DOD Bulk Fuel

Budgeting for Bulk Fuel and Other Operation and Maintenance Activities Gao ID: T-NSIAD-96-208 July 30, 1996

The bulk fuel issues discussed in this testimony may be symptomatic of a larger issue involving how the military services estimate requirements for operation and maintenance activities. Past GAO work has shown that the Defense Department repeatedly estimates that it needs more money than it obligates for some operation and maintenance activities. This testimony, which draws on the findings of a March 1996 report (GAO/NSIAD-96-96), addresses (1) the military services' use of operation and maintenance funds and their latitude in obligating the money, (2) specific overestimating of funds needed for bulk fuel, and (3) bulk fuel as one example of the services' overestimating their needs for some activities within the operation and maintenance account.



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