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GAO-04-305R 1 (2003-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamjx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G ~GAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 December 18, 2003 The Honorable Jerry Lewis Chairman Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Defense Logistics: Preliminary Observations on the Effectiveness of Logistics Activities during Operation Iraqi Freedom Dear Mr. Chairman: Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) is one of the largest logistics supply and support efforts that the U.S. military has ever undertaken. For example, of the $28.1 billion that the Department of Defense (DOD) has obligated for OIF, the services and the Defense Logistics Agency have reported that $14.2 billion is for operating support costs and $4.9 billion is for transportation costs. This operation required the movement of large numbers of personnel and equipment over long distances into a hostile environment involving harsh desert conditions. You asked us to study a number of issues related to logistics support to deployed forces. In April 2003, shortly after the onset of OIF, we began work that focused on DOD's accountability and control over supplies and equipment shipped to that theater of operation. Based on the early results of this work, we subsequently broadened our scope to include other logistical issues, such as the deployment of support units and the transportation of supplies and equipment. At the outset of this assignment, we agreed to keep you periodically informed of the status of our work. On November 6, 2003, we provided your office with a briefing on our preliminary observations of the effectiveness of logistics activities during OIF. As we emphasized at the briefing, these observations are based on the limited work we have done to date. As requested, we are transmitting the briefing (enc. I) in this report. In conducting our preliminary work, we relied on data gathered through our visits and interviews with military logistics personnel deployed to the theater of operations. We visited logistics support activities in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, but we did not visit activities in Iraq. We also met with senior officials at DOD and military service GAO-04-305R Defense Logistics Page 1

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