Overseas contingency operations : comparison of the Department of Defense's overseas contingency operations funding requests for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 / Sharon L. Pickup.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Pickup, Sharon L.

Contributor:

Borseth, Ann.

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

War, Cost of.

Expenditures, Public.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (21 pages) : chart

Other Title:

Comparison of the Department of Defense's overseas contingency operations funding requests for fiscal years 2010 and 2011

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]

Notes:

Chiefly slides.

Title from p.1 screen (GAO, viewed July 7, 2010).

"July 6, 2010."

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 include 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. Under the Comptroller General's authority, GAO evaluated: 1. The fiscal year 2011 OCO budget request by comparing it to the fiscal year 2010 OCO appropriation and the fiscal year 2010 OCO supplemental request. 2. The assumptions DOD used to create the fiscal year 2010 OCO supplemental request and the fiscal year 2011 OCO budget request. 3. The extent to which the assumptions used for creating the fiscal year 2010 OCO supplemental request and the fiscal year 2011 OCO budget request are sensitive to operational changes. 4. The extent to which DOD moved certain costs of ongoing contingency operations from its OCO budget request into its base budget request.

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-10-889R."

OCLC:

646194700