The Department of Defense (DOD) has recently created three new programs to help military spouses obtain employment: (1) the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts (MyCAA) tuition assistance program, (2) the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP), which connects military spouses with employers, (3) and the Military Spouse Career Center, consisting of a call center and a website for mil

This letter formally transmits the briefing in response to House Report No. 110-652, which accompanied the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Pub. L. No. 110-417). The House report directed the Secretary of the Army to submit a report on Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) implementation at Army depots and the expected end-state capabilities of LMP to the Sen

DOD used a tailored acquisition approach to rapidly acquire and field MRAP vehicles. The program established minimal operational requirements and relied heavily on commercially available products. The program also undertook a concurrent approach to producing, testing, and fielding the vehicles. To expand limited existing production capacity, the department awarded indefinite delivery, indefinite

The KMCC project has encountered cost, schedule, and performance problems. Currently neither Landesbetrieb Liegenschafts- und baubetreuung's office in Kaiserslautern (LBB-Kaiserslautern), the German government construction agency in charge of the project, nor the Air Force have a reliable estimated completion date or final cost for the project. Problems facing KMCC include construction flaws, van

GAO found that: (1) agencies reported that more than a third of the serious internal control weaknesses in financial management, procurement, debt collection, and property management which they had cited since 1983 remained uncorrected; and (2) agency self-evaluations identified 229 new weaknesses in 1986. GAO also found that agencies: (1) reported that they had corrected many of their internal c

GAO found that: (1) the program recently underwent a major restructuring in response to the technical problems revealed in testing; (2) the Army has questioned the value of the contractor's tests and estimates that it will run out of air vehicles before the operational test can be completed; (3) the program has experienced considerable cost growth and schedule delays stemming from technical probl

According to Army officials, the new equipment will reduce the present volume of paper training materials and will provide: (1) a standard information delivery system with high density storage and rapid access capability to replace the paper and other existing audiovisual delivery systems; (2) the latest state-of-the-art in information delivery; and (3) interactive programmed instructions and sim

MARC is the process used by the Army to determine the number of soldiers needed to perform combat support and combat service support functions in deployable units. GAO concern about MARC arose from the serious problems found in the Manpower Authorization Criteria program, the predecessor to MARC, which diminished the reliability and credibility of the Army's manpower planning. An effective manpow

The Army's NTC was established to provide soldiers with a training environment that closely parallels actual warfare. The training realism, intensiveness, and evaluation offered at NTC supplement the training accomplished by Army units at their home installations. GAO found that, in the long term, training at NTC should benefit Army units as more officers, trainers, and soldiers repeat NTC traini