CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE: Improved Risk Assessment and Inventory Management are Needed

Abstract

DOD's assessment process is unreliable for determining the risk to military operations; as a result, in its 2000 report to the Congress, the Department inaccurately reported the risk in most cases as "low. " The report is inaccurate because it includes erroneous inventory data and wartime requirements. More important, the process for determining risk is fundamentally flawed because (1) the Department determines requirements by individual pieces of protective equipment rather than by the number of complete ensembles that can be provided to deploying servicemembers, and (2) the risk-determining process combines individual service requirements and reported inventory data into general categories, masldng specific critical shortages affecting individual service readiness. Had the Department assessed the risk on the basis of the number of complete ensembles it had available, by service, the risk would rise to "high" in all cases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA394481

Entities

People

  • Joel Hefley

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Inventory
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Protective Equipment
  • Risk Analysis
  • Shelf Life
  • United States

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.
  • Systems Analysis and Design