Closing Maintenance Depots: Savings, Workload, and Redistribution Issues.

摘要

This report covers a review of selected issues related to the maintenance depot closures and realignments that resulted from decisions made by the Base Commission on Closure and Realignment. It was found that (1) the Department of Defense (DOD) substantially reduced its savings estimates from closing maintenance depots, but is still overestimating the savings that will probably be achieved; (2) the number of employees involuntarily separated as a result of past closure decisions was minimized because of a comprehensive but costly employee assistance program; and (3) DOD is not using public-public or public-private competitions as a means of allocating public depot workloads. The report includes recommendations that, if implemented, should enable DOD to more cost-effectively redistribute closing depots' woridoads.