DOD must do better in tracking true costs of software sustainment, GAO says

FedScoop: Unless the Pentagon develops a strategy for better tracking and recording software sustainment expenditures, the military will lack visibility into how much weapons systems actually cost over the course of their lifetimes, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report.

Around “70 percent of the life-cycle costs of a weapon system are incurred in the system’s operating and support phase,” the GAO notes in the report, and software is often a crucial part of that upkeep.

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