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B-168454 1 (1971-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafne0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNI[TED STATES II~Dm AHNTN ..258li jQ ~UIIII LM095747 B-1l68454I N,~ 1 971 Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your letter of December 15, 1970, requesting comments on House Report No. 91-1718, Military Supply Systems: Cataloging, Standardization, and Provisioning of Spare Parts which was prepared by your Subcommittee. Your report is an excellent treatise on the problems beset- ting the Department of Defense in attaining efficient -upply management. We fully support your conclusion that osM and s s;ive measures must be taken to catalog and standardize items and control the proliferation of s epas, so that defense inventories will be reduced to levels that are manage- able, less costly, and more responsive to military needs. We consider the need to reduce the number of items in the Federal Catalog System and Defense Supply System to be of pexa- mount importance. We have issued a number of reports to the Congress containing recommendations to the Secretary of Defense designed to reduce the number of items stocked by supply organi- zations of the Department of Defense. In a current review, we found that the Department of Defense needs to remove more inactive and slow-moving items from inventories than it has already done. We also are reviewing Air Force and Navy provisioning policies and practices. Our observations to date in those reviews substantiate mamy of the comments in your report relating to the need to improve provisioning policies and practices. Within the next 6 months, we plan to initiate a Government- wide review of management and operation of the Federal Supply Catalog Program. Our objectives will include determining (U) the extent to which the program is accomplishing what was intended by the Congress, legislation, and implementing directives of the executive branch, (2) the adequacy of the organizational setup of top management to adequately supervise and control the program,

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