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Defense Budget: Fiscal Year 2000 Contingency Operations Costs and Funding

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 6, 2000
Report No. NSIAD-00-168
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Summary:

The Defense Department estimates that all ongoing contingency operations in fiscal year 2000 will cost $4.7 billion, with operations in the Balkans and Southwest Asia accounting for more than 99 percent of that amount. GAO has two concerns about how the military identifies incremental costs in support of contingency operations. First, the Air Force and the Navy's Atlantic and Pacific Fleets use different methodologies to calculate their costs for flying hours in support of contingencies. DOD's regulation on costs for contingency operations permits different methodologies, but this practice results in different reimbursement rates for similar levels of activities. Second, the Air Force is seeking $47.2 million in the supplemental appropriation request to repair or restore the infrastructure used during contingency operations in Kosovo. No other military service is asking for similar reimbursement in its budget request.

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