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PLRD-83-60 1 (1983-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmxw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 9 / 7 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IROCUR'Mz NrT, .,GIWt r . AND R.AINIESS DIVISION B-209595 APRIL 28, 1983 The Honorable John 0. Marsh, Jr. The Secretary of the Army 121237 Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject: Black Hawk Logistics Support Should Have Been Better and Questions Exist Regarding Future Support (GAO/PLRD-83-60) We made this review to evaluate how effectively the Army planned logistical support for the recently fielded UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter. The Army accepted the first production model Black Hawk in October 1978. As of January 31, 1983, the Army had accepted 356 Black Hawks. It plans to buy a total of 1,107 by 1990, at a cost of $7.7 billion, to replace the UH-1 Huey helicopter. These figures do not include 77 Black Hawks configured for electronic missions. The Black Hawk has met important design criteria for mean time flight-hours between system failures and maintenance staff-hours per flight-hour and has nearly met the design criteria for reliability. But the Army is having trouble supporting the Black Hawk. Supply and maintenance problems have preveted the helicopter from meeting the Army's 80 percent mission capable standard. The mission capable rates improved steadily to almost 80 percent during the contractor supply support period. However, the rate has steadily decreased since the Army began providing this support. For example, during the last 2 years of contractor support, the mission capable average rates increased from 67.8 to 76.8 percent. However, as of December 15, 1982, the rate had decreased to 71.5 percent, due mainly to Army supply support problems. In May 1978, we reported to the Secretary of Defense that future Black Hawk support could be in jeopardy because logistics data was not up to date. This occurred because the Army did not provide funds for Sikorsky Aircraft, the airframe contractor, to continue its logistics support analysis for 14 months because available funds would not cover full-scale efforts on both the helicopter and the logistics support data base. Our current review confirmed these concerns and showed that logistics data problems have continued. (943115) c0c: *79/

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