Protecting Stored Critical Parts from Corrosion and Heat Damage

摘要

The GAO has identified corrosion as the single largest controllable cost in the weapons system life cycle with more than $20B spent annually to fight the effects of. * In 2003, the GAO report on Corrosion in the DoD (GAO-03- 753) estimated that the Army's 2,770 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft require $4B in corrosion repair annually (this translates to $1.4MM per aircraft per year in corrosion-related repair costs) 'Provide shelters and humidity-controlled protection for equipment stored outside. A previous research task showed reduction in corrosion by a factor of 65 from protected storage over uncovered storage.' DoD Report to Congress on Long-term Strategy to Reduce Corrosion and the Effects of Corrosion, Table III-2 'Storage in controlled temperature/humidity buildings is of course, ideal.'.