Foreign Military Sales Financial Oversight of the Use of Overhead Funds Needs Strengthening

Abstract

The Department of Defense has a program to oversee U.S. military sales to foreign governments. DOD charges foreign government purchasers fees to help cover the cost of its military sales program. We looked at DODs financial oversight of these fees. We found that DOD lacks reliable data on how it uses the fees to cover the program's operating expenses, including costs for paying program staff and for ensuring that contractors have complied with their contract requirements. We made 11 recommendations to improve DOD's financial oversight, such as to collect reliable data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 30, 2018
Accession Number
AD1156382

Entities

People

  • Thomas Melito

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Export Controls
  • Federal Budgets
  • Financial Management
  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Military Personnel
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.