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PLRD-83-38 1 (1983-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmur0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT. LOGISTICS, AND READINESS DIVISION B-202300 FEBRUARY 1, 1983 The Honorable John 0. Marsh, Jr. The Secretary of the Army Dear Mr. Secretary: 120453 Subject: Observations Regarding the Ammunition Production Base (GAO/PLRD-83-38) We have completed our review of the Army's modernization and expansion program for the ammunition production base. Our principal objectives were to determine the status of the program, identify production base deficiencies, and evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing and planned actions to overcome the problems. We performed our work primarily at the U.S. Army Armament Materiel Readiness Command, Rock Island, Illinois; the U.S. Army Munitions Production Base Modernization Agency, Dover, New Jersey; and six Army ammunition plants. We reviewed the Army's production base plan and ongoing and planned actions to estab- lish an industrial base capability to meet projected peacetime and mobilization requirements for conventional ammunition. Our review was performed in accordance with generally accepted government audit standards. The Army's goal is to have a modern, balanced, and responsive production base capable of meeting peacetime and wartime needs in the most efficient and economic manner. The modernized facili- ties were expected to require less time to start up; reduce unit production costs; and eliminate numerous environmental, health, and safety hazards associated with older production facilities. We found that although the U.S. production base has a tre- mendous capability and can generally produce the planned peace- time procurements of ammunition, it lacks the capacity to produce a large part of the projected mobilization requirements for many newer, more sophisticated ammunition items. Moreover, some exist- ing facilities could not be fully used, if needed in wartime, because of significant imbalances in capacities for various com- ponents required for end-item assembly. These shortfalls and im- balances affect numerous items the Army considers critical. In addition, many inactive production lines could not be reactivated as quickly as desired for mobilization because of equipment voids and other deficiencies. (947458)

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