Defense Inventory: Inadequate Compliance With Controls for Excess Firearms and Other Sensitive Items

Abstract

This report responds to your request that we review the Department's management controls for three types of sensitive excess items-firearms, items that are protected for national security reasons such as those with precision guidance technologies, and pharmaceuticals. Specifically, we evaluated compliance with internal control procedures for (1) safeguarding excess firearms, items with national security implications, and pharmaceuticals and (2) recording the removal of such items from inventory records. Controlling these items is particularly important because they include military technologies and capabilities and are vulnerable to theft.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA371512

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Grenade Launchers
  • Inventory
  • Machine Guns
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Task Forces
  • Undersea Warfare
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design