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Article: GAO Recommends Improved Practices For Maintaining Aircraft Availability.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- May 13, 2003
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A new General Accounting Office report addressing aircraft availability goals recommends that the Department of Defense implement a series of reforms to accommodate future requirements.
"To ensure that aircraft availability goals and their performance measures are appropriate to the new defense strategy and based on a clear and defined process, we recommend that (1) DoD and the services determine whether different types of aircraft availability goals are needed, (2) as appropriate, DoD an the services validate the basis for the existing MC (mission capable) and FMC (full-mission capable) goals, and (3) the Secretary of Defense revise DoD Instruction 3110.5 to ...