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Improvements Needed in Defense Programs for Training
Transportation Officers and Agents. LCD-77-229; B-189179. Jujy
20, 1977. 8 pp.
Report to Secretary, Department of Defense; by Fred J. Shafer,
Director, Logistics and Communications Div.
Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management. Federal
Transportation of Things (7C4).
Contact: Logistics and Communications Div.
Budqat Function: National Defense: Department of Defense -
ailitary (except procurezent & contracts) (051).
The Department of Defense's (DOD's) traffic management
training programs lack uniformity, and differences exist in the
selection of personnel for traffic management training.
rindings/Conclusions: DOD spends over $3 billion a year for
comaercial transportation services. Each year it is involved in
hundreds of thousauds of transportation procurements subject to
numerous statutes, policies, regulations, directives, and
commercial and industrial fund tariffs. The most important
elemeDt in the traffic janaqement programs is the caliber of the
people who do the work. Although the skills and requirements for
traffic manageaent positions throughout the Department are
essentially the same, there is a divrsity of training
philosophies among the services. Wide differences exist among
the three services in the selection of traffic management
personnel for training. Recommendations: The Department of
Defense should: consider making the 1avy's Transportation School
the primary interservice traffic management facility; include
instruction in intermodalism and forei( n military sales in
school curricula; require in-residence instruction for all
installation transportation officers; and reexamine the staffing
of installation transportation officer positions and determine
the extent to which senior enlisted personnel could replace
officers and civilians. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacnj0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)