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02618 - [A1672681]
Air Force Continues to Repair Parts Wheh Serviceable Parts Are
Available. LCD-77-202; B-133019. J'ine 7, 1977. 22 pp. + 2
appendices (14 pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management: Supply and
Maintenance Operations Reporting Systems (703).
Contact: Claims Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Department of Defense -
Military (except procurement & contracts) (051.); National
Defense: Department of Defense - Procurement & Contracts
(058).
Organi7tticn Comcerned: Department of the Air Force; Department
of Defnse.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services;
Senate C-mmittee on Armed Services; Congress.
Authority: Air Force Logistics C mmand Manual 57-3.
The Air Force unnecessarily spends millions of dollars
to repair parts when more than sufficient quantities of
serviceable parts are available to meet current needs.
Findings/Coniclusions: The Air Force has not and will not make
effective use of available serviceable quantities until
substantial changes are initiated because the mechanized system
does not notify maintenance personnel of the quantitie--
available to preclude repairs; Air Force personnel are not
familiar with the objectives and procedures for using routed
repair replacement ouantity assets; and, although aware that
unneeded repairs ar's occurring, the Air Force has not institutel
management action to make sur that replacement quantities are
used to preclude repairs. Neither material management nor
maintenance activity officials want to take responsibility for
this last action. Recommendations: The Secretary of Defense
should direct the Secretary of the Air Force to initiate
management action to establish procedures and systems that will
periodically identify all assets to be repaired at the depot
maintenaDce level and match these records with the quantity of
serviceable replacement parts that can be usei to preclude
repair; to change regulations to clearly delineate
responsibilities for assuring the use of serviceable replacement
assets to preclude repairs made by maintenance activities and
contractors; and to train material management and maintenance
personnel on the system's use and the concept of utilizing
available serviceable assets rathe- than repairing unserviceable
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