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Author
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Selective Service System is an independent agency in the executive branch. Its responsibilities include maintaining a database that will enable it to provide manpower to DOD in a national emergency, managing a program for conscientious objectors to satisfy their obligations through a program of civilian service, and ensuring the capability to register and induct medical personnel if directed to do so. Section 597 of the National Defense Authorization...
7) Insider threats: DOD should improve information sharing and oversight to protect U.S. installations
Author
Publisher
United States Government Accountability Office
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The attacks at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, and at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., on September 16, 2013, drew nationwide attention to insider threats at DOD installations. DOD defines an insider threat as the threat that an insider will use her or his authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly, to do harm to the security of the United States. House report 113-446 included a provision that GAO review DOD's antiterrorism and force protection...
8) Defense acquisitions: assessments of selected weapon programs : report to congressional committees
Author
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Language
English
Description
This is GAO's seventh annual assessment of selected Department of Defense (DOD) weapon programs. The report examines how well DOD is planning and executing its weapon acquisition programs, an area that has been on GAO's high-risk list since 1990. This year's report is in response to the mandate in the joint explanatory statement to the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009. The report includes (1) an analysis...
Author
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Department of Defense (DOD) prepositions equipment at strategic locations around the world in order to field combat-ready forces in days, rather than the weeks it would take if equipment had to be moved from the United States to the locations of conflicts. DOD's prepositioned stock programs support the National Military Strategy and are an important part of its overall strategic mobility framework. Prepositioned materiel and equipment have played...
19) DOD health care: domestic health care for female servicemembers : report to congressional addressees
Author
Publisher
United States Government Accountability Office
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English