Depot Maintenance: Requirement to Update Maintenance Analyses Should Be Modified
NSIAD-93-163
Published: Jun 22, 1993. Publicly Released: Jun 22, 1993.
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Highlights
GAO reviewed the Air Force's implementation of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) analyses, focusing on: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) and service RCM policies; (2) the extent to which the services updated and applied RCM analyses to aircraft and aircraft engines; and (3) alternative programs the services utilize to ensure that preventative maintenance is performed.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of the Air Force | The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force should revise their regulations to remove the requirement to update RCM analyses on operational systems with both extensive maintenance histories and structured programs to adjust maintenance tasks and intervals. |
Closed – Implemented
Service regulations have been revised in the Air Force. Full-blown reliability-centered maintenance analyses are no longer done on operational systems in the Navy.
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| Department of the Navy | The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force should revise their regulations to remove the requirement to update RCM analyses on operational systems with both extensive maintenance histories and structured programs to adjust maintenance tasks and intervals. |
Closed – Implemented
Service regulations have been revised in the Air Force. The Navy no longer does full-blown reliability centered maintenance analyses for operational systems.
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| Department of the Army | The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force should revise their regulations to remove the requirement to update RCM analyses on operational systems with both extensive maintenance histories and structured programs to adjust maintenance tasks and intervals. |
Closed – Implemented
Service regulations have been revised in the Air Force. The Navy no longer performs full-blown reliability centered maintenance analyses for operational systems.
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| Department of the Navy | The Secretary of the Navy should not expend resources to update RCM analyses on any system with extensive maintenance histories and for which a structured program exists to adjust maintenance task requirements and intervals. |
Closed – Implemented
The Navy did not fund planned reliability centered maintenance analysis for its operational systems.
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Aircraft enginesAircraft maintenanceCost effectiveness analysisInventory controlMaintenance (upkeep)Maintenance costsMaintenance standardsMilitary aircraftMilitary cost controlPolicy evaluation