Review of the Department of the Navy's Proposed Plan to Merge its Electronics Supply Office (ESO), Great Lakes, Illinois, with its Ships Parts Control Center (SPCC), Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Abstract
In a May 10, 1972, memorandum, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations directed the Chief of Naval Material to investigate the possibility of merging Navy inventory control points. On May 10, 1972, the Naval Shore Establishment Realignment Group, an ad hoc group under the direction of the Chief of Naval Operations, requested a consolidation recommendation from the Naval Supply Systems Command. During the next 2 weeks, officials of the Supply Operations and Fleet Support Office, within the Naval Supply Systems Command, considered reducing the number of inventory control points from three to two. We were told that, because of the sensitive nature of this project, no other officials in the Naval Supply Systems Command or the inventory control points were consulted. The requested information was submitted on May 25, 1972, to the Shore Establishment Realignment Group. On the basis of this information and additional information provided by telephone conversations, the Shore Establishment Realignment Group approved a proposal to merge ES0 with SPCC. The proposal was submitted through the Chief of Naval Operations to the Department of Defense (DOD) and was subsequently included in DOD's base closure and merger actions officially announced on April 17, 1973. A Navy official said that the Naval Supply Systems Command did not know about the final decision to merge ES0 and SPCC until DOD's announcement.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 27, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD1119359
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office