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GAO-07-372R 1 (2007-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauvs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: S=GAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 March 8, 2007 The Honorable Robert M. Gates The Secretary of Defense Subject: Military Personnel: DMDC Data on Officers' Commissioning Programs is Insufficiently Reliable and Needs to be Corrected Dear Secretary Gates: The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is a key Department of Defense (DOD) support organization that, among other things, generates reports for defense organizations such as the military services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Staff. External organizations such as GAO and federally funded research and development centers also rely on DMDC for quantitative data and analyses pertaining to a wide variety of issues, including the numbers of DOD personnel in specified occupations or demographic groups, servicemembers' attitudes, and compensation.' DMDC reports to DOD's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. In describing its databases, DMDC states that it maintains the largest archive of personnel, manpower, training, and financial data in DOD. It also notes that the personnel data are broad in scope and extend back to the early 1970s covering all services, all components of the total force (active duty, guard, reserve, and civilian), and all phases of the personnel life cycle (accession, separation, and retirement). DMDC data serve as the basis for DOD's annual Population Representation in the Military Forces which, among other things, provides information on the numbers of officers who were accessed into the military from each service's various commissioning programs: military academies, Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), Officer Candidate Schools (OCS: for the Army, Navy, and Air Force) and Officer Training School (OTS: for the Air Force). On January 19, 2007, we issued a report on officer accessions, retention, and foreign language training.2 The purpose of this report is to bring to your attention reliability 'For example, see GAO, Military Personnel: Reporting Additional Servicemember Demographics Could Enhance Congressional Oversight, GAO-05-952 (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 22, 2005) and Military Personnel: More DOD Actions Needed to Address Servicemembers' Personal Financial Management Issues, GAO-05-348 (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 26, 2005). 2 GAO, Military Personnel: Strategic Plan Needed to Address Army's Emerging Officer Accession and Retention Challenges, GAO-07-224 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 19, 2007). GAO-07-372R Officer Data

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