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Defense Inventory: Inadequate Controls Over Air Force Suspended Stocks

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 22, 1997
Report No. NSIAD-98-29
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Summary:

Poor management practices have allowed items in the Air Force's "suspended inventory," which cannot be issued because of questionable condition, to go unreviewed for years. As a result, the Air Force is vulnerable to incurring unnecessary repair and storage costs as well as readiness problems. Within the military, the Air Force has the largest amount of suspended inventory--more than 70 percent of the $3.3 billion of all Defense Department (DOD) suspended inventory. The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center has the highest reported value of suspended inventory, accounting for about $1.3 billion (53 percent) of the Air Force's suspended inventory. The vast majority of items that GAO reviewed at Warner Robins are not being reviewed in a timely manner. About 64 percent of the inventory that GAO reviewed had been in a suspended category for more than one year, and some had been suspended for more than six years.

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