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Defense Inventory: Action Needed to Avoid Inappropriate Sales of Surplus Parts

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Aug. 3, 1998
Report No. NSIAD-98-182
Subject
Summary:

Lax compliance by the Defense Department with its own disposal policies and procedures has resulted in the inadvertent sale to the public of surplus parts with sensitive military technology intact. These sales occurred for three reasons. First, the military assigned the wrong demilitarization codes to the parts. Second, an initiative intended to correct inaccurately assigned demilitarization codes did not ensure that data systems were updated with the corrected codes. Third, the methods that the disposal offices used to demilitarize some parts did not adequately destroy the military technology they contained. At the same time, DOD has made slow and uneven progress in implementing initiatives to prevent the sale of dangerous aircraft parts to the public.

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