Internal Controls: Air Force can Improve Controls over Contractor Access to DOD Supply System

Abstract

Each year the Department of Defense (DOD) provides material worth billions of dollars through its supply system to a large number of contractors to produce items, maintain them, or provide various services for the Armed Forces. Because contractors have had widespread access to the DOD supply system in the past, Senator John Glenn, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and Senator Pete Wilson requested that GAO examine DOD and service policies, procedures, and practices for providing and controlling government-furnished material(GFM). In this report, GAO focused on the U.S. Air Force and examined its compliance with requirements to justify and document decisions to provide material to contractors, the adequacy of management controls established to validate and approve contractor GFM requisitions, and the adequacy of government oversight over GFM in the possession of contractors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 1988
Accession Number
AD1151537

Entities

People

  • Frank C. Conahan

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Congress
  • Contract Administration
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • End Items
  • Governments
  • Inventory
  • Management Personnel
  • Operations Management
  • Procurement
  • Production
  • Test Equipment

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.