Bureau of Industry and Security: Issues Related to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Budget and Responsibilities for International Treaty Implementation and Compliance. Final Briefing

摘要

To summarize our findings, conference report language accompanying the FY 2006 appropriations bill stated that the funding previously spent on international treaty implementation and compliance activities could now be spent on 'national security related programs.' Based on this language, BIS started funding other programs with the funding previously dedicated to the Treaty Compliance Division. With regard to the Chemical Weapons Convention attache being curtailed from his posting in The Hague, this action was taken by BIS management due to what it described as budget constraints. We found that funding was available, but was used instead by BIS for other national security programs. Finally, we found that the electronic system to compile the U.S. Additional Protocol (AP) declaration would not have been ready in time to accept the first round of submissions from U.S. industry in late 2008 even if spending on the project had continued. The development of the system had not been well managed--it was only 35 percent complete in January 2008 when BIS stopped any further work on it.