Air Traffic Control: Improved Cost Information Needed to Make Billion Dollar Modernization Investment Decisions

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air traffic control facilities
  • Capital investments
  • Cost estimating
  • Cost accounting
  • Project management
  • Programming (Planning)
  • Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACEIT)
  • Budget controls
  • Cost controls
  • Cost projections
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO/AIMD-97-020
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1402965
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Abstract:
  This Government Accounting Office report addresses the reliability of the cost information critical to capital investment decision-making on air traffic control projects. Specifically, the GAO evaluated the Federal Aviation Administration's processes for estimating what projects will cost and the related accounting for actual project costs. The GAO concluded that multimillion dollar, and even billion-dollar, investment decisions on air traffic control modernization projects are being made without reliable information on the projects' estimated and actual costs. FAA does not have well-defined, structured estimating processes that are rigorously followed, and does not disclose the estimates' inherent uncertainty. Without better estimates of cost, FAA's new investment analysis and decision-making processes are unlikely to be effective.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12537/dot_12537_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 410.86 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9634f948fd2a42f51629fd4cfc4b7a68a48db82de6ae733988ddd36efa6097b82b2bcc731104b0a0c1fed111e8a9b51b4aa93b4c02c56304038efcc5de1652c8