Letter Inquiry: Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) Funding in Afghanistan

Abstract

I am writing to request financial and performance information for the Commanders Emergency Response Program1 (CERP) in Afghanistan. This information will help the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) continue its ongoing oversight of CERP and facilitate SIGARs contribution to the report mandated by Congress on CERP lessons learned and best practices.2 As part of SIGARs mandate to track the obligation and expenditure of U.S. reconstruction funds in Afghanistan, 3 SIGAR analysts recently determined that a significant portion of fiscal year (FY)2013 CERP funds appropriated by Congress were never used. Specifically, the Department of Defense (DOD) only obligated $43.5 million of $200 million appropriated for CERP before the funds expired at the end of September 2013. This is not a new phenomenon. As the attached chart illustrates, over the past six fiscal years the DOD has used only 59 percent of the CERP funds provided by Congress.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 16, 2014
Accession Number
AD1140306

Entities

People

  • John Sopko

Organizations

  • Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Agreements
  • Best Practices
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • Governments
  • International Security
  • Law
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Commanders
  • Money
  • United States Central Command
  • Weapon Systems

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  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Military Engineering.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies