Given unprecedented flexibility to disperse funding for pressing nonproliferation projects, the State Department's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund has not done a good job managing its finances, according to a report released late last week by the Government Accountability Office. The program funds projects from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy and has the authority to work in countries where other programs are not allowed, such as North Korea or Libya, but the GAO criticized the program for not adequately planning budgets to meet potentially unexpected nonproliferation needs and for taking years to close out some projects.
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