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 1997-07-23 monographic deposited born digital 26 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-97-169 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169 P0b002ee18037d07b f:ns97169 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169 NSIAD-97-169 Logistics Defense contingency planning Inventory control systems Military inventories Combat readiness Equipment maintenance Military facility construction Systems design Military vessels Military materiel DOD Operation Vigilant Warrior Army Warfighter Equipment Status Report Army Large Medium-Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ship DOD Mobility Requirements Study Persian Gulf War Letter Report NSIAD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the readiness of the Army's war reserve equipment prepositioned afloat, focusing on the: (1) extent to which the brigade set of war reserve equipment, which is prepositioned on ships, meets the Army's readiness goal; and (2) status of the Army's efforts to establish facilities to maintain this brigade set of equipment and develop an information system that accurately measures and reports the readiness condition of war reserve equipment.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) of the unit sets considered when reporting the readiness of the brigade set of war reserve equipment, about 25 percent do not meet the Army's readiness goal for full mission capability; (2) according to Army maintenance records, some equipment aboard prepositioning ships had been reported as non-mission capable since September 1995; (3) one factor that contributed to lower readiness rates was that some equipment was not fully mission capable when it was originally loaded on prepositioning ships; (4) other factors include the deterioration of the equipment while in storage aboard ships and the limited ability to conduct maintenance on the equipment while in storage; (5) the Army plans to repair equipment that does not meet readiness standards by conducting maintenance on prepositioning ships every 30 months; (6) in addition, Army doctrine calls for logistics support teams to perform maintenance on prepositioned war reserve equipment when it is downloaded before a deployment; (7) further, the Army is currently transferring equipment to prepositioning ships that have been designed to better control the humidity of the shipboard environment; (8) the Army has given priority to prepositioned ships in its plans to redistribute equipment from central Europe; (9) this should improve the readiness of those unit sets currently lacking equipment required for meeting the Army's readiness goal; (10) Army maintenance facilities in Charleston, South Carolina, were originally scheduled to be completed before October 1996, in time for the facilities to be used to conduct maintenance on the first full shipload of equipment prepositioned afloat; (11) however, contracts for development of the site and construction and renovation of buildings had not been completed, and the maintenance contractor had to continue to rely on temporary shelters and had to develop less efficient maintenance processes; (12) according to Army and contractor officials, the use of temporary facilities did not prevent the successful completion of the maintenance mission; (13) basic elements of the Army's automated inventory system for management of war reserves have been put in place, including maintenance and readiness reporting software modules; (14) as of July 1997, the Army was still developing and implementing its information system; and (15) proposed improvements to the system includ* https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169.pdf GAO/NSIAD-97-169 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-97-169 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-97-169; Afloat Prepositioning: Not All Equipment Meets Army's Readiness Goal; Logistics Defense contingency planning Inventory control systems Military inventories Combat readiness Equipment maintenance Military facility construction Systems design Military vessels Military materiel DOD Operation Vigilant Warrior Army Warfighter Equipment Status Report Army Large Medium-Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ship DOD Mobility Requirements Study Persian Gulf War