Financial Management: DoD Antideficiency Act Reporting and Disciplinary Process
Abstract
Who Should Read This Report and Why? Senior DoD managers who are responsible for preventing or investigating Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations or for disciplining ADA violators should read this report. Background. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer requested that we review the timeliness of the Defense Department's violation reporting and the appropriateness of the discipline administered for ADA violations. The ADA prohibits Federal employees from spending the Government's money in any way other than that directed by Congress. Spending more money than Congress appropriates, or spending the money before Congress appropriates it, violates the ADA. When this happens, the head of the agency where the violation occurred must notify the President and the Congress. DoD Regulations require that ADA violations be processed (investigated and reported) within 12 months of discovery. Results. The Military Departments and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer did not process ADA cases within 12 months. For the 42 cases reported in FY 2002 and FY 2003, the average time required to conduct the investigation and report the ADA violation to the President and Congress was 49 months for the Army, 43 months for Navy, and 63 months for the Air Force. Case information should have been processed more efficiently, and legal reviews took too long.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 14, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA432815
Entities
People
- Amber M. Bell
- James L. Kornides
- Kelly E. Prillaman
- Lisa S. Sherck
- Mark Starinsky
- Paul J. Granetto
- Rebecca J. Thompson
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense