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Land Warfare & Munitions Division, Defense Systems, Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD (AT&L) officials stated that, in
November 2004, they convened a conference of the military services, combatant
commanders, and DOD organizations who participate in the munitions requirements
process to determine what had to be done to establish linkage between the
combatant commanders' needs and the munitions purchased by the military services.
This conference resulted in a decision to, again, revise DOD Instruction 3000.4 to
include more specificity as to when and why combatant commanders must be
involved in the munitions requirements determination process and to more closely
align munitions requirements to combatant commanders' operational war plans.
Inadequate Linkage Continues to Exist
Despite the department's efforts to establish linkage between combatant
commanders' needs and purchasing decisions of the military services, inadequate
linkage continues to exist. During our assessment of prepositioned munitions
supporting the operational war plan of USFK, we found that specific requirements
and timelines established by DOD Instruction 3000.4, as revised in 2003, were not met
by DOD organizations. We found that not all organizations complied with the
Instruction's requirements in developing the Fiscal Year 2005 munitions budget
submission. For example
* The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) did not coordinate with combatant
commanders prior to developing threat reports. According to USFK officials,
updated intelligence information was not included.
* DIA Threat Reports needed by the combatant commanders to produce Phased
Threat Distributions3 (PTD) were late. According to USFK officials, they had
to develop PTD's on prior year threat reports.
* Only the Air Force coordinated with USFK prior to modeling munitions
requirements, the other services developed their requirements independent of
USFK involvement.
* None of the services coordinated with USFK on the results of their individual
modeling processes prior to development of POM submissions. As a result,
there were no assurances that combatant commander munitions needs were
met.
DOD officials stated that the specific timeline and other requirements were not met
because formal communication links needed to ensure compliance were not
established.
DOD is currently revising the Instruction again. According to DOD officials, a new
element requires combatant commanders to present and defend operational war plan
3 Phased Threat Distribution allocates targets to each military service and allied forces where political
commitments exist.GAO-05-765R Defense Management
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United States. Government Accountability Office. Defense Management: Munitions Requirements and Combatant Commander's Needs Still Require Linkage, text, August 12, 2005; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc302005/m1/3/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.