Inventory Management: Handheld Missiles Are Vulnerable to Theft and Undetected Losses
NSIAD-94-100
Published: Sep 16, 1994. Publicly Released: Oct 25, 1994.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO inventoried the military services' handheld missiles and compared its count with the services' inventory records.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to authorize Category I missile oversight organizations to enforce missile reporting requirements and to conduct unscheduled independent inventories at depot, post, base, or unit level missile storage sites. |
Closed – Implemented
A worldwide inventory was completed in early 1995.
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| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to conduct independent worldwide inventories of Category I missiles by serial number to establish an accurate baseline of existing missiles. |
Closed – Implemented
A worldwide inventory was completed in early 1995.
|
| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to establish procedures to track, document, and report additions to and deletions from these new inventory baselines. |
Closed – Implemented
The DOD process has changed to reflect these changes.
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| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to establish procedures to include a random sampling of missile containers during inventories to ensure that they contain missiles. |
Closed – Implemented
The DOD process has changed to reflect these changes.
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| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to reemphasize employee security procedures so that they are consistently and uniformly applied to all individuals entering and leaving missile storage areas. |
Closed – Implemented
All services have agreed to inspect all trucks leaving munitions areas.
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| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to reexamine the current security policy that permits less than full inspection of vehicles, such as trash trucks, that could easily conceal missiles when leaving ammunition storage areas. |
Closed – Implemented
All services have agreed to inspect all trucks leaving munitions areas.
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Facility securityFederal property managementInternal controlsInventory control systemsLarcenyTerroristsMilitary inventoriesMissilesProperty lossesRecords managementReporting requirements