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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 ...

Homeland Security: Enhanced National Guard Readiness for Civil Support Missions May Depend on DOD's Implementation of the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act

APR 2008

60 pages

Authors: Janet A. St. Laurent; Margaret Morgan; Renee Brown; Eugene Gray; Nicole Harms; Shvetal Khanna; Stephanie Moriarty; Jay Smale; John Van Schaik; Suzanne Wren; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

The high use of National Guard (Guard) forces for overseas missions has raised questions about its ability to support civil authorities in the event of a catastrophic incident. GAO was asked to assess two alternatives for providing funding and authority specifically for the Guard's civil support missions. Congress subsequently enacted a new approach for the Guard's civil support needs, which GAO also included in this assessment. GAO determined the following: ...