Download or read book Opportunities to Improve Controls Over Department of Defense s Overseas Contingency Operations Cost Reporting written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opportunities to Improve Controls over Department of Defense's Overseas Contingency Operations Cost Reporting
Download or read book Opportunities to Improve Controls Over Department of Defense s Overseas Contingency Operations Cost Reporting written by Asif A. Khan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overseas Contingency Operations Funding and Cost Reporting for the Department of Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectives: Under the Comptroller General's authority, GAO evaluated: 1) the impact of changes to OCO funding guidance on DOD's fiscal year 2010 OCO funding request, 2) factors that could affect fiscal year 2010 OCO estimates for reducing troop levels in Iraq and increasing troop levels in Afghanistan, and 3) the extent of internal controls in DOD's process for producing its monthly OCO cost report to help ensure reliability of reported data.
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 Global war on terrorism DOD needs to improve the reliability of cost data and provide additional guidance to control costs report to congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO found numerous problems in DOD's processes for recording and reporting costs for GWOT, raising significant concerns about the overall reliability of DOD's reported cost data. As a result, neither DOD nor Congress can reliably know how much the war is costing and details on how appropriated funds are being spent, or have historical data useful in considering future funding needs. On the basis of GAO's work, DOD is taking steps to improve its cost reporting. Factors affecting the reliability of DOD's reported costs include long-standing deficiencies in DOD's financial systems, the lack of a systematic process to ensure that data are correctly entered into those systems, inaccurately reported costs, and difficulties in properly categorizing costs. In at least one case, reported costs may be materially overstated. Specifically, DOD's reported obligations for mobilized Army reservists in fiscal year 2004 were based primarily on estimates rather than actual information and differed from related payroll information by as much as $2.1 billion, or 30 percent of the amount DOD reported in its cost report. In addition, GAO found inadvertent double counting in the Navy's and Marine Corps' portion of DOD's reported costs amounting to almost $1.8 billion from November 2004 through April 2005. Because it was not feasible to examine all reported costs and significant data reliability problems existed, GAO was not able to determine the extent that total costs were misstated.
Download or read book Overseas Contingency Operations 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 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overseas contingency operations : funding and cost reporting for the Department of Defense
Download or read book Contingency Operations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overseas Contingency Operations written by Asif A. Khan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been engaged in domestic and overseas military operations in support of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). These operations include Operation Iraqi Freedom, which focuses principally on Iraq, and Operation Enduring Freedom, which focuses principally on Afghanistan but also includes operations in the Horn of Africa, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Obtaining an accurate picture of OCO costs is of critical importance given the need to evaluate trade-offs and make more effective use of defense dollars in light of the nation's long-term fiscal challenges. In the past, we have reported on the need for DOD to become more disciplined in its approach to developing plans and budgets, including building more OCO costs into the base defense budget.
Download or read book Overseas Contingency Operations written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2001, DOD has received more than $1.8 trillion in OCO funds. DOD defines “contingency operations” as small, medium, or large-scale military operations, while “base” activities include operating support for installations, civilian pay, and other costs that would be incurred, regardless of contingency operations. Congress separately appropriates amounts for base and OCO activities into the same appropriation accounts and directs how funds are to be spent by designating amounts in conference reports or explanatory statements accompanying the annual appropriations acts. This report (1) describes internal controls that selected DOD components use to separately account for OCO and base amounts during budget execution and (2) identifies and examines alternatives that Congress or DOD could use to separate funding for OCO and base activities.
Download or read book Overseas Contingency Operations Reported Obligations for the Department of Defense written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Management Regulation written by United States. Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overseas Contingency Operations Funding and Cost Reporting for the Department of Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectives: Under the Comptroller General's authority, GAO evaluated: 1) the impact of changes to OCO funding guidance on DOD's fiscal year 2010 OCO funding request, 2) factors that could affect fiscal year 2010 OCO estimates for reducing troop levels in Iraq and increasing troop levels in Afghanistan, and 3) the extent of internal controls in DOD's process for producing its monthly OCO cost report to help ensure reliability of reported data.
Download or read book Transforming Wartime Contracting written by Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, America's military and federal-civilian employees, as well as contractors, have performed vital and dangerous tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contractors' support however, has been unnecessarily costly, and has been plagued by high levels of waste and fraud. The United States will not be able to conduct large or sustained contingency operations without heavy contractor support. Avoiding a repetition of the waste, fraud, and abuse seen in Iraq and Afghanistan requires either a great increase in agencies' ability to perform core tasks and to manage contracts effectively, or a disciplined reconsideration of plans and commitments that would require intense use of contractors. Failure by Congress and the Executive Branch to heed a decade's lessons on contingency contracting from Iraq and Afghanistan will not avert new contingencies. It will only ensure that additional billions of dollars of waste will occur and that U.S. objectives and standing in the world will suffer. Worse still, lives will be lost because of waste and mismanagement.
Download or read book Contingency Operations DoD s Reported Costs Contain Significant Inaccuracies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since fiscal year 1992, the Department of Defense (DOD) has reported over $7 billion in incremental costs for its participation in contingency operations. Accurate reporting of contingency operations costs is important for effective congressional oversight of appropriated funds. Over the past several years, the Congress has provided supplemental funding or reprogramming of previously appropriated funds to cover contingency operations costs. When costs are inaccurately reported, the Congress cannot assess with confidence the sufficiency of funds it has provided DOD. In response to a request from the Chairmen of the House Committees on International Relations and National Security, GAO reviewed (1) the accuracy of DoD-reported incremental costs for contingency operations and (2) the adequacy of DOD guidance and accounting systems to ensure accurate cost reporting.
Download or read book Contingency Operations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Financial Management Improvement and Audit Readiness Efforts Continue to Evolve written by Asif A. Khan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. As one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world, the DoD faces many challenges in resolving its pervasive and long-standing financial mgmt. and related business operations and systems problems. DoD is required by various statutes to: (1) improve its financial mgmt. processes, controls, and systems to ensure that complete, reliable, consistent, and timely info. is prepared and responsive to the financial info. needs of agency mgmt. and oversight bodies; and (2) produce audited financial statements. This statement provides a perspective on DoD's current efforts to address its financial mgmt. weaknesses and achieve auditability, including the status of its Enterprise Resource Planning system implementations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Contingency Operations Army Should Do More to Control Contract Cost in the Balkans written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has relied on contractors to provide supplies and services in support of major contingencies since the Revolutionary War. In the past decade, however, deployed U.S. forces have increased significantly their dependence on contractors for support. In the Balkans, the primary contractor houses, feeds, and provides a range of other services to about 11,000 troops and played a key role in building the base camps in Bosnia and Kosovo. The Department of Defense (DOD) has increasingly relied on contractors rather than soldiers to provide some services in the Balkans as force-level ceilings have been reduced, and contracts for support services represented over $2 billion of the more than $13.8 billion spent on Balkan operations through March 2000. Moreover, we have identified defense contract management as a high-risk area of government spending. Based on the magnitude of contractor costs and the need to ensure that services are provided as efficiently as possible, you asked us to determine whether there are opportunities to improve contractor utilization and reduce costs of Balkan operations without jeopardizing mission success. This report assesses whether (1) the Army is taking effective actions to contain costs and (2) improvements are needed in how the Army and other DOD agencies involved in Balkan operations manage activities under the primary Balkan contract.
