The military services are getting more attention from Congress on the conditions of their government-owned maintenance facilities.
Members are concerned that the worsening physical state of the depots are the result of chronic underfunding the Defense budgeting process has failed to address, and the chairman of the House readiness subcommittee now wants the military services to submit detailed, near-term plans on what they’re doing to fix the problem.
The most recent comprehensive review of the department’s organic depots, conducted by the Government Accountability Office in 2019, found 12 out of 21 were in “poor” condition, based on DoD’s own facility rating criteria. Only four of the overall facilities’ overall state earned a “good” grade.
