GAO Insists Air Force Still Needs ABMS Plan, Disputes Service’s Latency Claim
April 26, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
The Government Accountability Office pushed back on recent comments from Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, saying its report on the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System was not out of date and the agency did, in fact, have access to classified aspects of the program.
Goldfein told defense reporters on April 22 the GAO’s audit suffered from “some latency,†the agency did not attend the December ABMS experiment, and the audit didn’t reflect some important classified aspects of the program. He also said the Air Force is now moving so fast on acquisition projects that GAO needs new procedures to better keep up, offering to personally “walk†the GAO through the program in the interest of transparency.
https://www.airforcemag.com/gao-insists-air-force-still-needs-abms-plan-disputes-services-latency-claim/
