DEPOT MAINTENANCE: Improved Strategic Planning Needed to Ensure That Air Force Depots Can Meet Future Maintenance Requirements

Abstract

The Air Force's maintenance depots provide critical support to ongoing operations around the world. Previously, the Department of Defense's (DOD) increased reliance on the private sector for depot maintenance support, coupled with downsizing, led to a general deterioration in the capabilities, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the military services' depots. In March 2007, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD (AT&L)) directed each service to submit a depot maintenance strategic plan and provided direction for the content of those plans. The Air Force issued two documents in response to this direction-a Strategy and a Master Plan. GAO used qualitative content analyses to determine the extent to which the Air Force's collective plan addresses (1) key elements of a results-oriented management framework and (2) OUSD's (AT&L) direction for the plan's content.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA520663

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Capital Investments
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Requirements
  • Military Equipment
  • National Security
  • Supply Depots
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.