Government auditors are recommending the military services organize and execute strategies to adopt predictive maintenance practices for their weapon systems to reduce costs and facilitate smoother operations. Published on Thursday, the Government Accountability Office report indicates that although the Defense Department released an interim predictive maintenance policy in 2002, the services have been slow to implement and evaluate the practice until recently, and still lack cohesive plans to do so. Predictive maintenance -- the practice of using condition-monitoring technology and...
