Followup On Use of Numerically Controlled Equipment to Improve Defense Plant Productivity
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DOD) components maintain a large, complex industrial base to meet contingency and war mission needs and provide expansion to meet prolonged wartime mobilization requirements. In peacetime the base is used to maintain, repair, and overhaul weapon systems and produce munitions and other war materials. Costs for fulfilling these requirements are enormous and are rising. Numerically controlled (NC) equipment, as discussed in this and prior reports, offer benefits--if managed properly--in terms of meeting mobilization requirements and achieving efficiencies and economies. This report describes the status of DOD's NC activities and illustrates that a good deal more must be done for DOD to realize the full benefits of NC equipment in its (1) Government-owned, Government-operated facilities and (2) Government-owned, contractor-operated facilities and to indirectly realize benefits from the contractor-owned, contractor-operated plants.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 17, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA077258
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office