Excessive Air Force Inventories Result from Duplicative Spare Parts Requirements
Abstract
The Air Force manages, buys, and stocks spare parts at five logistics centers/depots to support Air Force weapons systems. The five logistics centers manage consumable parts valued at over $3 billion. Each depot also operates a maintenance activity to repair weapons systems and their components. This report contains recommendations for eliminating duplicative depot maintenance requirements from spare parts inventories. Programming logic used to compute total Air Force consumable spare parts requirements results in some depot maintenance requirements being counted twice. As of March 31, 1983, the Air Force was investing $119million in unnecessary inventory because of this duplication and about $21.5 million annually in maintaining this inventory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 25, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA147777
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office