Excessive Air Force Inventories Result From Duplicative Spare Parts Requirements
NSIAD-85-7
Published: Oct 25, 1984. Publicly Released: Oct 25, 1984.
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Highlights
GAO reviewed the operations of five Air Force logistics centers which support Air Force weapons systems to assess the validity of the factors used to compute maintenance needs and to determine how these needs are included in Air-Force-wide requirements.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of the Air Force | The Secretary of the Air Force should direct the Commander of the Air Force Logistics Command to take the following actions to ensure that inventory investment is limited to the level needed to support mission requirements: (1) correct the logic in the interface of the D033 and D062 systems to prevent the duplication of depot requirements; and (2) reduce the overstated inventories by excluding atypical data which unduly impact order and shipping time quantities from actual time required to allocate assets from one depot account to another, eliminating unwarranted safety levels in estimating depot supply level requirements, and eliminating the practice of using backorders to document rob-back actions. |
Closed – Implemented
The Department of Defense (DOD) position on the first part of the recommendation was nonconcur. DOD plans no action on this portion of the recommendation. GAO is continuing to attempt to bring about implementation. A follow-up letter to the DOD response was sent on June 11, 1985.
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Air Force procurementInventory controlLogisticsMaintenance (upkeep)Spare partsWeapons systemsComputer programmingMilitary forcesInventoriesStocks