This is the fifth in a series of reports on price trends in military spare parts. This report, along with one on the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) issued in April 2002, responds to your most recent request. It follows up on our November 2000 report on Navy aircraft parts in which we recommended actions to reduce and stabilize prices and overhead fees for aviation spare parts. As agreed, we also reviewed (1) the price increases for selected spare parts to identify the key factors contributing to those increases and (2) the Navy's progress in identifying and addressing the underlying causes for increased repairable spare parts prices. For this review, we analyzed the repair costs and pricing data, for fiscal years 1999 to 2002, of 453 selected spare parts from three Navy weapon systems: the H-53 helicopter, the F/A-18 Hornet fighter and attack aircraft, and the AV-8B Harrier attack aircraft and their engines. We then visited two Navy depots to collect detailed information on 31 of the 453 parts to determine why their costs continued to rise.
Defense Acquisitions: Navy Needs Plan to Address Rising Prices in Aviation Parts
2002
32 pages
Report
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English