Exhibit 249

Defense Budget: Obligations of Overseas Contingency Operations Funding for Operation and Maintenance Base Requirements, GAO-18-202R

Exhibit 249 · Audit report

Defense Budget: Obligations of Overseas Contingency Operations Funding for Operation and Maintenance Base Requirements, GAO-18-202R

On occasion, Congress has directed that O&M OCO appropriations be used to support base requirements.

The FY2016 NDAA authorized $9.1 billion of O&M OCO funds for base requirements; in FY2015 Congress directed $1 billion of O&M OCO to readiness. GAO notes DoD concurred with its 2017 recommendations but had taken no steps to implement them.

Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date: 10 January 2018
Quoted from: p. 1
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-202r
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding DEF-5.3: Primary record CBO estimated that in each year since 2006 more than $50 billion, on average, of funding designated for Overseas Contingency Operations supported enduring activities, and GAO found that the share DoD itself considers non-war rose from about 4 percent in fiscal year 2010 to 12 percent in fiscal year 2015.
Finding DEF-5.4: Primary record In January 2017 GAO reported that DoD had an internal estimate of $20 to $30 billion in enduring costs funded through OCO and had not finalized it or reported it outside the department.