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Author: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Title: Drug Control: DOD Should Improve Its Oversight of the National Guard Counterdrug Program

Summary: Why GAO Did This Study -- Since 1989, DOD has received billions of dollars to fund the National Guard's participation in a counterdrug program focused on domestic drug interdiction activities. DOD received $261 million for this program in fiscal year 2018. This program provides military support to assist state, local, and tribal law enforcement organizations with counterdrug activities and operates in 54 states and territories across the United States. Senate Report 115-125 included a provision for GAO to evaluate the National Guard counterdrug program. This report (1) evaluates the extent to which DOD has strategy and implementing guidance for the National Guard counterdrug program, and (2) assesses DOD's processes to approve states’ counterdrug plans and distribute funding to the program, among other things. GAO reviewed DOD's counterdrug strategy and guidance; DOD funding and personnel data; and its processes to distribute funding. What GAO Recommends -- GAO is making a total of five recommendations, including, among others, that DOD issue a strategic framework that addresses current drug threats, the National Guard issue guidance with detailed procedures on how states should administer the program, DOD assess the revised process for approving state plans, and the National Guard incorporate DOD's strategic counter-narcotics priorities into its funding distribution process. DOD concurred with GAO's recommendations.

Details: Washington, DC: GAO, 2019. 70p.

Source: Internet Resource: GAO-19-27: Accessed February 15, 2019 at: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696597.pdf

Year: 2019

Country: United States

URL: https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696597.pdf

Shelf Number: 154626

Keywords:
Counter-Narcotics
Counterdrug program
Drug Control
Drug Control Policy
Drug Trafficking
National Guard