Closing Maintenance Depots: Savings, Workload, and Redistribution Issues.

Abstract

This report covers a review of selected issues related to the maintenance depot closures and realignments that resulted from decisions made by the Base Commission on Closure and Realignment. It was found that (1) the Department of Defense (DOD) substantially reduced its savings estimates from closing maintenance depots, but is still overestimating the savings that will probably be achieved; (2) the number of employees involuntarily separated as a result of past closure decisions was minimized because of a comprehensive but costly employee assistance program; and (3) DOD is not using public-public or public-private competitions as a means of allocating public depot workloads. The report includes recommendations that, if implemented, should enable DOD to more cost-effectively redistribute closing depots' woridoads.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA305412

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Employment
  • Financial Management
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Industrial Equipment
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Second World War
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis