AMCOM Cost of Corrosion Assessment

Congress has enacted legislation that requires the Secretary of Defense to accomplish specific actions to prevent or mitigate corrosion of the Department’s military equipment and infrastructure. To perform its mission of corrosion prevention and mitigation, fulfill congressional requirements, and respond to Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations, DoD through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Technology and Logistics (USD[AT&L]) established the Corrosion Prevention and Control Integrated Product Team (CPC IPT), a cross-functional team of personnel from all the military services and representatives from private industry.  In response to a GAO recommendation to “develop standardized methodologies for collecting and analyzing corrosion cost, readiness, and safety data,” the CPC IPT created a standard method to measure the cost of corrosion for military equipment and infrastructure. 

In June of 2007, the CPC IPT published the results of the cost of corrosion study for the Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command.  The Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) will convene a Corrosion Workshop in October 2008.  The objective for the AMCOM Corrosion Workshop is to form a Command Group Corrosion Integrated Product Team (IPT), followed shortly thereafter by forming Aviation and Missile Weapon Systems Corrosion Working Integrated Product Teams.  These WIPTs will attack corrosion issues for their respective weapon systems.

In addition to using the Annual Cost of Corrosion for Army Aviation and Missile Study (Report SKT50T3) and the Cost of Corrosion Assessment Guidebook (Report MEC70T4), AMCOM has identified additional sources for identifying corrosion opportunities.