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LCD-80-106 1 (1980-09-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabaze0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J13 7J3 GAO United States General Accounting Office Logistics and Washington, DC 20548 Communications Division SEPTEMBER 4, 1980 B-199353 The Honorable Harold Brown The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject: Survey of DOD's Management of Automatic and General-Purpose Electronic Test Equipment (LCD-80-106) We have completed a survey of the Department of Defense's (DOD's) management of automatic and general-purpose electronic test equipment. Maintenance activities use this equipment to test and repair operational systems. The Air Force and Navy, the largest users of automatic testing, have about $15 billion invested in current automatic test equipment inventories. DOD, with industry's assistance, has studied the prob- lems of selecting, acquiring, and using automatic test equip- ment and has ongoing efforts to address the problems. Therefore, we do not anticipate doing additional audit work at this time. Instead, we will monitor DOD's actions. During our survey we did observe one area where improve- ments are needed. The Navy could better identify and coor- dinate general-purpose electronic test equi-pment overages and shortages among the using commands and then redistribute the equipment as appropriate. These actions will reduce the possibility that the Navy will invest large sums of money to purchase equipment which is already available in one of its commands for redistribution. Our broad survey objectives were to (1) evaluate DOD's policies and procedures for authorizing, acquiring, selecting, and using automatic and general-purpose electronic test equip- ment and (2) determine the magnitude of test equipment prob- lems identilied previously. (947398) (A\

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