The Defense Department is improving supply distribution operations,
but the Government Accountability Office has called for further actions
to sustain the effort.
It said supply distribution problems dating back to the Persian Gulf War
have impeded the department’s ability to provide effective and timely
logistics support.
DoD has assigned new organizational responsibilities, such as designating
the U.S. Transportation Command as the “distribution process owner,”
issuing a new logistics transformation strategy, and undertaking other
initiatives, according to its report GAO-05-775.
It said however that despite progress, “the department’s ability to
make coordinated, systemic improvements that cut across the multiple
organizations involved in the distribution system is stymied because
of problems in defining who has accountability and authority for making
such improvements and because the current strategy to transform logistics
does not provide a clear vision to guide and synchronize future distribution
improvement efforts.”
