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Appendix III GAO/NSIAD-97-164 NATO Expansion

Department of Defense Warsaw Initiative Interoperability Programs
  During fiscal years 1995-97 the Department of Defense (DOD) programmed almost $7.3 million to support U.S. interoperability programs in the six countries included in our review, including about $7.2 million for the following programs. The United States also allocated over $1 million in fiscal year 1994 funds for two of these programs before the establishment of the Warsaw Initiative.

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Regional Airspace Initiative

 The Regional Airspace Initiative Program seeks to help develop civil and military airspace regimes that are fully interoperable with West European civilian airspace organizations. Using its Warsaw Initiative funds, DOD first studies Partnership for Peace partner requirements for building and operating an effective air sovereignty system. For the six countries that we reviewed, DOD programmed about $594,000 for such studies in fiscal year 1995-97 funds, in addition to $508,000 in fiscal year 1994 funds.

The partners are responsible for implementing the studies' results. To encourage them to do so, the United States has offered to provide partner states air sovereignty operations centers if they provide funds needed to otherwise complete implementation. The centers will be bought with $32.3 million in State Department Foreign Military Financing funds.

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Defense Resource Management
Exchange

 DOD's Defense Resource Management Exchange Program involves country-specific exchanges on defense planning and force structure methodology. Its objective is to expose partner countries to defense management systems similar to those of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members. DOD hopes that the program will also help partner states' civilian officials assert control over their military structures. DOD has programmed about $2.8 million for such studies in fiscal year 1995-97 funds in addition to $500,000 in fiscal year 1994 funds.

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Defense Planners Exchange

 The Defense Planners Exchange Program hosts working-level Central European officials to:
  1. familiarize them with U.S. methods for building a strategy-based and balanced defense program,
  2. promote openness by allowing foreign officials to provide briefings on their defense planning processes,
  3. help the officials address defense planning problems, and
  4. enhance their intensified dialogues with NATO.

DOD programmed about $60,000 in fiscal year 1995-97 funds for this program in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovenia.

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Defense Public Affairs Exchange

 Through this program DOD has sponsored information exchanges with defense public affairs offices in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. DOD programmed about $84,000 in fiscal year 1996-97 funds for this program in the six countries that we reviewed.

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Partnership Information Management System

 The Partnership Information Management System plans to establish a computer network that will link partners' capitals, U.S. government facilities (such as the European Command), and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe's partnership coordination unit. DOD programmed about $852,000 in fiscal year 1995-97 funds for this program in the six countries that we reviewed.

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Command and Control Studies

 DOD is studying the command and control systems of partner countries to help assess their interoperability with those of U.S. forces in peacekeeping and peace enforcement efforts and the readiness of their military capability for NATO membership. The studies will focus on the weaknesses of the partners' systems and propose corrective actions. DOD programmed almost $2.7 million in fiscal year 1995-97 funds for such studies and a navigational aids study for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.

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Personnel and Readiness Exchange

 DOD hosts U.S.-partner data exchanges concerning how each nation is addressing personnel and readiness issues associated with the reform of Soviet-era militaries. DOD programmed about $30,000 in fiscal year 1995-97 funds for this program in the Czech Republic and Hungary.
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