Depot Maintenance: Executed Workload and Maintenance Operations at DOD Depots

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DOD) uses its maintenance capabilities to maintain, overhaul, and repair its military weapon systems (such as aircraft and ships) and equipment (such as generators and radars).1 To maintain these systems and equipment in order to meet national security goals, DOD uses a combination of military depotspublic-sector facilities that are government-owned and government-operatedand private-sector contractors.2 Depots have a key role in sustaining complex weapon systems and equipment both in peacetime and during mobilization, contingency, or other emergency. The military services operate 17 primary government-owned facilitiessuch as Anniston Army Depot at Anniston, Alabama; Air Forces Air Logistic Complex at Ogden, Utah; Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, Virginia; and Marine Depot Maintenance Command at Albany, Georgiathat perform depot-level maintenance on a wide range of vehicles and other military assets, including helicopters, combat vehicles, ships, aircraft, engines, and software.3

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 03, 2017
Accession Number
AD1026017

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Light Armored Vehicles
  • Logistics
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Powered Ships
  • Small Arms
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.