Defense Budget: Fiscal Year 2000 Contingency Operations Costs and Funding
NSIAD-00-168
Published: Jun 06, 2000. Publicly Released: Jun 06, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Department of Defense's (DOD) contingency operations costs and funding for fiscal year (FY) 2000, focusing on: (1) how DOD components identify incremental costs in support of contingency operations; and (2) the need for, and average cost of, mission rehearsal exercises conducted by the Army in preparation for contingency deployments.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of Defense | 1. To ensure consistency in estimating and reporting incremental contingency operations costs, the Secretary of Defense should determine whether a common methodology for developing incremental flying hour costs is feasible, and, if so, revise the regulation on contingency operations to reflect that methodology. At a minimum, the Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretary of the Navy to develop and apply a single methodology for determining the incremental flying hours within the Navy. |
The Navy has developed and implemented a common methodology for calculating flying hours.
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| Department of Defense | 2. Because the regulation on contingency operations does not provide for wear and tear on infrastructure and related facilities at home stations as a contingency operation cost, the Secretary of Defense should modify the regulation to specifically state circumstances under which home station infrastructure wear and tear is allowable as a contingency operation cost. |
DOD has revised its regulation and credits GAO's report with being the catalyst for identifying the need for clarification in this area. In addition, it has denied $47.2 million in fiscal year 2000 infrastructure repair costs claimed by the Air Force.
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