Combating Terrorism: Spending on Governmentwide Programs Requires Better Management and Coordination : Report to Congressional RequestersThe Office, 1997 - 40 pages |
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Accounting Office Washington activities to combat adequacy of funding allocated antiterrorism programs Aviation Security budget requests bureaus combat terrorism Congress counterterrorism and antiterrorism counterterrorism programs crosscutting program Department of Defense Department of Energy develop coordinated goals DOD Support DOD's draft report Economy Act efforts to combat ensure Estimated Spending executive agencies Explosives Detection Federal Aviation Administration fiscal year 1997 Franklin D functions funding requests GAO's governmentwide priorities Ike Skelton implementation individual agencies interagency coordination International Terrorism issues John Glenn Key Agencies legislation Management and Budget National Security Analysis Office of Management overseas performance measures policy and strategy President Presidential Decision Directive priorities for combating programs and activities programs to combat provide nonreimbursable support reimbursement Results Act principles Richard Davis Director risk of terrorist Security and International Spending for Key terrorism-related activities terrorism-related funding terrorist attack threat and risk U.S. efforts Unclassified Terrorism-related Programs
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Page 13 - ... Prioritize and Target Program Investments (GAO/NSIAD-98-74, Apr. 9, 1998). Many challenges are ahead as we continue to see the need for (1) govemmentwide priorities to be set, (2) agencies' programs, activities, and requirements to be analyzed in relation to those priorities, and (3) resources to be allocated based on the established priorities and assessments of the threat and risk of terrorist attack. As an example of my last point, if an agency spends $20 million without a risk assessment...
Page 26 - Mr. Richard Davis (Director, National Security Analysis National Security and International Affairs Division US General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Dear Mr. Davis: This is the Department of Defense (DoD) response to the General Accounting Office (GAO) draft report, "COMBAT AIR POWER- REASSESSING PLANS TO MODERNIZE INTERDICTION CAPABILITIES COULD SAVE BILLIONS," dated December 22, 1995 (GAO code 701039), OSD Case 1075.
Page 10 - The act's emphasis on results implies that federal programs contributing to the same or similar outcomes should be closely coordinated to ensure that goals are consistent and program efforts are mutually reinforcing.
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Page 40 - Nov. 16, 1992). Nuclear Security: Weak Internal Controls Hamper Oversight of DOE's Security Program (GAO/RCED-92-146, June 29, 1992).
Page 7 - Key Interagency Management Functions Are Not Clearly Required or Performed There is no interagency mechanism to centrally manage funding requirements and requests to ensure an efficient, focused governmentwide application of federal funds to numerous agencies' programs designed to combat terrorism. Given the high national priority and magnitude of this nearly $7-billion federal effort, sound management principles dictate that (1) governmentwide requirements be prioritized to meet the objectives of...
Page 7 - Energy estimated spending accounted for 76 percent of the unclassified fiscal year 1997 terrorism-related funds, other agencies' resources dedicated to combating terrorism have significantly increased in recent years. For example, FAA resources tripled (in current dollars) during fiscal years 1994-97, and FBI resources increased five-fold. FAA increased equipment purchases and aviation security operations, and the FBI nearly tripled the authorized staffing level dedicated to combating terrorism,...
Page 7 - December 1997, it says there is no interagency mechanism to centrally manage funding requirements and requests to see if they should focus governmentwide application funds to numerous agencies programs designed to combat terrorism.
Page 3 - ... established funding priorities for terrorism-related programs within or across agencies' individual budgets or ensured that individual agencies' stated requirements had been validated against threat and risk criteria before budget requests were submitted to the Congress. Because govemmentwide priorities have not been established and funding requirements have not necessarily been validated based on an analytically sound assessment of the threat and risk of terrorist attack, there is no basis to...
Page 2 - Managing for Results: The Statutory Framework for Improving Federal Management and Effectiveness (GAO/T-GGD/AiMD-97-144, June 24, 1997...