Arizona Daily StarOctober 27, 1999
Report criticizes military for inadequate inventory controls
1999 Cox News Service,
WASHINGTON - The U. military keeps such poor track inventory that one branch can buy equipment, such as radar or engine parts, even as another branch discards identical items as surplus,, federal auditors said yes
terday. I
More than two decades after this problem was first exposed by the Defense Department itself, the Pentagon has yet to reform the way it manages $4 billion in spare parts used by more than one service, the U.S. General Accounting Office said in a report
to Congress.
As a result, personnel in the Air Force are often in the dark about what's available in the warehouses of the Army or the Navy.
Fixing the problem would bring "considerable savings," said the GAO.