Results of GAO's Review of DOD's Fiscal Year 1985 Ammunition Procurement and Production Base Programs

Abstract

The President's fiscal year 1985 Defense budget request included $4.9 billion for ammunition items and $302.2. million for enhancing ammunition production facilities. The Government Accounting Office reviewed the military service's requests for funds to purchase conventional ammunition and to modernize ammunition production facilities. This report contains the results of GAO's evaluation of the fiscal year 1985 programs. Most ammunition items and production base projects were adequately justified. However, $627.6 million of the services' ammunition requests and $97 million of the Army's production base request were questionable.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 23, 1984
Accession Number
ADA147351

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Booster Rocket Engines
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Guided Bombs
  • Guided Projectiles
  • High Explosive Ammunition
  • High Explosives
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Munitions Testing
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Projectiles
  • Propelling Charges
  • Scatterable Mines
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting