Air Force Procurement: More B-1B Spares Should Have Been Bought Directly From Manufacturers

Abstract

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the extent to which the Air Force broke out B-1B bomber spare parts for procurement directly from the manufacturers to avoid costs of overhead and profits incurred on parts bought from prime contractors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 18, 1987
Accession Number
AD1153651

Entities

People

  • Frank C. Conahan

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Grand Forks
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing
  • Procurement
  • Production
  • Replenishment
  • Spare Parts
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Physics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting