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GAO-10-575R 1 (2010-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaansk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AGA ~GA 0 4 A ontabity I Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 April 30, 2010 Congressional Committees Subject: Quadrennial Defense Review: 2010 Report Addressed Many but Not All Required Items The Department of Defense (DOD) is facing the complex challenge of simultaneously supporting continuing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and preparing its military forces to meet emerging threats of the new security environment. Congress appropriated $626 billion for DOD's fiscal year 2010 budget and to support current operations. As we have emphasized in previous reports, the federal government is facing serious long-term fiscal challenges, and DOD may confront increased competition over the next decade for federal discretionary funds.' The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the fourth since 1997 and the second since the start of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, articulates DOD's strategic plan to rebalance capabilities in order to prevail in current operations and develop capabilities to meet future threats. The QDR acknowledged that the country faces fiscal challenges and that DOD must make difficult trade-offs where warranted. Also, the QDR results are intended to guide the services in making resource allocation decisions when developing future budgets. DOD is required by law to conduct a comprehensive examination of the national defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the defense program and policies of the United States, every 4 years, with a view toward determining and expressing the nation's defense strategy and establishing a defense program for the next 20 years.2 In addition to the 14 reporting requirements specified in the 1999 legislation that established the standing requirement for the QDR in the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007,3 Congress added 2 new reporting elements to be included in subsequent QDRs, including the requirement to report on the specific capabilities needed to achieve the strategic and warfighting objectives. The department submitted its report on the fourth 1 GAO, The Federal Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2010 Update, GAO-10-468SP (Washington, D.C.: March 2010); 21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government, GAO-05-325SP (Washington, D.C.: February 2005). Also see our related products list at the end of this report. 2 The first QDR was completed in response to section 923 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, Pub. L. No. 104-201 (1996). Congress created a continuing requirement for DOD to conduct a QDR every 4 years in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-65 § 901 (1999), codified at 10 U.S.C.§ 118. 3 Pub. L. No. 109-364, §1031 (2006). GAO-10-575R Quadrennial Defense Review Page I

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