Military Training: DOD Met Annual Reporting Requirements and Continued to Improve Its Sustainable Ranges Report

Abstract : As U.S. forces draw down from Afghanistan and home training is expanded, the competition for training ranges may also increase. Section 366 of the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (as amended) required DOD to submit a comprehensive plan to address training constraints caused by limitations on the use of military lands, marine areas, and airspace available in the United States and overseas for training, and provide annual progress reports on these efforts through 2018. The act also requires GAO to submit annual evaluations of DOD s reports to Congress within 90 days of receiving them from DOD. In this report, GAO examined (1) whether DOD s 2013 Sustainable Ranges Report met the legislative requirements; and (2) whether DOD acted on GAO previous recommendations to improve its submissions. GAO is not making any recommendations in this report. In commenting on this report, DOD stated that it agrees in general with the report.