Sustaining Service Members and Their Families: Exploring Opportunities for Efficiency and Joint Provision of Services Using Nonappropriated Funds

Kathryn Connor ; Carra S. Sims ; Rianne Laureijs ; Jaime Hastings ; Kristin Van Abel ; Kayla M. Williams ; Michael Schwille

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Military Budgets and Defense Spending;    Change Management;    Defense Health Agency;    Military Families;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR1175
ISBN  :  9780833094292
RP-ID  :  RR-1175-OSD

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

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来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The Department of Defense (DoD) routinely seeks ways to become more efficient and reduce costs. Each military service provides its members and their families with a wide range of services supported by resources that are paid for using congressionally appropriated funding (APF), nonappropriated funding (NAF), or a combination thereof. DoD was interested in determining whether any administrative NAF activities could be consolidated — and, if so, whether consolidation would save costs. DoD created a task force to explore these issues and identified several areas for improvement, ranging from contracting to information technology. DoD Military Community and Family Policy asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute to review the work of the task force and provide an independent assessment of specific recommendations. In collaboration with the sponsor, RAND provided intensive analysis of recommendations in two areas for improvement that the task force identified. Researchers determined that application of consolidation could achieve improvement and savings in some NAF accounting activities, but that there is considerably less potential in the case of NAF employee benefits.