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Defense Budget: Visibility and Accountability of O&M Fund Movements

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 29, 2000
Report No. T-NSIAD-00-98
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Summary:

Congress has raised concerns about the extent to which the military has moved funds that directly affect readiness, such as those that finance training, to pay for real property maintenance and base operations. GAO found that from fiscal years 1994 through 1999, the military reported obligations that were $7.1 billion (eight percent) more for real property maintenance and base operations than the $88.6 billion initially designated by Congress. Nearly three-fourths of the $2.7 billion increase from fiscal year 1996 to 1999 went for base operations, with the rest going to real property maintenance. For fiscal years 1994 through 1999, the services' movement of funds in and out of unit training varied. The Army and the Air Force have moved unit training funds to base operations and real property maintenance. This testimony summarizes the February 2000 report, GAO/NSIAD-00-87.

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