That is about 20 percent of the cost of one OASIS unit. cost of $750,000,” according to the report. Meanwhile, the Navy is studying whether redesign costs would be less than buying more spares of OASIS’s shock-vulnerable components, one of which has “an estimated. The shock testing was delayed, the report said, because the program manager was concerned that it might destroy or disable the test OASIS models. The Navy has not funded any new study “to determine a defensible and realistic shock wave requirement,” according to the report. This testing has not been done, although “a contractor’s analysis showed the OASIS would not work after sustaining a shock wave of 65 percent of the shock capability requirement” established in 2001. The report focused on shock testing, which would measure the system’s ability to keep working after it caused a mine explosion and was hit by the resulting shock wave. In addition, the report said, the Navy “did not finish defining the capability requirements” for OASIS, yet “planned to enter the low-rate initial production. That phase is now expected to cost $135.4 million and be finished in late 2013, 11 years after it started.Īccording to the inspector general’s report last week, there have been design changes, corrosion of a key electrode, towing issues and electrical-related problems. The research, development, test and evaluation phase for OASIS was originally estimated to cost $55.1 million and take three years to begin production.
One result of the lack of a DMCA support team for three years was a $10.4 million cost increase by late 2011 and a new DMCA team finding that the schedule and technical areas “were all high risk.” The Defense Management Contract Agency (DMCA), in a bureaucratic mix-up, did not provide the usual contract-monitoring backup to the program manager. Since then, according to the inspector general’s report, it has “experienced a significant schedule delay and cost growth.”Īn inspector general’s report from April found management problems when the OASIS contractor, ITT Exelis, moved in 2008 from New York to Florida. The OASIS program was funded with an initial operating capability set for late 2005. Think of Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz, for instance. The two together are supposed to cause mines at any depth to explode.
The cylinder puts out bubbles that simulate the acoustics of a ship while another of its systems creates magnetic signatures of U.S. OASIS is a 10-foot-long cylinder, roughly 16 inches in diameter, that is towed in the water by a Navy MH-60S helicopter, which is to be carried on the new Littoral Combat Ship. When OASIS was funded in 2002, the Navy described it as a system that would provide a “minesweeping capability to effectively neutralize threat sea mines in operating areas where mine hunting is not possible” because mines are buried or there is clutter on the sea bottom.
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