The Navy Is Not Adequately Protecting the Government's Investment in Materials Furnished to Contractors for Ship Construction and Repair.
Abstract
The Navy needs to make improvements in its management of GFM to ensure the Government's interest is adequately protected. The Navy has no central point of control or accountability for GFM. Instead, man commands are involved in its management, and their efforts are not coordinated to prevent duplication or to ensure consistency. These problems are compounded by the lack of inventory manager visibility over GFM in the possession of SUPSHIPS and contractors. Moreover, no activity actively monitors the performance of the various SUPSHIPs to ensure to ensure consistent interpretation and application of GFM regulations and directives. Although the SUPSHIPs' basic regulations and directives for the GFM management are the same they did not interpret and apply these in the same manner. As a result, their effectiveness in managing GFM varied widely. Seattle was managing GFM in a more effective manner by enforcing DAR's requirements on contractors and by using an in-house computerized monitoring system for management prior to delivery to the contractor. The failure of the three other SUPSHIPs to fully enforce DAR led to inaccuracies and inefficiencies in contractors' GFM control systems, caused excess items to be held for extended periods of time, and inadequately protected the Government's interest.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 09, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA102656
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office