Defense Transportation: Final Evaluation Plan Is Needed to Assess Alternatives to the Current Personal Property Program
NSIAD-00-217R
Published: Sep 27, 2000. Publicly Released: Sep 27, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's Transportation Command's efforts to evaluate alternatives to the current personal property program.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should direct the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Transportation Policy), the Transportation Command, and the Department of Defense Inspector General take the necessary actions to resolve outstanding cost issues this fall so that the Transportation Command can have a complete evaluation plan in place to begin assessing alternatives to the current personal property program. |
Closed – Implemented
In December 2001, the U.S. Transportation Command issued the final/revised version of it's Personal Property Pilot Programs Evaluation Plan which addressed the previously unresolved direct and indirect cost issues. DOD developed a fully automated, constructed cost database using business rules for managing and costing-out household goods shipments that were developed and approved by the pilot program officials and military service representatives. This constructed cost database combined attributes of the two approaches-- an automated, constructed cost methodology using historical data, and a manual constructed cost approach using the business rules used in the current program-- that were being considered in calculating baseline direct costs. The U.S. Transportation Command used the results of a recently issued DOD Offset Cost Report for determining baseline and pilot indirect cost data.
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Data integrityDefense cost controlDepartment of Defense contractorsEmployee transfersEvaluation methodsPersonal propertyProgram evaluationTransportation costsMilitary forcesData collection