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NSIAD-94-232R 1 (1994-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackpx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ACX United Statesi$3Z G3AO General Accounting Office National Security and International Affairs Division B-256845 August 11, 1994 General Leon E. Salomon Commanding General Army Materiel Command General David M. Maddox Commander-in-Chief U.S. Army, Europe We have completed our review of U.S. Army, Europe's (USAREUR), Prepositioned Materiel Configured to Unit Sets (POMCUS) program. The United States Army's Combat Equipment Group, Europe (CEGE), is responsible for storing, maintaining, and issuing over 129,000 pieces of POMCUS equipment, including over 20,000 pieces of rolling stock. At the end of fiscal year 1995, the Army Materiel Command will assume ownership of this equipment. This letter discusses (1) lack of readiness of POMCUS equipment, (2) factors negatively affecting readiness, and (3) opportunities for improving management. MOST POMCUS EQUIPMENT DOES NOT MEET READINESS GOALS The Army's general standard for maintaining equipment readiness is the Technical Manual -101-20 standard. It requires equipment to be fully capable of performing all of its missions as well as to be in near-perfect operating condition. However, the Department of the Army has allowed CEGE to relax this standard for POMCUS equipment to the fully mission capable standard during the draw down of forces in Europe. The fully mission capable standard only requires that all mission essential subsystems be installed and operating. The Army's goal is that 90 percent of the stock meet the fully mission capable standard. There are several different ways to measure the readiness of POMCUS equipment. However, for all of the methodologies we applied, the standard was not met. GAO/NSIAD-94-232R Army Prepositioned Equipment in Europe

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