Defense Inventory: Trends in Services' Spare Parts Purchased from the Defense Logistics Agency.

摘要

In recent years, the Department of Defense has reported that a shortage of spare parts has caused a decline in the military services readiness, particularly in the area of aviation readiness. In response, the Congress provided at least $1.1 billion in additional funding earmarked to purchase spare parts. However, as of September 2001, the department continued to report a shortage of spare parts. According to the department, shortages are a result of aging systems and high operational tempo, which increase the total number of spare parts required. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) was asked to provide information on the spare parts the military services buy from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), a defense organization that supplies some spare parts to the services. In response, we are issuing this report to present available trend information on the quantities, reported dollar value, and types of spare parts that each military service ordered and reported as shipped from the Defense Logistics Agency over the past 5 years.