Commander Training and the Defense Incident-Based Reporting System (DIBRS) Per a 2004 directive which was incorporated into the 2007 DOD 6400.06, Domestic Abuse Involving DoD Military and Certain Affiliated Personnel, commanders are required to report command actions to the DIBRS by way of law enforcement officials. Additionally, commanders were provided a web-based training curriculum that is still in use by the DoD. Despite DoD training efforts, the Chief of the Financials and Special Projects Branch of the Defense Manpower Data Center has reported that DIBRS remains unable to provide accurate information on commanders’ actions. (GAO, 2010, pg.10) The GAO analysis of the DIBRS information provided by the data center manager determined the
