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Exhibit 290

DOD Financial Management: Air Force Needs to Properly Account for All General Equipment That Contractors Hold (GAO-26-107442)

Exhibit 290 ยท GAO report

DOD Financial Management: Air Force Needs to Properly Account for All General Equipment That Contractors Hold (GAO-26-107442)

GAO could not locate 18 of the 96 sampled items at the Reliance Test & Technology facility at Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Florida.

At the Eglin facility GAO could not locate 14 of 58 items in a generalizable sample (about 24 percent); at Standard Aero 58 of 104 sampled. GAO also verified all 187 pod records at a Raytheon facility and all sample items in the Defense Property Accountability System. Air Force partially concurred with one recommendation and concurred with the other.

Source
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date
February 2026
Quoted from
Highlights, PDF p. 2
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-107442.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Highlights give 18 of 96; the body reports 14 of 58 for the generalizable sample; the writer must state which sample.

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Finding DEF-3.8
Primary record GAO could not locate 18 of 96 sampled Air Force equipment items at the Reliance Test & Technology facility at Eglin Air Force Base; in the report body's generalizable sample at that facility the count was 14 of 58. GAO could not locate 58 of 104 sampled items at a second contractor, Standard Aero.