Internal Controls

Status of Army Efforts To Control Contractor Access to the DOD Supply System Gao ID: NSIAD-88-98 March 11, 1988

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's: (1) efforts to better control contractor access to the Department of Defense (DOD) supply system; and (2) financial accountability for government-furnished materiel (GFM).

GAO found that: (1) in 1981, DOD directed the services to establish management control activities (MCA) over maintenance contractors' access to the DOD supply system, but the Army did not expect total implementation of MCA until 1989; (2) the Army had not developed a GFM accounting system that would identify or control the amount of GFM provided to contractors; (3) the Army allowed contractors uncontrolled access to the DOD supply system to requisition GFM; and (4) the Army is studying the feasibility of establishing MCA controls at the base level and expects to implement the study's recommendations in 1988.

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