DOD's Management of Automatic and General Purpose Electronic Test Equipment

Gao ID: LCD-80-106 September 4, 1980

A survey was conducted to evaluate the Department of Defense's (DOD) policies and procedures for authorizing, acquiring, selecting, and using automatic and general purpose electronic test equipment and to determine the magnitude of test equipment problems previously identified.

The Air Force and the Navy are the largest users of automatic testing, and have about $15 billion invested in current automatic test equipment inventories. The Navy has recognized its opportunities to improve its visibility over and use of general purpose electronic test equipment and has taken action to better redistribute equipment to meet the needs of fleet activities. It has also taken steps to establish a centralized system to provide visibility over all general purpose electronic test equipment inventory estimated at over $1 billion. A system is being developed by the Naval Electronic Systems Command to identify general purpose electronic test equipment shortages and overages among commands. The system is expected to be complete in about 3 years. Currently, the Command has data available from air and sea activities to identify overages in one command to fill shortages in other commands, but does not have authority to direct intercommand transfers of equipment.

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