GAO reviewed the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program
to determine whether: (1) planned testing would demonstrate
operational effectiveness before a significant number of units are
produced for deployment; and (2) missile target resources are
adequate to support testing plans. GAO noted that: (1) the current
THAAD program review and evaluation provides the Department of
Defense (DOD) with the opportunity to: (a) reduce risk and minimize
the number of initial quantities of unproven system hardware by
reexamining the schedule for operational testing and production;
and (b) ensure that realistic targets will be used for testing; (2)
the last approved THAAD acquisition plan calls for significant
production of deployment hardware almost 2 years before beginning
independent operational testing to assess the system's operational
effectiveness; (3) the Army maintains that it needs to buy a number
of THAAD systems during low-rate initial production to "ramp-up" to
the full rate of production; (4) delaying production until after
completing sufficient testing that provides assurance that key
performance requirements can be met reduces the risk of buying
unproven systems and facilitates production of proven systems at
more efficient rates; (5) a suitable target for testing the THAAD
system against longer range missiles does not exist, and funds have
not been requested for target development and production; and (6)
without a longer range test target to represent the more
formidable, higher velocity missiles that THAAD could face, the
system's operational effectiveness will remain in doubt and DOD
will not have reasonable assurance that it could rely on THAAD in
an actual conflict.
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