Warfighter Support: DOD Policy and Implementation Plan for Reconstitution of Forces
Abstract
This report summarizes our work to date in response to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, Pub. L. No. 113-66. Section 324 of this act requires GAO to review the Department of Defense (DOD) Strategic Policy and Implementation Plan for the Retrograde, Reconstitution, and Replacement of Operating Forces. The law further requires that not later than 120 days after the enactment of the act, GAO is to submit a report to the defense committees describing the findings of such a review and describing the progress DOD has made toward meeting the goals of the plan. Our objectives were to describe the extent to which DOD has (1) established a policy for retrograde, reconstitution, and replacement of operating forces as described in Section 324, and (2) established an implementation plan for that policy as described in Section 324. To conduct this work, we reviewed previous GAO work concerning retrograde, reconstitution, and replacement of operating forces. We also reviewed relevant DOD documents and service guidance. We contacted the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, designated by DOD as responsible for the submission of the Strategic Policy and Implementation Plan for the Retrograde, Reconstitution, and Replacement of Operating Forces to the congressional defense committees, to discuss DOD s progress in developing the policy and plan. We conducted this performance audit from March 2014 through April 2014 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 23, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA599575
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office