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PLRD-83-40 1 (1983-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmvl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FEBRUARY 17.1983 PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS, AND READINESS DIVISION Lieutenant General Bennett L. Lewis Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Mobilization, Planning and Requirements) Dear Lieutenant General Lewis: Subject: DOD Initiatives Regarding Mobilization Facilities Planningt (GAO/PLRD-83-40) The General Accounting Office has completed a survey of the Department of Defense's (DOD) and the military services' policies and procedures for identifying and scheduling facilities that will be needed in the event of a partial or full mobilization in the United States. In essence, we found that the services have not determined the-type and quantity of facilities needed for mobilization and thus have no estimate of the additional facilities needed or plans to acquire such facilities. The stated reasons for not having determined the facilities needed varied among the services but generally related to the assumption that a war would be so short that for the most part only existing resources would be used with little or no time available to mobilize. However, as discussed below, DOD has initiated a number of actions designed to identify and, if necessary, schedule for acquisition facilities needed for mobilization. BACKGROUND Recent mobilization exercises demonstrated that the services had mobilization problems insofar as facilities were concerned. Recognizing the need for improved peacetime mobilization planning, DOD established a management system to track corrective actions on the specific problems identified by the exercises. Further, DOD initiated efforts to establish mobilization planning as a DOD-wide priority and to provide the funding necessary to permit identification of the types and quantities of facilities needed. (945822) I I i20632 120632

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