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ID-78-27 1 (1978-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaxco0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DCCUM2WT RESUME! 05713 - rB11460941 Manaqemenit at Security Assist-' ce Programs Overseas Needs To Be Improved. ID-78-27; B-165731. April ;1, 1978. 25 pp. + 2 appendices (2 pp.). Report to the Cunqress; by Elmer B. 5taats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: International Economic and Military Programs (600). Contact: international Div. Budqet Function: National Defense: Department of Defense - Military (except procurement & contracts) 4051). Orqanization Concarned: oepartment of Defense; Department of State. Congressional Belevance: House Committee on Interzational Relations; Senate Lommittee on Foreign Relations; Cong..ess. Authority: International Security Assistance and irms Export Control Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-329). International Security Assistance Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-92). Fczeign Assistance Act of 1961. Military Assistance Advisory Groufs (HAAGs) ha% operated in foreign countries for many years to provide operational and tactical advisory and training assistance to host-country armed forces and to administer the grant aid proqrap. The International Security Assistance Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-92) specified changes in the operaticns of the qroups to improve the overall management of the programs. Findinqs/Conclusions: Public Law 95-92 had little, if any, direct effect on the scope aLd type of HAAG operaticns or on the direction and supervision provided by the Chiefs of U.S. Diplomatic Missions. The staff levels of certain groups uere reduced, but their duties were unchanged. The Cepartments cf State and Defense have not defined the primary functions to be perrormed by MAAGs under the act or the duties and tasks for each function. Many of the tasks being performed by the NAAGs are procedural in nature and could be assumed ky the host country, performed by security assistance .rogram managers in the United Itates, or performed by teams sent to the ccumtry for limited periods. Public Law 95-92 im.csed a manpower ceiling on the rumber of military personnel that could be assigned overseas to security assistance functions. Two of the 15 MAAGs acbievel apparent compliance by merely transferring Fersonnel to technical assistance field teams which are not subject to the ceilinq. Recommendations: The Secretaries of State and Defense should: define the tasks to be performed fcr each primary function under ttie act; make manpower surveys to determine optimal staffing and to identify tasks that must be performed inccuntry by MAAG personnel; transfer all tasks which do not have to ve performed inccuntry by HAAG personnel to host-country personnel or State-side program maniagers; submit Flans for eliminatinq tasks performed incountry by HAAG Fersonnel to the Conqress for its approval; reemphasize to host countries the

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