Management Review

Follow-Up on the Management Review of the Defense Logistics Agency Gao ID: NSIAD-88-107 March 28, 1988

GAO assessed the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) actions in response to 16 GAO recommendations for improving management controls and effectiveness.

GAO found that DLA: (1) completed actions in response to seven recommendations and has actions underway in response to nine; and (2) could further improve the steps it has already taken to improve strategic and mobilization planning and management controls. GAO also found that: (1) DLA did not identify the resources necessary for strategic, mid-, and short-range planning; (2) the services disagreed over the types of items to include in mobilization requirements, which delayed plan revisions; (3) field activity reports of potential contractor overpayments included incomplete data; (4) program offices did not provide managers with the data needed to assess their effectiveness in reducing the growth of nonstandard parts in its inventory; (5) DLA lacked actual cost data for its existing automatic data processing (ADP) operations to make the appropriate cost-benefit and other financial decisions related to its modernization program; (6) DLA did not centralize management control over its information resources activities; and (7) DLA continues to work on improving its weapon system support and its productivity program.

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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