Download or read book Defense Budget written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) spent about 40 percent of the total defense budget to operate and maintain the nation's military forces in fiscal year 2005. Operation and maintenance (O&M) funding is considered one of the major components of funding for readiness. O&M appropriations fund the training, supply, and equipment maintenance of military units as well as the infrastructure of military bases. Over the past several years, DOD has increasingly used contractors, rather than uniformed or DOD civilian personnel, to provide O&M services in areas such as logistics, base operations support, information technology services, and administrative support. The House Appropriations Committee directed GAO to examine growing O&M costs and support services contracting. This GAO report (1) identifies the trends in O&M costs and services contracts and the reasons for the trends, (2) discusses whether increased services contracting has exacerbated the growth of O&M costs, and (3) provides perspectives on the benefits and concerns associated with increased contracting for support services.
Download or read book Defense Budget Trends in Operation and Maintenance Costs and Support Services Contracting written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) spent about 40 percent of the total defense budget to operate and maintain the nation's military forces in fiscal year 2005. Operation and maintenance (O & M) funding is considered one of the major components of funding for readiness. O & M appropriations fund the training, supply, and equipment maintenance of military units as well as the infrastructure of military bases. Over the past several years, DOD has increasingly used contractors, rather than uniformed or DOD civilian personnel, to provide O & M services in areas such as logistics, base operations support, information technology services, and administrative support. The House Appropriations Committee directed GAO to examine growing O & M costs and support services contracting. This GAO report (1) identifies the trends in O & M costs and services contracts and the reasons for the trends, (2) discusses whether increased services contracting has exacerbated the growth of O & M costs, and (3) provides perspectives on the benefits and concerns associated with increased contracting for support services. GAO analyzed DOD's O & M appropriations, budgets, and services contract costs over a 10-year period and developed case studies of outsourced O & M-related work at three installations. GAO is not making any recommendations. DOD made only technical comments on a draft of this report.
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Download or read book Resourcing the National Defense Strategy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying for Military Readiness and Upkeep written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis, prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, examines how O & M spending grew in the 1980s and fell in the 1990s. The study highlights changes that could be made to achieve lower levels of spending by 2002. In keeping with the CBO's mandate to provide objective analysis, the study makes no recommendations--Preface.
Download or read book Operation and Support Costs for the Department of Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Analysis of the Fy 2021 Defense Budget written by Todd Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the FY 2021 Defense Budget from the CSIS Defense Budget Analysis program provides an in-depth assessment of the Trump administration's request for national defense funding in FY 2021. The analysis addresses overall trends in the defense budget, changes in the FY 2021 request, and issues for Congress and the next administration to consider. It also covers the budgets of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Space Force.
Download or read book Defense Budget written by Sharon Pickup and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks, Congress has provided about $800 billion as of July 2008 to the Dept. of Defense (DoD) for military operations in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). GWOT budget requests have grown in scope and the amount requested has increased every year. DoD uses various processes and the Contingency Operations Support Tool (COST) to estimate costs for these operations and to develop budget requests. This report assessed: (1) how DoD uses COST and other processes to develop GWOT budget requests; and (2) what actions DoD has taken to ensure COST adheres to best practices for cost estimation. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book The Military Balance 2022 written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe. It is used by academia, the media, armed forces, the private sector and government. It is an open-source assessment of the military forces and equipment inventories of 171 countries, with accompanying defence economics and procurement data. Alongside detailed country data, The Military Balance assesses important defence issues, by region, as well as key global trends, such as in defence technology and equipment modernisation. This analysis is accompanied by full-colour graphics, including maps and illustrations. With extensive explanatory notes and reference information, The Military Balance is as straightforward to use as it is extensive. The 2022 edition is accompanied by a fullcolour wall chart illustrating security dynamics in the Arctic.
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Download or read book Military Operations DOD Needs to Address Contract Oversight and Quality Assurance Issues for Contracts Used to Support Contingency Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) uses contractors to meet many of its logistical and operational support needs. With the global war on terrorism, there has been a significant increase in deployment of contractor personnel to areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan. In its fiscal year 2007 report, the House Appropriations Committee directed GAO to examine the link between the growth in DOD's operation and maintenance costs and DOD's increased reliance on service contracts. GAO determined (1) the extent to which costs for selected contracts increased and the factors causing the increases, (2) the extent to which DOD provided oversight for selected contracts, and (3) the reasons for DOD's use of contractors to support contingency operations. To address these objectives, GAO reviewed a nonprobability sample of seven DOD contracts for services that provide vital support to contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. GAO reviewed contract requirements, funding documents and DOD guidance for these contracts and interviewed DOD and contractor personnel. To ensure effective oversight, GAO recommends that DOD adequately staff oversight positions with qualified personnel, and address inconsistencies in maintaining contract files and implementing quality assurance principles. DOD concurred with each of GAO's recommendations and stated the Army was aware of and addressing the identified problems.
Download or read book Circular No A 11 written by Omb and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The June 2019 OMB Circular No. A-11 provides guidance on preparing the FY 2021 Budget and instructions on budget execution. Released in June 2019, it's printed in two volumes. This is Volume I. Your budget submission to OMB should build on the President's commitment to advance the vision of a Federal Government that spends taxpayer dollars more efficiently and effectively and to provide necessary services in support of key National priorities while reducing deficits. OMB looks forward to working closely with you in the coming months to develop a budget request that supports the President's vision. Most of the changes in this update are technical revisions and clarifications, and the policy requirements are largely unchanged. The summary of changes to the Circular highlights the changes made since last year. This Circular supersedes all previous versions. VOLUME I Part 1-General Information Part 2-Preparation and Submission of Budget Estimates Part 3-Selected Actions Following Transmittal of The Budget Part 4-Instructions on Budget Execution VOLUME II Part 5-Federal Credit Part 6-The Federal Performance Framework for Improving Program and Service Delivery Part7-Appendices Why buy a book you can download for free? We print the paperback book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the bound paperback from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these paperbacks as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound paperback, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com
Download or read book Paying for Military Readiness and Upkeep Trends in Operation and Maintenance Spending written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressures to find money for new weapon systems are pushing the Department of Defense (DoD) to take a fresh look at its infrastructure. Spending on operation and maintenance (O & M) is one of the chief sources of funding for infrastructure. In order to realize its plans and meet the level of defense spending included in the 1998 Congressional budget resolution, DoD may have to cut $ 11 billion from its current level of annual spending on O & M by 2002. In light of past trends, that could be difficult and would require either major changes in the amount or method of providing O & M support or reductions in the number of forces. This analysis, prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, examines how O & M spending grew in the 1980s and fell in the 1990s. The study highlights changes that could be made to achieve lower levels of spending by 2002. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective analysis, the study makes no recommendations.
Download or read book Contractor Support at Major Range and Test Facility Bases Contractors Fees written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective and efficient management of cost-reimbursement service contract costs contribute to DoD's overall objective of reducing the Defense budget. The Defense budget for cost-reimbursement and service contracts was $23.5 billion and $11.7 billion, respectively, for FY 1989. We identified 14 test ranges that had cost-plus-award-fee service contracts that were effective during FY's 1988 through 1990. The total value of the contracts was $3.7 billion. The Government has the flexibility to use various types of contracts to acquire the large variety and volume of materiel and services that it requires. One type of contract is a cost- reimbursement contract, which provides payment of allowable incurred costs. An example of a cost-reimbursement contract is a cost-plus-award-fee contract. Cost-plus-award-fee contracts provide a fee consisting of a base amount, which may be zero, that is established at the contract's inception and an award amount, which is based on a subjective evaluation by the Government, that is sufficient to maximize the contractor's performance.
Download or read book A Cost effective Comparison of Missile Weapon System Maintenance Concepts written by Andrew Lanning Keller and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to compare the cost/effectiveness of maintaining a missile system using conventional means (government personnel, material, facilities, equipment, and so forth) versus a program where the private sector, primarily the missile prime contractor, provides the required maintenance services to keep the missile weapon system operational. For several years the Department of Defense (DoD) has been getting a smaller portion of the Federal Budget. Social agencies have been getting more, and that trend will likely continue. Also, with the all-volunteer military, the portion of DoD spending going into pay for personnel and related costs has been going up. Operation and Support costs have been rising in parallel, so money available for acquisition of new weapons systems has been going down. Compounding this problem is the increase in costs of new systems over old, as technology advances. Successive weapons systems cost several times more than the earlier systems they replace. This has led the Department of Defense policy makers to conclude that some drastic action must be taken. The cost of new systems has to be pushed down and controlled. Searching for ways to reduce costs, DoD planners found that only a small portion of the money spent during the life cycle of a weapons system is spent during development. On a typical Defense System, only 3 percent of the total cost of the system is expended in the Validation Phase and only about 12 percent of the Life Cycle Costs in the Full Scale Development phase. Most of the money is allocated to Production and Operation and Support, approximately 35 percent is spent building the system for the military services to use, leaving about half the cost, 50 percent, spent in the Operations and Support phase. Obviously, Production and Operations and Support are major targets for cost cutting. However, it has been found that waiting until the production phase, or until the system is in operation, before taking action regarding the reduction of costs, is too late.Cost reduction planning requires an earlier start in the process. Early decisions determine Life Cycle Costs. The decisions on design features, configuration, production methods, and operation and maintenance concepts that are made very early in the program determine the cost that will be incurred for the whole program. Thus, on a typical program, by the end of the concept studies, about 70 percent of the Life Cycle Costs are set by the design decisions already made. Before Full Scale Development begins about 85 percent of the Life Cycle Costs are locked up, but only about 3 percent of the money has been spent. By the end of Full Scale Development, when the production go-ahead decision is made, approximately 95 percent of the Life Cycle Costs are frozen. After that it is too late to make changes that will affect more than about 5 percent of the overall systems costs. Clearly, effort directed at reducing cost must be initiated in the earliest stages of a program. Projected defense budget levels and rising costs of acquiring, operating, and supporting defense systems and equipment have created the need to make cost a principal design parameter. Several cost/effective weapon systems have recently been developed which, because of their cost, were not affordable in adequate numbers to satisfy mission requirements, necessitating additional lower cost developments. Emphasis in the past has been placed primarily on "unit production cost" with "consideration" of life cycle cost impacts. The reason was the inability to predict, or in fact measure, total operating and support costs. This has provided little motivation to the responsible Program Manager and subsequently to the development contractors to trade off lower predicted savings in operating and support cost in the future for near term "known" higher unit production costs. Recent acquisition strategies, however, have made in roads to addressing the operating and support cost portion of life cycle cost. The approach has been to look at that portion of the operating and support costs which are design dependent, reasonably predictable, and verifiable during the initial period of system operation. While only a part of the total operating and support costs meets these criteria, most important part, the part that the Department of Defense Program Manager and the contractors can affect and control during the acquisition cycle. The study derives its significance not only from the fact that costs are growing while budgets are cut. Severe shortages are being experienced by the armed forces for qualified and trained personnel. Today's modern sophisticated weapons can no longer be operated or maintained without proper training. In addition, the more highly specialized personnel require a more sophisticated and complex management support system. This form of management is uncommon to the armed forces, and other cost/effective options must be considered.
