Navy Inventory: Parts Shortages are Impacting Operations and Maintenance Effectiveness
Abstract
In January 2001, we reported on Department of Defense management challenges and noted that the Department has had serious weaknesses in its management of logistics functions and in particular inventory management. We have identified inventory management as a high-risk area since 1990. In 1996 and again in 1998, we reported that despite billions of dollars invested in inventory, the Navy's logistics system often could not provide spare parts when and where needed. For example, in fiscal year 1995 about 12 percent of the aircraft were not mission capable due to supply problems, and mechanics frequently had to remove parts from one aircraft to make repairs on another. Table 1 shows that during the last 11 years, the Navy has never achieved its overall goal to have 73 percent of its aircraft capable of performing at least one of its assigned missions. Further, the rate at which the aircraft could not perform their missions due to supply shortages has increased from 11.9 percent in fiscal year 1995 to 12.9 percent in fiscal year 2000.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- AD1180241
Entities
People
- David R. Warren
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office