Bosnia: Cost Estimating Has Improved, but Operational Changes Will Affect Current Estimates.
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DOD) has about 10,500 troops deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter referred to as Bosnia) and surrounding countries as of July 1997 to assist in implementing the Dayton Peace Agreement. U.S. forces are part of a multilateral coalition under North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command called the Stabilization Force, a follow-on mission to the original NATO Implementation Force. DOD estimates that the incremental costs of its participation in these NATO coalition forces will be about $6.5 billion for fiscal years 1996-98. We previously reported on DOD's estimated costs for U.S. participation in the Implementation Force and the reasons why costs were higher than originally estimated. Because of Congress' continued interest in this matter, we (1) reviewed DOD'S process for estimating the costs of contingency operations to determine whether the process has been improved since our prior reviews and (2) determined the basis for the fiscal years 1997-98 cost estimates and the impact operational changes could have on these estimates.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 28, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA327790
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office