Commander's Emergency Response Program: Projects at Baghdad Airport Provided Some Benefits, but Waste and Management Problems Occurred

摘要

According to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), since 2004, $3.74 billion has been allocated to the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) for Iraq, enabling military commanders to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction requirements within their areas of responsibility. In July 2009, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) examined a hotel construction project at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) and identified a number of weaknesses in the project's overall management by the Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I). These projects are now the responsibility of U.S. Forces-Iraq. Because of these weaknesses, SIGIR initiated a study of all of MNC-I's CERP projects at BIAP. The cost of these projects totaled about $35.5 million as of November 2009. Our reporting objectives for the CERP-funded BIAP projects were to examine their (1) cost and outcome and (2) management.