Effectiveness of the Air Force's Internal Controls Over the Development and Acquisition of Maintenance and Diagnostic Systems
Abstract
As part of our DoD-wide Audit of the Development and Acquisition of DoD Maintenance and Diagnostic Systems, we evaluated the effectiveness of the Air Force's principle program for monitoring the development and acquisition of maintenance and diagnostic systems, the Modular Automatic Test Equipment (MATE) Program. This report addresses the results of this part of the audit. The Air Force established the MATE Program in 1976 to help reduce the proliferation of automatic test equipment. This reduction was to be accomplished by limiting the need to develop unique test equipment for Air Force weapon systems by providing a set of standardized procedures, software, and tools for Air Force activities to use in developing automatic test equipment. The MATE Program was determined to be ineffective during the audit and was being replaced by a new program. Our audit objectives were to evaluate the effectiveness of the Air Force's internal controls over the development and acquisition of maintenance and diagnostic systems. Air Force Systems Command's product divisions and Air Force Logistics Command's logistics centers were not complying with Air Force guidance for acquiring standardized automatic test equipment. As a result, there was continued proliferation of equipment and no assurance that the Air Force was acquiring automatic test equipment cost-effectively. Material internal control weaknesses are described in the Finding. Additional details are provided in the Internal Controls section of Part I of this report.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 23, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA378390
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense