existing, in-production and flight-proven aircraf…
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Date:
March 7, 2013
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.