Installation Maintenance: Better Information on Risks and Challenges Needed to Improve Oversight of DOD Facility Conditions
What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) does not request full funding of identified needs for installation maintenance or major improvement projects for facilities. This shortage has led to an estimated $285 billion of maintenance backlogs in fiscal year 2025. Due to competing budget priorities, DOD set a goal to fund 90 percent of its maintenance needs, but GAO found that the military services continue to fall short of this goal by funding about 80 percent of these needs. DOD has not fully determined the risks to its mission and to the quality of life of its personnel as a result of not meeting its funding goal. Fully determining and communicating these risks would provide better in.
Reported by Maria LopezInstallation Maintenance: Better Information on Risks and Challenges Needed to Improve Oversight of DOD Facility Conditions.
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What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) does not request full funding of identified needs for installation maintenance or major improvement projects for facilities.
This shortage has led to an estimated $285 billion of maintenance backlogs in fiscal year 2025.
Due to competing budget priorities, DOD set a goal to fund 90 percent of its maintenance needs, but GAO found that the military services continue to fall short of this goal by funding about 80 percent of these needs.
DOD has not fully determined the risks to its mission and to the quality of life of its personnel as a result of not meeting its funding goal.
Fully determining and communicating these risks would provide better in…
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