Exhibit 248

Overseas Contingency Operations: OMB and DOD Should Revise the Criteria for Determining Eligible Costs and Identify the Costs Likely to Endure Long Term, GAO-17-68

Exhibit 248 · Audit report

Overseas Contingency Operations: OMB and DOD Should Revise the Criteria for Determining Eligible Costs and Identify the Costs Likely to Endure Long Term, GAO-17-68

Further, the amount of OCO appropriations DOD considers as non-war increased from about 4 percent in fiscal year 2010 to 12 percent in fiscal year 2015.

DoD's internal estimate of enduring costs funded in OCO was $20 to $30 billion, as much as 46 percent of the FY2017 OCO request, not finalized or reported outside DoD because statutory caps limited base-budget increases. GAO recommended revised criteria and a reliable enduring-cost estimate; DoD concurred with the first and partially with the second.

Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date: January 2017
Quoted from: Highlights, What GAO Found
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-17-68
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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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.