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House panel presses Corps on project delays, cost estimating and contracting reforms
Summary
Members of the House Appropriations subcommittee questioned U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leaders about repeated schedule slips, rising costs and plans to improve engineering, program management and contracting.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee opened a hearing on the Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works program with bipartisan concern about recurring project delays and cost growth and with a request that the Corps provide follow-up materials within four weeks.
The hearing’s central question was how the Corps will reduce optimism bias in cost and schedule estimates and improve procurement and project management. Lieutenant General Butch Graham, Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told the panel the Corps is focused on three priorities: “get the engineering right, get the project management right, and get the business…
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