Controls Over Excess Defense Articles Provided to Foreign Governments
Abstract
Who Should Read This Report and Why? Individuals responsible for reporting and transferring excess defense articles to foreign governments should read this report because it discusses controls over approving, accounting for, and shipping such articles. Background. From October 2001 through March 2006, DoD reported providing excess defense articles with an acquisition value of $2 billion to 57 foreign governments friendly to the United States. Excess defense articles are DoD-owned items no longer needed and declared excess by the U.S. Armed Forces. The articles may require demilitarization (disassembly or destruction) when no longer needed by foreign governments to prevent transfers of excess defense articles to governments not friendly to the United States. The Army and the Defense Logistics Agency provided approximately 99 percent (2,728,384 of 2,752,057) of the excess defense articles with an acquisition value of $875 million to 37 foreign governments. Within the Army, we reviewed controls at the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command and did not detect control weaknesses. However, we did find weaknesses and focused our review on controls at the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, which provided excess defense articles with an acquisition value of more than $296 million to 19 foreign governments from October 2001 through March 2006. Also, we reviewed transportation offices managed by the Navy, Air Force, and Defense Logistics Agency that helped ship the excess defense articles from the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service offices.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 13, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA499252