Report: Hill was warned about inventories

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Report: Hill was warned about inventories
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Apr 6, 2008 17:32:00 EDT

SALT LAKE CITY — Inspectors warned Hill Air Force Base a year ago about problems with computer inventories of ballistic missile parts, the Deseret Morning News reported Sunday.

Auditors said poor record-keeping at Hill could lead to mistakes — like one that happened the previous fall but nobody was aware of until recently.

Inspectors recommended that Hill and its contractor conduct “a current and complete physical inventory of government-owned material and reconcile the inventory,” according to a copyright story in Sunday’s editions.

The Morning News obtained the Air Force Audit Agency report, dated May 30, 2007, through a Freedom of Information Act request. A shipment of ballistic missile fuses was sent by mistake from the Utah air base to Taiwan. The wrong shipment was delivered in fall of 2006, but the Pentagon discovered last month how significant the error was.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a full inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials.


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