United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-06-06 monographic deposited born digital 23 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-00-168 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168 P0b002ee180382c66 f:ns00168 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168 NSIAD-00-168 Defense budgets Defense contingency planning Cost analysis Military training Military intervention Foreign military assistance Education or training costs Supplemental appropriations Armed forces abroad Combat readiness Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund Kosovo (Serbia) Bosnia Letter Report NSIAD

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Department of Defense's (DOD) contingency operations costs and funding for fiscal year (FY) 2000, focusing on: (1) how DOD components identify incremental costs in support of contingency operations; and (2) on the need for, and average cost of, mission rehearsal exercises conducted by the Army in preparation for contingency deployments.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) DOD estimates all ongoing contingency operations in FY 2000 will cost $4.7 billion, with operations in the Balkans and Southwest Asia accounting for over 99 percent of that total; (2) to date, DOD has received about $2.65 billion for FY 2000 contingency operations; (3) Congress appropriated $396 million directly to the services' military personnel accounts; (4) the remaining $2.3 billion came from the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund, which Congress created to provide funding to DOD components for contingency costs; (5) in February 2000, the President submitted a request for an emergency supplemental appropriation of about $2.05 billion for contingency operations in Kosovo and East Timor for FY 2000; (6) the supplemental request is pending; (7) nevertheless, if the supplemental is not enacted, Army officials report that they will have to reduce overall operation and maintenance spending in late July to cover the shortfall in contingency operations costs; (8) the Air Force and the Navy's Atlantic and Pacific Fleets use different methodologies to calculate their costs for flying hours in support of contingencies; (9) the DOD regulation on contingency operations costs permits different methodologies, but this practice results in different rates of reimbursement for similar levels of activity; (10) the Air Force is seeking $47.2 million in the supplemental appropriation request to repair or restore infrastructure used during contingency operations in Kosovo; (11) no other service is seeking similar reimbursement in the budget request; (12) DOD's regulation does not provide for whether maintenance of home station infrastructure can be an allowable incremental cost; (13) however, DOD officials believe that some home station costs may be attributable to contingency operations and plan to revise the regulation; and (14) exercise costs, which average about $9-$15 million are offset against the costs that would have been incurred for other exercises or training that the units had scheduled before deployment was tasked but which were cancelled or modified due to the deployment. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168.pdf GAO/NSIAD-00-168 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-168 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-00-168; Defense Budget: Fiscal Year 2000 Contingency Operations; Defense budgets Defense contingency planning Cost analysis Military training Military intervention Foreign military assistance Education or training costs Supplemental appropriations Armed forces abroad Combat readiness Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund Kosovo (Serbia) Bosnia Title 41 Section 11 41 U.S.C. 11