Opportunities To Improve the Effectiveness of the Army's Logistics Review Process

Gao ID: NSIAD-83-25 August 5, 1983

GAO examined the Army's independent review process of integrated logistics support (ILS) planning during its acquisition operations. The reviews are conducted by the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (DCSLOG) and the Logistics Evaluation Agency (LEA).

GAO found that some evaluation shortcomings may adversely affect the efficiency of the process and that improvements should be made. GAO noted that problems usually occur because: (1) only cursory reviews are conducted on some Army systems which increases the probability that support problems will go undetected; (2) testing agencies do not always submit complete and timely data; (3) DCSLOG and LEA do not routinely identify the actions needed to correct support and logistics problems; and (4) the criteria for identifying problems tend to be too subjective and need to be more objectively related to operational readiness.

Recommendations

Our recommendations from this work are listed below with a Contact for more information. Status will change from "In process" to "Open," "Closed - implemented," or "Closed - not implemented" based on our follow up work.

Director: Henry W. Connor Team: General Accounting Office: National Security and International Affairs Division Phone: (202) 275-4141


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