DOD Making Progress in Identifying and Marketing Obsolete Repair Parts

Gao ID: NSIAD-85-47 February 21, 1985

In a follow-up review of obsolete items held in Department of Defense (DOD) inventories, GAO: (1) determined if DOD is still maintaining large inventories of obsolete repair parts; and (2) reviewed actions taken to offer these repair parts for sale to foreign governments.

GAO found that aggressive actions by the military services to identify and initiate system support buy-outs through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program channels could reduce the possibilities of either unnecessarily holding obsolete repair parts in service inventories or needlessly disposing of repair parts still needed by friendly foreign governments. Also, according to DOD, buy-out programs enhance logistics support to foreign allies. The Air Force and the Navy have made significant progress in implementing buy-out programs.

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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