
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week said the Navy told it the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) is the biggest program risk to the future USS Bougainville (LHA-8) amphibious assault ship program. LHA-8 will have “significant” design changes from previous ships in the class, but its use of the EASR system is a particular focus of the GAO’s annual Defense Acquisition Annual Assessment, published June 3. GAO said while the LHA-8 program office did not identify any critical technologies with…