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and Southwest Asia operations in 1992 and 1991, respectively, through September
1999, DOD has reported about $19 billion in incremental costs .'
To develop budget estimates, DOD had to make assumptions about the number of
personnel that would be involved in contingency operations, the level of activity of
these operations, and their duration. In a number of instances, fiscal year 1999
estimates exceeded reported costs because of changes in the size and duration of
operations, particularly the Kosovo bombing campaign.
To prepare for deployment to the Balkans, Army units conduct mission rehearsal
exercises. When a unit is notified that it will deploy, it revises its annual training
plan. For example, to prepare for its August 1999 deployment to Bosnia, the Army's
10" Mountain Division cancelled some of its planned training, such as training in a
jungle environment, and substituted specific training geared to the type of tasks it
would perform in Bosnia. This training included an exercise designed to practice the
tasks the division will perform in Bosnia, which involved 6,405 people from the
division and associated units at a cost of $9.9 million.
DOD spent $239,000 between fiscal year 1999 and fiscal year 2000 to date in support
of the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial initiative. These funds were drawn
from funds used to facilitate DOD's participation in the Partnership for Peace
program.
SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
To obtain the information contained in this report we conducted work at the Office of
the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Departments of the Army and Air Force,
the Army's Forces Command, and the headquarters of the 1(' Mountain Division in
Fort Drum, New York. We also reviewed contingency operations cost reports, DOD
budget documents for fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001, Forces Command and 1(d
Mountain Division cost data and training plans, Joint Staff training policy guidance,
and the formal agreement generated by the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial
initiative.
We reviewed this information with DOD officials and made changes where
appropriate. As requested, we will continue to review the cost and funding of
ongoing contingency operations. As work progresses, we will keep you apprised of
our results. We performed our work in January and February 2000 in accordance
with generally accepted government auditing standards.
'As used in this report, "incremental costs" are those costs that would not have been incurred if it
were not for the operation. It should be recognized that DOD's financial systems cannot reliably
determine costs and only the total obligations are captured by DOD's accounting systems. The
services use various management information systems to identify incremental obligations and to
estimate costs. Although we use the term costs throughout this report as a convenience, we are
actually referring to DOD's obligation of funds.GAO/NSIAD-00-100R Defense Budget
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