DOD IG: SOCOM needs to improve sensitive equipment inventory data

By Jordana Mishory / January 5, 2017 at 12:06 PM
U.S. Special Operations Command needs to better account for its sensitive equipment, according to the Defense Department inspector general, which found that the command's logistics management system could differ from inventory levels by hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment. In a Dec. 12 report , the DOD IG found that SOCOM lacks "accurate inventory data needed to make timely and informed sensitive equipment management decisions." In addition, the command does not have the needed data in order to...

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