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Adjustments Recommended in Fiscal Year 1982 Ammunition Procurement and Modernization Programs

PLRD-81-35 Published: Jun 30, 1981. Publicly Released: Jun 30, 1981.
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GAO reviewed the military services' justifications for their fiscal year 1982 appropriation requests for the procurement of conventional ammunition and the ammunition production base. The review was limited to: (1) evaluating the Army, Navy, and Air Force requests for ammunition end-items costing large dollar amounts and end-items being bought for the first time; and (2) Army projects for establishing, modernizing, and expanding the ammunition production base. GAO also made some followup inquiries to determine the status of the Department of Defense actions to implement recommendations made in a GAO report on the single manager program for conventional ammunition.

Recommendations

Matter for Congressional Consideration

Matter Status Comments
The House Committee on Appropriations should closely monitor the ammunition program for three items until the Army resolves various problems.
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The House Committee on Appropriations should reduce the Navy's fiscal year 1982 ammunition appropriation request by $13.8 million for four items.
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The House Committee on Appropriations should (1) reduce the Air Force's appropriation request by $1.9 million for the .38 caliber PGU 12B rounds to bring the request more in line with the unit cost estimate for procurement of this item from a commercial source; and (2) reduce the Air Force's request by $8.6 million for the RR-170 cartridge because of production backlogs.
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The House Committee on Appropriations should reduce the Army's fiscal year 1982 request for modernizing and expanding the ammunition production base as follows (1) defer the $9.5 million project for the tieline to the horseshoe area at Radford Army Ammunition Plant until a detailed plan using the most cost-effective approach to the steam generating capacity is developed; and (2) defer the $5.8 million project for distributing excess equipment until the full scope of effort is determined and a detailed plan, including firm cost estimates, is developed.
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The House Committee on Appropriations should reduce the Army's conventional ammunition request for eight items by $133.6 million.
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AmmunitionCombat readinessDefense contingency planningDefense cost controlDefense procurementLogisticsMilitary appropriationsMilitary materielNational defense operationsProgram evaluation