Air Force Depot Maintenance Budgeting Difficulties and Operational Inefficiencies

摘要

For years the depot maintenance activity group has experienced difficulties in accurately budgeting for material costs, workforce productivity, and savings to be achieved through productivity improvements and other reform initiatives. These difficulties have adversely impacted the activity group's financial operations, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in operating losses and limited the group's ability to provide timely support to its customers. Although actions are underway to improve some problems, such as poor budget estimation and operational inefficiencies including declining productivity rates, it is uncertain to what extent the Air Force's long-standing problems are likely to be resolved in the short-term.