Skip to main content

Navy Inventory: Better Controls Needed Over Planned Program Requirements

NSIAD-93-151 Published: Jul 01, 1993. Publicly Released: Jul 01, 1993.
Jump To:
Skip to Highlights

Highlights

GAO reviewed the Navy's management of planned program requirements for ship and submarine parts, focusing on the Navy's program monitoring and internal controls for these requirements.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should identify and implement the internal controls and monitoring efforts needed to ensure that duplicate, unauthorized, and inappropriate planned program requirements are not entered or maintained in the Ships Parts Control Center's file.
Closed – Implemented
The Navy has reviewed planned program requirements to ensure that duplicate, unauthorized, and inappropriate requirements are not included. The Navy is developing a process to perform future reviews. A system to match customer requisitions to planned program requirements has been implemented. An initial review deleted $32 million in duplicate planned program requirements.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should identify and implement the internal controls and monitoring efforts needed to ensure that planned program requirements do not unnecessarily protect inventories from routine requisitions.
Closed – Implemented
The Navy developed procedures and controls to ensure that planned program requirements are not unnecessarily protecting inventory from requisitions. The initial review corrected 1,150 planned program requirements valued at $48 million.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should identify and implement the internal controls and monitoring efforts needed to ensure that all planned program requirements procured by the Ships Parts Control Center are matched with customers' requisitions.
Closed – Implemented
The Navy implemented a process to match requisitions to planned program requirements.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should identify and implement the internal controls and monitoring efforts needed to ensure that all changes made to the Ships Parts Control Center's file as a result of program support data slippage, delays, and deletions are analyzed to determine the impact on procurement and inventory levels.
Closed – Implemented
The Navy was looking into an automatic link to program support data with the parts system. The system was implemented and fully operational on January 11, 1996.
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should prepare procedures for validating planned program requirements prior to taking procurement action.
Closed – Implemented
The Navy began using a checkoff sheet for all procurement requests, including planned program requirements. In May 1993, the Navy began to validate all planned program requirement procurements over $200,000.

Full Report

Office of Public Affairs

Topics

Internal controlsInventory control systemsManagement information systemsMilitary inventoriesMilitary vesselsMonitoringNaval procurementRecords managementSpare partsSurplus federal property