Depot Maintenance: Key Unresolved Issues Affect the Army Depot System's Viability.

摘要

The Army's five maintenance depots produced work valued at $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2002, with the remaining 49 percent of the Army's depot work performed by contractors. GAO was asked to assess (1) the trends in and the reliability of depot workload projections; (2) whether workloads are sufficient for efficient depot operations, initiatives are under way to improve efficiency, and additional workloads are possible; (3) whether the Army has identified depots' core capability and provided workload to support that capability; and (4) whether the Army has a long-range plan for a viable, efficient depot system. GAO makes two recommendations to improve the reliability of workload projections from Army and other service acquisition communities and from inter-service customers. GAO previously reported on the need for improving the process for identifying core capabilities and improving strategic and workforce planning. Without improvements in these areas, the future viability of Army depots is questionable. In commenting on a draft of this report, DOD concurred in part with our recommendations to improve workload projections for Army depots, but stated that needed actions involved more than the Army. GAO revised the two draft report recommendations to address the broader need of improving projections of interservice work for all the services.