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What is the military department mission?
To organize, staff, train, and equip the American forces.
Who is the DOD principal as the CFO, acts as resource consultant and advisor to the Secretary as well as manager and arbiter of the Defense resource management process?
Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller
When was the Department of Defense established?
1949, National Security Act
Who is the principal defense advisor to the President and is responsible for the formulation of general policies
The SECDEF
Who is the principal adviser and asistant to the SECDEF for budgetary and fiscal matters?
USD (Comptroller) CFO
Who is the senior ranking member of the armed forces?
Joint Chief of Staff (Created be the Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986)
How does the operational chain of command flow for the military?
CJCS, transmitting to the COCOM the orders of the President.
What process is used by DOD to determine the dollar amount for programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the President's budget?
PPBE
Who are the NSC principal members?
President, V President, SECDEF, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Energy.
What is the process use to acquire, allocate, account for and, analyze personnel and financial resources for the DoD?
PPBE
Where does the NSS emerge from?
NSC
Who develops the NMS
CJCS
What is the systematic method established by the Joint Chiefs of Staff for assessings gaps in military joint war fighting capabilities and recommending solutions to resolve these gaps?
Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
What is the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and equipment associated with program approved by the SECDEF?
FYDP
The FYDP Contains
Prior year, current year, budget year, and the following four years for resources and three more years for force structure.
What are the two processes of the SECDEF Planning Process?
1. Defense Planning and Programming Guidance
2. Front End Assessement
What are the two products produced by the DPPG?
1. POM
2. Budget Estimates
What are major issues identified by the SECDEF and not included in the guidance in the DDPG
Front End Assessments
What is the final document at the end of the Planning Phase?
DPPG
Which document promulgates defense policy, strategy, force planning, resource planning and fiscal guidance?
DDPG
Who reviews the focus on the balance of capabilities of the forces contained in the POMs and report the result of the reivew to the SECDEF prior to the decisions in the RMD?
Chairmain's Program Assement (CPA)
What is the final design document in the Program Review
Resource Management Decision
What document reflects decisions of the SECDEF on the POM?
Resource Management Decsion
What document is submitted if there are unresolved issues during the Program Phase?
RMD
Name the process of services identifying certain pending decrements or unresolved issues?
Issue Resoloution
Who reviews and identifies all needs that cannot be met by current capabalities?
Joint Requirements Oversight Council
What system houses budget information and is organized in the appropriation structure and contains the information needed by the OMB to support the President's Budget?
CIS
Who chairs the Defense Aquitistion Board?
Undersecretary for Aquistion, Tech, and Logistics
What represents a link between PPBE and the acquistion process by assuring that requirements for new systems are consistent with the long range strategy of the DOD and the funding for the system in planned?
Defense Acquisition Board
What allows federal Agencies to incur obligations and make payments from the U.S treasury for a specified purpose?
Appropriation
What appropriated funds are use for functions, receptions, lunches, dinners, modest entertainment, and community relations activities.
Official Representative of Funds
What information is included in the FYDP database?
Program and element criteria
DOD program structure
What elements are included in the POM?
1) Allocation of resources
2) Alternative methods of accomplishing the mission
3) Objectives to be achieved
During the BES how many years of data is inclueded?
3 years
What is the product that displays the resource allocation decisions of the military department in reponse to and in accordance with DPPG?
POM
Which appropriation is so important that Congress has identified as one of the 12 appropriation?
MILCON
Which funding policy provides that only those funds required for work in a given fiscal year are to be included in the RDT&E budget for the fiscal year?
Incremental Funding Policy
Who may approve a contract that takes longer than 12 months but less than 18 months under the Incremental Funding Policy
Defense Agency Comptroller
Which funding policy requires to complete the delivery of each buy will be included in the budget request for the year of the planned contract award, regardless of the date the contracted item will be delivered?
Full Funding Policy
The authorization for the use of advance procurement funds limits the MDA flexibility so it should only be used when?
The economic benefits are significant and only with MDA concurrence.
Under the MYP, what is the minimum percentage expected to be saved ?
10%
What document is used to prioritize major issues and program requirements to the SECDEF, CJCS, and military Departments?
Integrated Prioirity Lists
Who are the senior advisors that oversee the development of guidance and review of program and budget proposals that can be resolved without the attention of the SECDEF?
Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Vice CJCS
O&M is composed of many apropriations titles. It can also include construction up to what amount?
$750,000
What is the directive to issue a grant to conduct a new study?
Presidential Study Directive
What information is entered into the FYDP database?
Program element Criteria
Codes and titles used
All approved definitions
The Deputy Secretary of Defense and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff co-chair this group?
Deputy Advisory Work Group
Who oversees the development of guidance and review of program and budget proposals that can be resolved without the attention of the SECDEF?
Deputy Advisory Work Group
What document is created by each COCOM that identifies major priorities and fiscal constraints?
Integrated Priority Lists
How many years of data is included in the Budget Estimate Submission?
3
Who is responsible for the central control and managment of the FYDP?
Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
What subsystem is associated with Multi Year Procurement under the full funding principle?
Economic Order Quanity
What falls under the full advance procurement exception?
Economic Order Quanity
Under the Life Cycle Appropriation, during a close account what can you do with a current appropriation?
Adjustments and payments are to be charged to any current appropriation account of the agency available for the same appropriation
What is the difference between Project and Economy Act Orders?
Project Order are work or services from another agency and can cross FY. Economy Orders are intragovernment orders
What are the criterias for a replacement contract?
Must be made without due delay after the termination of the orginial contract and the replacement shall be awarded on the same basis and scope and size to the orginal contract.
When foreign currencies are not specified in the foreign account what must happen?
Adjustment at the time of payment shall be supplemented with further adjustments made at year end.
The provisioned for reimbursabels and support activities include the following?
MOUs and MOAs
The cost associated with common-use infrastructure are non-reimbursable except :
Support provided solely for the benefit of one or more tenants
Supports that benefits a receiver without creating additional cost to the supplier includes:
Gate guards
No cost agreements with city, county, should be executed with?
MOA's and MOUs
When funds are shifted within the same appropriation it is called?
reprogramming
When funds are shifted between appropriation accounts?
transfer
The reprogramming of funds must be approved by?
Congress
The goal of the DWCF is?
to break even
Revolving fund selling prices established in the budget are?
fixed or stablized
What is the profit or loss call of the WCF?
Net Operating Result
Collections authorized or required to be credited to an appropriation account but not received before closing of the account shall be deposited where?
Miscellaneous receipt accout "Collections of Receivables from Canceled Accounts"
Non appropriated Funds are generated from where?
Sales of Goods and services.
What is the Necessary Expense Doctrine?
The Purpose part of PTA
What are the resources used to commence or increase the size of a working capital fund commonly referred to ?
Corpus of the revoloving fund
What are categories A MWR programs?
Mission Sustaining Programs. DoD APF is a minimum of 85%. This includes Physical fitness facilities, libraries, unit level sports.
What are categories B MWR programs?
Community Support programs. DoD APF is a 65%. CDC, arts and crafts program, automative skill development.
What are categories C MWR programs?
Revenue Generating Programs. DOD APF is 0. clubs, bowling alleys boating activities.

What law identifies the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the senior ranking member of theArmed Forces?

Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986

The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom?

The SECDEF, to the COCOM Commanders

The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for accomplishing theassigned military mission?

SECDEF

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military advisor to which officials and/ororganizations?

POTUS and the NSC

Who serves as the Chairman of the National Security Council?

POTUS

Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of the President's·Budget that is submitted to Congress?

The first three; Planning, Programming, and Budgeting

What is the name of the process used by DoD to determine the dollar amounts for programs to besubmitted to Congress as part of the President's budget?

PPB&E

What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of the PPBE process?

USD(P)

What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for issuing programming guidance?

D,(CAPE)

What is the title of the senior OSD official who is the principal advisor and assistant to the SECDEFfor budget and fiscal matters?

OSD COMP

The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the Chairman ofwhat Board?

DAB

Assume today's date is 1 March 2014 and your organization knows about a new project orrequirement that will require its initial funding in FY 2021. What is the first PPBE-related document inwhich you could identify resources for that requirement?

POM 17-21

What is the title of the final document of the planning phase?

DPPG

What is the title of the document prepared by the D, CAPE and USD(C) in the May to June time framethat provides guidance to Components for preparation of their POM and BES submissions?

Integrated Program/Budget Review Guidance

What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and equipmentassociated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense?

FYDP

What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are translated intorequested resources in an appropriations format?

Budgeting

What is the name of the document prepared by the Joint Staff after its review of POMs submittedby the Military Departments that focuses on the balance and capabilities contained in those POMs?{This document provides the SECDEF with the JCS evaluation of the Military Departments' POMsubmissions.)

Chairman's Program Assessment

Near the end of the budget review process, the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct a review ofComponent major policy or budget issues that have not yet been resolved. Resolution of these issuesmay displace other programs within the fixed DoD topline. What are the two names by which thisreview is known?

Issue Resolution Process (Issue Teams)

Following a review of a Component's budget submission and a potential budget hearing in the falltimeframe, the reviewing USD(C) budget analyst prepares a draft document that is submitted to theDEPSECDEF or SECDEF for a decision. Once signed by one of those senior officials, what is thatdocument called?

RMD

After all resource-related decisions have been made by the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF to determinethe Defense portion of the President's Budget, the USD(C) posts final decisions into a data base inthe proper appropriation account format. What is the title of that database?

Comptroller Information System (CIS)

Advance Procurement is an exception to what funding policy?

The Full Funding Policy

Within what type document does Congress specify the number of fiscal years that an appropriationaccount remains current and available for new obligations?

Defense Authorization Bill

There are two primary methods by which DoD obligates the vast majority of its appropriations. Namethose two methods.

Contracts and MIPRs (for EAO's and PO's)

Assume an agency has issued an Economy Act order to another Federal agency for specific services,the cited appropriation has gone into an expired status, and the servicing agency has neither providedthe ordered services nor has entered into an authorized contract with another entity to provide theordered services. What must now be done with those obligated funds?

The account may be liquidated for up to 5 years

What is the term used for shifting funds between appropriations?

Reprogramming

What is the long-term financial goal of a working capital fund?

To break even

A working capital fund has an officer (0-4) properly assigned to the organization and that officeris doing the work that would normally be performed by a GS-13. For managerial cost accountingpurposes, is the "cost" of that officer's pay and benefits "charged" at the military 0-4 rate or thecivilian GS-13 rate?

The fund is charged the GS-13 rate which is reimbursed to the providing service

Assume your organization overpaid a contractor on a contract awarded with an appropriation that isnow in the cancelled status, and the contractor has sent in a check for that overpayment. What canyour organization legally do with that refund from the contractor?

The funds must be returned to the treasury

Monies not appropriated by Congress that are generated primarily from the sale of goods andservices are known as what?

Non-Appropriated Funds (NAF)