Military Readiness: DOD Needs to Better Manage Automatic Test Equipment Modernization

Abstract

The services have billions of dollars worth of outdated and obsolete automatic test equipment (ATE) used to test components on military aircraft or weapon systems. Department of Defense (DOD) policy advocates the development and acquisition of test equipment that can be used on multiple types of weapon systems and aircraft and used interchangeably between the services. At the request of the Subcommittee's Chairman, GAO examined the problems that the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps are facing with this aging equipment and their efforts to comply with DOD policy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
AD1166588

Entities

People

  • Harry Taylor
  • Hugh Brady
  • Ken Knouse
  • Neal P. Curtin
  • Stefano Petrucci
  • William Meredith

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Commonality
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Military Aircraft
  • Spare Parts
  • Standards
  • Test Equipment
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems
  • Websites

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Software Engineering