United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2007-07-31 monographic deposited born digital 7 p. GA 1.13:GAO-07-1138R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R P0b002ee18039068a f:d071138r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R GAO-07-1138R Budget controllability Data integrity Erroneous payments Internal controls Military training Monitoring National Guard Pay Statistical data Correspondence A73750 In September 2004, the Air National Guard (ANG) discovered inaccuracies in its personnel strength data for recruits with no prior service assigned to pay groups F (attending Initial Active Duty Training, or IADT) and P (awaiting IADT). Specifically, these data did not reflect an accurate accounting of the number of recruits in pay groups F and P. Those recruits attending IADT work full-time and are paid accordingly (pay group F), while recruits waiting to attend IADT receive pay on a part-time basis at the rate of four drills per month (pay group P). The pay for those attending IADT is much higher than for those waiting to attend IADT, so the effect of miscoding the pay groups on ANG's budget estimates can be considerable. In May 2007, we reported to Congress that although ANG has taken reasonable steps to correct the errors in its personnel strength data, some problems still exist with a key quality assurance tool (the Status Report Card process) and with the reliability of the alternate data being reported while the inaccuracies are addressed. The purpose of this correspondence is to inform Congress of the additional steps we believe that ANG needs to take to ensure the reliability of the personnel strength data being reported for the two pay groups. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R.pdf GAO-07-1138R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-1138R Correspondence GAO-07-1138R; Military Personnel: Air National Guard Has Taken Steps to Improve the Reliability of Personnel Strength Data, but More Needs to Be Done; Budget controllability Data integrity Erroneous payments Internal controls Military training Monitoring National Guard Pay Statistical data