The Army Can Do More To Assure War Reserve Funds Are Spent Effectively

Gao ID: NSIAD-84-50 February 17, 1984

GAO reviewed the Army's current program to revise its system for computing war reserve materiel requirements, including its procedures for management reporting, funding, item identification, and selection of war reserve items.

GAO found that: (1) the Army needs to improve its war reserve item identification and selection procedures; (2) war reserve stocks are imbalanced; and (3) low priority assets are not redistributed overseas. GAO also determined that: (1) excess assets should be deleted and peacetime long-supply assets should be transferred to improve Army war reserves; and (2) the Army needs to establish criteria for preparing and using war reserve studies.

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.

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