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NSIAD-98-216R 1 (1998-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacmnk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 3 C- United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 / 1 National Security and Interniational Affairs Division B-279578 August 14, 1998 Congressional Committees Subject 1999 DOD Budget DOD's Procurement and RDT&E Programs We examined the Department of Defense's (DOD) fiscal year 1999 budget request and prior years' appropriations for selected procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) programs. Our objectives were to identify potential reductions in the fiscal year 1999 budget request and potential rescissions to prior years' appropriations. This letter summarizes and updates information provided to your staffs from April through June 1998. It does not reflect any adjustments that may have been taken by the authorizing and appropriating committees during their reviews of the fiscal year 1999 defense budget request. We have not acknowledged these committees' actions because, in some cases, House and Senate actions have varied and conference actions are still pending. We identified opportunities to reduce fiscal year 1999 procurement and RDT&E requests by about $6.3 billion and to rescind prior years' procurement and RDT&E appropriations by $99 million. These reductions and/or rescissions can be made because schedules have slipped, requirements have changed, and issues affecting program funding have emerged since the budget request was developed. The potential rescissions include $75 million in prior years' appropriations for which obligational authority expires on September 30, 1998. DOD has requested congressional approval to reprogram some of these excess funds in its fiscal year 1998 omnibus reprogramming request. PROCUREMENT APPROPRIATIONS As shown in table 1, we identified about $5.2 billion in potential reductions to DOD's fiscal year 1999 procurement budget request and about $17.3 million in potential rescissions from DOD's prior years' procurement appropriations. GAO/NSIAD-98-216R 1999 Defense Budget

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