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 1998-01-20 monographic deposited born digital 22 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-98-41 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41 P0b002ee180391ef4 f:ns98041 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41 NSIAD-98-41 Privatization Maintenance services contracts Equipment maintenance Computer software Maintenance costs Department of Defense contractors Reporting requirements Cost analysis Military materiel C-5 Aircraft Letter Report NSIAD

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) guidelines and procedures for identifying depot maintenance workloads and quantifying the public and private sectors' share of depot maintenance funding, focusing on: (1) public and private workload distributions as reported by the military departments and defense agencies for fiscal years 1996 through 2002; and (2) the procedures DOD uses to define and quantify depot workload distribution.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) DOD's May 1997 report of public and private sector depot maintenance workload distribution for fiscal years 1996 through 2002 did not provide a complete, consistent, and accurate assessment of DOD's public and private sector funding; (2) vague Office of the Secretary of Defense guidance and incomplete and inconsistent reporting of data by the military departments and defense agencies contributed to this condition; (3) the workload distribution analysis showed that in fiscal year 1996 DOD spent $7.1 billion for work assigned to public sector facilities and about $3.4 billion for work assigned to the private sector; (4) in addition, DOD's analysis shows that DOD provided an additional $706 million for depot maintenance-related work acquired from the private sector through interim contractor support and contractor logistics support arrangements; (5) DOD's depot maintenance workload distribution and supporting data shows that: (a) in some cases modification and conversion work obtained from private sector contractors was not reported but similar work in public depots was included; (b) reporting of computer software maintenance work was inconsistent and perhaps incomplete; (c) public sector depot maintenance funding included substantial expenditures for goods and services purchased from private sector contractors, and resulted in inconsistent reporting of the allocation between the public and private sector; and (d) depot maintenance expenditures for equipment and software owned by various defense agencies were not reported. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41.pdf GAO/NSIAD-98-41 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-98-41 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-98-41; Defense Depot Maintenance: Information on Public and Private Sector Workload Allocations; Privatization Maintenance services contracts Equipment maintenance Computer software Maintenance costs Department of Defense contractors Reporting requirements Cost analysis Military materiel C-5 Aircraft Title 10 Section 2460 Title 10 Section 2464 Title 10 Section 2466 Title 10 Section 2469 10 U.S.C. 2460 10 U.S.C. 2464 10 U.S.C. 2466 10 U.S.C. 2469