| Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased While Savings Estimates Have Decreased Since Fiscal Year 2009 |
13-Nov-2009 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Susan Ditto; Gregory Marchand; Charles Perdue; Laura Talbott; Vijay Barnabas; John Beauchamp; Brandon Jones; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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 | The Department of Defense's (DOD) cost estimates to implement recommendations from the most recent Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round have steadily increased each budget year since 2005. This BRAC round is the fifth such round undertaken by DOD since 1988 and, by our assessment, it is the biggest, most complex, and costliest BRAC round ever. With this round, DOD plans to execute hundreds of BRAC actions affecting over 800 ... |
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| Military Training: DOD Needs a Strategic Plan and Better Inventory and Requirements Data to Guide Development of Language Skills and Regional Proficiency |
Jun-2009 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory Marchand; Chad Reed; MacKenzie Cooper; Gabrielle A Carrington; John Bumgarner; Patricia Lentini; Catherine H Brown; Jay Smale; Kathryn Smith; Joanne Landesman; Sharon Pickup; Traye Smith; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Violent extremist movements and ongoing military operations have prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to place greater emphasis on improving language and regional proficiency, which includes cultural awareness. GAO was asked to assess the extent to which DoD has done the following: (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts, and (2) obtained the information it needs to identify potential language and regional proficiency ... |
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| Financial Management: DOD Needs to Clarify Its General Gift Fund Policies to Provide for Effective Oversight |
27-May-2009 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Terry Richardson; Laura Durland; Bonita Anderson; Gregory Marchand; Stephanie Moriarty; Mae Jones; Brain J Lepore; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| From fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2008, the military services received about $295 million in monetary and nonmonetary gifts from individuals and organizations wishing to donate gifts to the Department of Defense (DoD). Section 2601(a) of Title 10, U.S. Code, is a long-standing authority under which the secretaries overseeing DoD, the military services, and the Coast Guard may accept a gift on the condition that the gift be used ... |
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| Defense Management: DOD Needs to Improve Program Management, Policy, and Testing to Enhance Ability to Field Operationally Useful Non-lethal Weapons |
Apr-2009 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
Rebecca Shea; Rae Ann Sapp; Sally Newman; David F Keefer; James Driggins; Grace A Coleman; Scott Clayton; Sandra Burrell; Joseph Kirschbaum; Davi M D'Agostino; Gregory Marchand; Jena Whitley; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Nonlethal weapons (NLW) provide an alternative when lethal force is undesirable. The Department of Defense (DoD) defines NLW as those that are explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment. DoD created the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program in 1996 to have centralized responsibility for the development of NLW and coordinate requirements among the ... |
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| Operation Iraqi Freedom: Actions Needed to Enhance DOD Planning for Reposturing of U.S. Forces from Iraq |
01-Sep-2008 |
86 pages |
| Authors:
Cheryl Weissman; Tristan T To; John J Marzullo; Guy A Lofaro; David A Schmitt; William M Solis; Katherine Lenane; John Lee; Gregory Marchand; Christopher Turner; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| While the pace and overall extent of reposturing in Iraq has yet to be determined, various defense commands began planning for reposturing in fall 2007, and in May 2008 DOD began coordinating these individual planning efforts to develop a logistical framework based on three key assumptions. According to DOD officials, initial planning efforts were uncoordinated because the three organizations undertaking them the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Army Materiel Command(AMC), ... |
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| Small Business Innovation Research: Agencies Need to Strengthen Efforts to Improve the Completeness, Consistency, and Accuracy of Awards Data |
OCT 2006 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Anu K. Mittal; Cheryl Williams; Bernice H. Dawson; Vondalee R. Hunt; Marcus L. Oliver; Nancy Crothers; Grant Mallie; Gregory Marchand; Rebecca Shea; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was created to increase the use of small businesses to meet federal research needs and commercialize the results of this research. To monitor the program, the Small Business Administration (SBA) requires participating agencies to provide, in a standard format, specific data on all SBIR awards they make. SBA then compiles these data into a database known as Tech-Net. Congress also required SBA to ... |
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