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GAO-19-333R 1 (2019-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvrn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 March 25, 2019 The Honorable James M. Inhofe Chairman The Honorable Jack Reed Ranking Member Committee on Armed Services United States Senate The Honorable Adam Smith Chairman The Honorable Mac Thornberry Ranking Member Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Defense Budget: Fiscal Year 2018 Obligations of Operation and Maintenance Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations According to the Department of Defense (DOD), since September 2001, Congress has appropriated approximately $1.8 trillion to DOD for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.1 Since fiscal year 2010, DOD has submitted separate requests for both base and OCO funding as part of its annual budget request to Congress.2 Congress separately appropriates amounts for both base and OCO activities into the same appropriation accounts, such as Operation & Maintenance (O&M) accounts or the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund account, and directs how funds are to be spent by designating specific amounts at the activity level in conference reports or in explanatory statements accompanying annual appropriations acts. In enclosure I, we include the status of our prior recommendations from recent reports related to DOD's use of OCO funds. 1 A contingency operation is a military operation that either (1) is designated by the Secretary of Defense as an operation in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions, operations, or hostilities against an enemy of the United States or against an opposing military force; or (2) results in the call or order to, or retention on, active duty of members of the uniformed services under certain statutory provisions or any other provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared by the President or Congress. 10 U.S.C. § 101(a)(13). 2 Prior to fiscal year 2010, requests for Global War on Terror and contingency operations funding were presented to Congress as requests for supplemental appropriations. Supplemental appropriations provided additional budget authority, usually in cases where the need for funds is too urgent to be postponed until enactment of a regular appropriations bill. GAO-19-333R Defense Budget Page 1

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