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Planning for Navy Shore Facilities: Improvements Possible

NSIAD-85-6 Published: Nov 05, 1984. Publicly Released: Nov 05, 1984.
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Highlights

GAO reviewed selected Navy activities' use of the Shore Facilities Planning System (SFPS) to determine whether the activities' use of the system resulted in accurate determinations of facility requirements and optimum use of existing facilities.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should reevaluate DOD criteria for determining the size of family services centers in light of the Navy's plans to construct larger facilities. If DOD criteria are considered reasonable, then the Secretary should direct the Navy to adhere to the criteria or obtain necessary waivers; if not, revise the family services center criteria.
Closed – Not Implemented
Revised DOD Directive 4272.1-M was issued on February 11, 1987; however, it omits criteria on sizing family services centers.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should defer planning, programming, and construction of child care center projects not now in progress until DOD child care center criteria are revised, and projects are evaluated using that criteria.
Closed – Not Implemented
DOD did not concur with this recommendation. It believed ongoing programming, design, and construction work should not be halted because the problems, costs, and loss of morale that would result from further delay exceeded any minor difficulties involved with proceeding with the centers.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, to require activities using the industrial planning system to periodically update SFPS with current industrial planning system data.
Closed – Implemented
In lieu of revising the industrial planning system, the Navy is emphasizing the training of personnel in system use.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commander, NAVFAC, to revise the criteria for sizing aircraft parking aprons to require activities to use the most efficient parking angle when computing requirements.
Closed – Implemented
Revised criteria for sizing aircraft parking aprons was included in revised NAVFAC P-80.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commander, NAVFAC, to improve the accuracy of the data in SFPS by requiring engineering field divisions to review facility planning documents to ensure that information in the documents is based on current base loading or industrial system data.
Closed – Implemented
NAVFACNOTE 11210, dated October 6, 1986, requires that engineering field divisions perform comprehensive reviews of major claimant supported projects.
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