The GAO report was expected to be good news for Redstone.
followed strict criteria when they evaluated and selected Huntsville. I agree that Huntsville was the right pick for the job.The GAO recommendation said changes should be made for “future strategic basing decisions” to be more consistent with the GAO’s best practices. The GAO noted that the Air Force neither agreed nor disagreed with that recommendation.
“GAO found that the Air Force’s revised process fully or substantially met 7 of 21 Analysis of Alternatives best practices it assessed,” a GAO summary of its findings said. “These best practices are grouped into four characteristics of a high-quality AOA process. GAO found that the revised process did not fully or substantially meet 3 of 4 characteristics.”
In a press release Thursday, members of Colorado’s congressional delegation continued to protest the decision of removing Space Command from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.