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Iraq and Afghanistan : agencies face challenges in tracking contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives / statement of John P. Hutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Hutton, John P.
- Series:
- Testimony ; GAO-10-509T.
- Testimony ; GAO-10-509T
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Personnel management.
- United States.
- United States. Agency for International Development--Personnel management.
- United States. Agency for International Development.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- Defense contracts--United States.
- Defense contracts.
- Contracting out--United States--Management.
- Contracting out.
- Government contractors--United States.
- Government contractors.
- Interagency coordination--United States.
- Interagency coordination.
- Contracting out--Management.
- Personnel management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (11 pages).
- Other Title:
- Agencies face challenges in tracking contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]
- Summary:
- The Departments of Defense (DOD) and State (State) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have relied extensively on contractors, grantees, and cooperative agreement recipients to support troops and civilian personnel and carry out reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This reliance increases the importance of agencies having reliable data to inform decision-making and oversee the work performed. To help increase oversight of activities supporting DOD, State, and USAID's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, as amended, required the agencies to identify common databases of information on their contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel. In their July 2008 memorandum of understanding (MOU), the three agencies designated the Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) as their system for tracking the required information. GAO's testimony addresses (1) how a lack of information hinders agencies' management and oversight of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel, (2) the status of the agencies' continued efforts to implement SPOT, and (3) GAO's prior recommendation to improve SPOT's implementation.
- Contents:
- Background
- Lack of information on contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements and associated personnel can hinder agencies' management and oversight
- Though SPOT implementation continues, challenges remain in tracking personnel and contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements
- Prior recommendation for executive action and concluding observations.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed Mar. 29, 2010).
- "For release ... March 23, 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 586031127
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