DOD Budget: Budgeting for Operation and Maintenance Activities

T-NSIAD-97-222 Published: Jul 22, 1997. Publicly Released: Jul 22, 1997.

Highlights

GAO discussed the military services' budgeting for operation and maintenance (O&M) activities, focusing on: (1) differences in the services' budget estimates and obligations for some activities within the services' O&M accounts; and (2) the flexibility the services have in obligating O&M funds and congressional visibility over the movement of those funds between various O&M activities.

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Budget and Spending

Budget administrationBudget authorityBudget obligationsBudgetingFuture budget projectionsMaintenance costsMilitary appropriationsMilitary budgetsPresidential budgetsReprogramming of appropriated funds