Review of Management within the Department of the Air Force of Replacement Equipment

This report discusses our on review of management within that Department of the Air Force of replacement equipment subject to the Air Force Unit Authorization List (UAL) reporting system. This review was made for the purpose of examining into the effectiveness and efficiency of Air Force management of such equipment. Our review disclosed that millions of dollars worth of replacement equipment was needlessly purchased in fiscal year 1960 because the Air Force does not have an effective means of knowing the quantity and location of the equipment it already owns. Our review was limited to about 1 percent of the items and 12 percent of the value of the $2.8 billion inventory reported. In this review we established that about $164 million worth of the items selected for examination had been previously procured but was neither included by using organizations in the inventory reports used in computing the requirements nor otherwise accounted for.