Defense Depot Maintenance: Information on Public and Private Sector Workload Allocations
NSIAD-98-41
Published: Jan 20, 1998. Publicly Released: Jan 20, 1998.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) guidelines and procedures for identifying depot maintenance workloads and quantifying the public- and private-sector share of depot maintenance funding, focusing on: (1) public and private workload distributions as reported by the military departments and defense agencies for fiscal years (FY) 1996 through 2002; and (2) the procedures DOD uses to define and quantify depot workload distribution.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | To improve the accuracy of reporting on the amount of funding for depot maintenance in the public and private sectors, the Secretary of Defense should develop a standardized methodology for annually collecting depot maintenance funding data for the public and private sectors. This should include: (1) a specific definition of the types of activities to be reported; (2) the defense components that should be reporting; and (3) specific data collection processes and procedures the military departments are to follow to insure complete, accurate, and consistent reporting of the amount of funding provided for public- and private-sector depot maintenance workloads. |
Closed – Implemented
In a letter to the Director, Defense Management Issues, the Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Logistics) stated that DOD agreed with the recommendation that a standard methodology should be developed for annually collecting depot maintenance funding data for the public and private sectors. Subsequent to DOD's review of the draft report, DOD issued written guidance to the services and defense agencies defining the types of workloads that were to be reported, the defense components that should be reporting, and data collection procedures that were to be followed to facilitate complete, accurate and consistent future reports of public- and private-sector depot maintenance funding. In the final report, GAO acknowledged that DOD issued written instructions that established a methodology and procedures for annually collecting public- and private-sector depot maintenance funding information and that the guidelines should provide more accurate and consistent reporting.
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