The United States reorganized its chemical and biological defense efforts in response to repeated criticism from the General Accounting Office, Aerospace Daily reported today (see GSN, April 25).

The GAO has warned that the Defense Department has a “diffuse” management structure for its chemical and biological defense resources.

Since 1996, auditors have warned of a “serious gap between the priority given to chemical and biological defense and the actual implementation of the program,” according to a GAO report from last year.

Auditors’ reports also criticized inventory management for protective suits, Aerospace Daily reported.

GAO has faulted the existing structure for allowing senior leadership little visibility of the overall effort.  Under the new plan a clear line of authority will be established, according to Aerospace Daily (Stephen Trimble, Aerospace Daily, April 29).

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