The US Department of Defense (DOD) needs to reform and improve its system for collecting data on aviation mishaps, or air accidents, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th August, 2018) The US Department of Defense (DOD) needs to reform and improve its system for collecting data on aviation mishaps, or air accidents, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report on Wednesday.
"DOD needs to improve its approach for collecting and analyzing data to manage risks," the report said.
The GAO found that the safety centers did not collect standardized data for 10 to 17 of the 35 agreed-upon data elements for aviation mishaps that were to be provided to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), depending on the service, the report stated.
"According to military service and OSD officials, there is no consensus between the safety centers and OSD on OSD's role for conducting causal analysis of aviation mishaps, which has contributed to limitations in the analysis of aviation mishaps that OSD performs," the GAO said.
Also, the OSD must perform time-consuming manipulation and interpretation of some data elements received from the safety centers to carry out analyses which introduces the risk of errors and affects the timeliness of providing critical information to decision makers, the GAO added.
