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GAO: Defense Property Accountability System Inadequate for Real-Time Inventory of F-35

GAO: Defense Property Accountability System Inadequate for Real-Time Inventory of F-35
A 158th Fighter Wing crew chief taxis an F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 158th FW at the Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vt. on, May 2. The aircraft departed to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, to continue NATO’s enhanced air policing mission along the eastern flank. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) is inadequate for the real-time inventory of property for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 at 671 government and contractor sites, per a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. In 2019, the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) found that the F-35 program was unable to track parts adequately, as it had not chosen an Accountable Property System of Record (APSR) required by DoD Instruction 5000.64 until October 2017 and had not catalogued parts in the system,…

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