Defense headquarters : guidance needed to transition U.S. Central Command's costs to the base budget : report to Congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Defense headquarters (2014 June)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Command--Personnel management.

United States.

United States. Central Command--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States. Department of Defense--Personnel management.

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

United States. Central Command.

United States. Department of Defense.

Unified operations (Military science).

United States--Armed Forces--Headquarters.

Armed Forces--Headquarters.

Expenditures, Public.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 44 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

CENTCOM is one of six geographic combatant commands that DOD operates to perform its military missions. CENTCOM's geographic region is composed of countries located in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and South Asia. CENTCOM and each of its service component commands' headquarters are composed of military and civilian personnel and receive millions of dollars in funding each year to accomplish assigned missions. GAO was mandated to review CENTCOM's resources. This report (1) identifies trends in personnel devoted to CENTCOM and its service component commands since fiscal year 2001 and any steps DOD is planning to take for reducing personnel in the future, and (2) assesses how DOD funds CENTCOM and its service component commands' headquarters costs. GAO analyzed data on authorized positions, temporary personnel, and headquarters costs for CENTCOM and its service component commands from fiscal years 2001 through 2013. GAO also interviewed DOD officials about commands' resources and plans for funding headquarters costs.

Contents:

Background

CENTCOM and its service components' personnel have grown considerably over the past decade, and the extent of reductions is unclear

CENTCOM and its components rely heavily on overseas contingency operations appropriations to operate their headquarters, and plans for transitioning these costs have not been developed

Conclusions.

Notes:

"June 2014."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed June 10, 2014).

"GAO-14-440."

OCLC:

881225237