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Defense Air Transportation System

This program manages the military's long-range air transport system and provides urgent deliveries to US forces around the world. The program manages airlift aircraft, maintains equipment and parts and oversees personnel.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program has a clear purpose and design. The mission of the system is rapid global mobility and sustainment for America's armed forces.
  • The system serves deployed US forces effectively and promptly. The system monitors many measures of capacity and timeliness of processing or delivery of cargo to meet deadlines and improve service to its customers, the U.S. military forces.
  • Weaknesses include the absence of an independent and comprehensive review process, not tracking accuracy of delivery directly, and using an incomplete measure of system capacity.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Establishing independent, comprehensive reviews by objective review teams. These teams need to understand system operations but must not have substantive ties with the system.
  • Using modern identification systems to track shipments (including individual packages) in real time and to determine and improve accuracy of deliveries and timeliness of final deliveries.
  • Refining cargo capacity measures that would provide better estimates of system capacity and using those refinements to assess long-term resource (aircraft, control systems, people, maintenance) needs.

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