Department of State's Demining Activities in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by Afghan Technical Consultants

Abstract

This letter transmits the results of our audit of costs incurred by Afghan Technical Consultants (ATC) for five Department of State (State) grants to execute demining activities in various regions in Afghanistan.1 The audit covered the period April 1, 2007, through August 31, 2012, and was performed by Crowe Horwath. It covered $13,422,356 in expenditures. ATCs program called for conducting operations with specially trained mine detection dogs from 2007 to 2012. ATC reported that the program cleared over 2 million square meters of land by locating and destroying antipersonnel mines, unexploded ordnance, fragments, and anti-tank mines. ATC trained human demining teams as well as dogs and employed more than 30 individuals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 03, 2013
Accession Number
AD1140347

Entities

Organizations

  • Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Accounting
  • Afghanistan
  • Agreements
  • Anti-Personnel Mines
  • Anti-Tank Mines
  • Auditing
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Costs
  • Deficiencies
  • Department Of State
  • Detection
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Indirect Costs
  • Law
  • Local Governments
  • Materials
  • Money
  • Procurement
  • Risk
  • Standards
  • Unexploded Ammunition
  • United States
  • Vehicles

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  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering