DOD's Fiscal Year 1986 Ammunition Procurement and Production Base Programs

Abstract

As requested, we reviewed the military services' justification for their fiscal year 1986 appropriation requests for ammunition and the Army's request for ammunition production base funding. This letter provides an overview of our findings, and the appendixes provide details. The President's fiscal year 1986 Defense budget request includes about S5.3 billion for ammunition items and $368.4 million for enhancing ammunition production facilities. In our opinion, about $1.1 billion of the ammunition requests and $129.2 million of the Army's production base request should not be provided. In addition, two Army and three Navy items have problems which are not severe enough to conclude funds for these items could be deleted, but which we believe need to be brought to the Committees' attention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 16, 1985
Accession Number
AD1060759

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Ammunition
  • Arming Devices
  • Army Procurement
  • Chemical Projectiles
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Contracts
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Guided Projectiles
  • High Explosive Ammunition
  • High Explosives
  • Munitions Testing
  • Practice Bombs
  • Projectiles
  • Propelling Charges
  • Scatterable Mines
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Economics
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting