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The popularity of subprograms has changed through the years, as can be seen in Figure 1. The total number of programs each year did not change much, but declaring subprograms became less common from 1998 to 2009, when a rebound started. The cause of these changes is unclear.
– FIGURE 1. SUBPROGRAMS IN MDAPs 1997 2015
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An Example of Budget and SAR Discrepancy: Gray Eagle Quantity reporting in the SAR is the focus of this report. We begin with a few illustrative examples. The Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle program acquires unmanned aerial systems (UAS). In the Track to Budget section of its 2015 SAR, the program identifes the following LINs within the Aircraft Procurement, Army appropriation: • A00005 (MQ-1 UAS) • A01001 (MQ-1 Payload, which includes funding for other programs) • A01005 (Common Sensor Payload Full Motion Video [CSP FMV], a sub-Line ItemNumber to A01001) Both A01001 and A01005 are listed as shared. The quantities and costs found in these LINs in PB 2017, however, difer from those in Gray Eagle’s 2015 SAR, as shown in Table 1. Note that both sources project the program to fnish in FY 2018.
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Defense ARJ, January 2020, Vol. 27No. 1 : 28-59
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