Inventory Management: Handheld Missiles Are Vulnerable to Theft and Undetected Losses

United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1994-09-16 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:NSIAD-94-100 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-100 P0b002ee18039e695 f:ns94100 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-100 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-100 NSIAD-94-100 Inventory control systems Missiles Military inventories Records management Internal controls Reporting requirements Facility security Larceny Federal property management Property losses Persian Gulf War Stinger Missile Redeye Missile Dragon Missile Letter Report NSIAD Inventory Management: Handheld Missiles Are Vulnerable to Theft and Undetected Losses Among other discrepancies, 40 deadly Stinger missiles shipped to the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War could not be accounted for when GAO visited military storage sites to check the inventory of handheld missiles--the Stinger, Redeye, and Dragon. In all, inventory records differed from GAO's physical count by thousands of missiles. The military services do not know how many of these missiles they have in their possession because they have not established systems to track the missiles produced, fired, destroyed, sold, and transferred by serial number. Lax military oversight and recordkeeping have left these missiles, which are in demand by terrorists and drug dealers, vulnerable to theft. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-100/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-100.htm GAO/NSIAD-94-100 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-94-100 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-94-100; Inventory Management: Handheld Missiles Are Vulnerable to Theft and Undetected Losses; Inventory control systems Missiles Military inventories Records management Internal controls Reporting requirements Facility security Larceny Federal property management Property losses Persian Gulf War Stinger Missile Redeye Missile Dragon Missile