Issues of Depot Maintenance: Changes for the Future.

Abstract

The major issues surrounding Department of Defense (DoD) changes in depot maintenance are explored. Opening with early uses of contracting maintenance services by the military, we see how they came to be increasingly relied upon during the Berlin Airlift. Next, current topics internal to DoD depot maintenance are reviewed. The issue of excess capacity, Is followed by depot core maintenance, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), and competition. This section concludes with Service concerns. Next addressed are external factors that impact DoD such as the Congress, and the private industrial sector. After reviewing the options available, the paper concludes with recommendations for the Services and the DoD to come to consensus on depot consolidation and with legislative assistance, offer more depot workload to the private sector.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA288594

Entities

People

  • Glen D. Locklear

Organizations

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Force
  • Base Closures
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.