DOD Review of Flight Safety Critical Threaded Fasteners and Components
Abstract
This audit was conducted in response to allegations made to the Defense Hotline in October 1999, that the DoD acquisition and quality assurance procedures allowed significant amounts of dimensionally nonconforming flight safety critical threaded fasteners and components into the DoD inventory. Similar allegations were made to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics in April 1998 and October 1999. In response to the allegations, the Under Secretary initiated a in Joint Aerospace Threaded Fasteners/Components Review, of flight safety critical fasteners and components used by the Services. As a result of the review, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics concluded on February 15, 2000, that DoD does not have a flight safety problem from nonconforming fasteners and components. We began our audit in April 2000 after the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics had finished their review and reported their results. This report discusses the adequacy of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics review as it relates to the reliability of flight safety critical threaded fasteners and components in the DoD inventory. As of September 30, 2000, there were about 833 flight safety critical threaded fastener national stock numbers in the DoD inventory. We were unable to readily determine the number of flight safety critical threaded component national stock numbers in the DoD inventory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 25, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA391946
Entities
People
- Galfrid Orr
- Joseph P. Doyle
- Monelle Riviere
- Paul J. Granetto
- Suk Webb
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense