Appropriated Funds

Air Force Needs To Change Process for Funding Some Activities Gao ID: NSIAD-86-24 January 14, 1986

GAO reviewed the Air Force Systems Command's (AFCS) Aeronautical Systems Division's assessment of authorized programs to fund and account for certain development planning activities.

GAO believes that the use of assessments to fund these activities is not appropriate because: (1) there is no specific budget submission for these development planning activities and, as such, they are not justified to Congress; (2) the development planning costs are ultimately recorded as expenses of authorized and budgeted research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) programs from which the funds were taken, which misrepresents how the funds are actually spent; (3) many development planning projects had little relationship to the RDT&E programs from which the funds were taken; and (4) Air Force budget requests for the RDT&E programs providing the funds may be increased to accommodate anticipated assessments.

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