Overseas contingency operations
Subtitle: comparison of the Department of Defense's overseas contingency operations funding requests for fiscal years 2010 and 2011
By: Sharon L. Pickup
Contributors: Borseth, Ann; United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Appropriations and expenditures; Evaluation; Cost of War; United States. Department of Defense; United States
Other titles: Comparison of the Department of Defense's overseas contingency operations funding requests for fiscal years 2010 and 2011
Notes: Chiefly slides.

Title from p.1 screen (GAO, viewed July 7, 2010).

"July 6, 2010."

Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been engaged in domestic and overseas military operations in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO). These operations include Operation Iraqi Freedom, which focuses principally on Iraq, and Operation Enduring Freedom, which focuses principally on Afghanistan, but also include operations in the Horn of Africa, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Obtaining an accurate picture of OCO costs is of critical importance given the need to evaluate trade-offs and make more effective use of defense dollars in light of the nation's long-term fiscal challenges. In the past, we have reported on the need for DOD to become more disciplined in its approach to developing plans and budgets, including building more OCO costs into the base defense budget. Under the Comptroller General's authority, GAO evaluated: 1. The fiscal year 2011 OCO budget request by comparing it to the fiscal year 2010 OCO appropriation and the fiscal year 2010 OCO supplemental request. 2. The assumptions DOD used to create the fiscal year 2010 OCO supplemental request and the fiscal year 2011 OCO budget request. 3. The extent to which the assumptions used for creating the fiscal year 2010 OCO supplemental request and the fiscal year 2011 OCO budget request are sensitive to operational changes. 4. The extent to which DOD moved certain costs of ongoing contingency operations from its OCO budget request into its base budget request.

"GAO-10-889R."

Includes bibliographical references.

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