Analysis_Weapon System Cost Changes

P.33 of the 2025 Weapons System Assessment Report

Problem

Report from the 2025 Weapons System Assessment from the GAO.

Among the 30 MDAPs assessed in both our current and last report, 16 programs reported a cost decrease and 13 reported an increase in the last year (see fig. 9). Of the16 programs that reported a decrease, three were due to reduced quantities. Program officials for the Navy’s FFG 62—the program with the largest cost decrease—attributed the decrease to accounting changes, not savings from efficiencies. Specifically, these officials noted that the cost decrease is due, in part, to the Navy’s revised approach for accounting for inflation. The Army’s CH-47F program—the second largest decrease—is updating its cost estimates as part of a new program baseline.