Drug control, additional performance information is needed to oversee the National Guard's state counterdrug program : report to Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate.
Publication Info.
[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2015.
1 online resource (iii, 40 pages) : color illustrations
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Note
"October 2015."
"GAO-16-133."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Note
Online resource, PDF version; title from cover (GAO web site, viewed Jan. 9, 2017).
Summary
Since 1989 the National Guard has received hundreds of millions of dollars to help enhance the effectiveness of state-level counterdrug efforts by providing military support to assist interagency partners with their counterdrug activities. The program funds the drug interdiction priorities of each state Governor; counterdrug-related training to interagency partners at five counterdrug schools; and state-level counterthreat finance investigations, all of which are part of DOD's broader counterdrug efforts. This report: (1) identifies the changes in funding for the program since fiscal year 2004, and (2) assesses the extent to which performance information is used to evaluate the program's activities. GAO recommends that DOD (1) identify additional information needed to evaluate the performance of state programs and oversee counterdrug schools' training; and (2) subsequently collect and use performance information to help inform funding distribution decisions to state programs and to conduct oversight of the training offered by the counterdrug schools.