Opportunities to Improve Controls over Department of Defense's Overseas Contingency Operations Cost Reporting
Abstract
From September 2001 through January 2010, Congress provided about $1.023 trillion in supplemental and annual appropriations in response to Department of Defense (DOD) requests for funding to support overseas contingency operations (OCO).1 In March 2010, DOD reported obligations2 of about $825 billion attributed to OCO for the period September 2001 through January 2010.3 DOD uses available cost-related information, 4 along with other financial information, to evaluate OCO trends, formulate OCO funding requests, and monitor the costs of overseas operations. In addition, Congress considers this information in its deliberations on DOD requests for additional OCO funding. Our prior reviews have found the financial information in DOD's monthly OCO reports to be of questionable reliability.5 For example, we identified problems in DOD's processes for recording and reporting obligations, such as not including all OCO costs and the lack of a systematic process for ensuring that data are correctly entered into those systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 27, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA522298
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office