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What law identifies the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member of the
Armed Services - correct answersGoldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act 1986
The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom - correct
answersThe Secretary of Defense to the Combatent Commanders
The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for
accomplishing the assigned military mission? - correct answers President and Secretary
of Defense
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal advisor to which officials and/or
organizations? - correct answers President, National Security Council, Secretary of
Defense
Who serves as Chairman of the National Security Council - correct answersPresident
Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of the
Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress - correct answers Planning,
Programming, Budget
What is the name of the process used by the DoD to determine the dollar amounts for
programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the Presidents Budget - correct
answersPPBE (planning, programming, Budget, execution)
What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of the
PPBE process - correct answers Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is responsible for issuing programming
guidance? - correct answers Director, Cost Assessment and Program evaluation
D,CAPE
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is principal advisor and assistent to the
SECDEF for budget and financial matters? - correct answers Under Secretary of
Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the
Chairman of what Board - correct answers Defense Acquisition Board (DAB)
Assume todays date is 1 March 2014 and your organization knows about a new project
or requirement that will require its initial funding in FY 2021. What is the first PPBE
related document in which you could identify resources for that requirement - correct
answers POM 2017 - 2021
What is the title of the final document of the planning phase? - correct answers Defense
Planning Guidance (DPG)
What is the title of the document prepared by the D,CAPE and USD(C) in the May to
June time frame that provides guidance to Components for preparation of their POM
and BES submissions? - correct answers Integrated Program/Budget Review Guidance
What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources,
and equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense? -
correct answers Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are translated
into requested resources in an appropriations format - correct answers Budgeting
(Budget Development)
What is the name of the document prepare by the Joint Staff after its review of POMs
submitted by the Military Departments that focuses on the balance and capabilities
contained in those POMs? (This document provides SECDEF with the JCS evaluation
of the Military Departments submissions) - correct answers Chairman's Program
Assessment (CPA) {Chairman, JCS}
Near the end of the budget review process the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct a
review of Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet been resolved.
Resolution of these issues may displace other programs within the fixed DoD topline.
What is the name of this review? - correct answers Issue Resolution
Following a review of a Component's budget submission and a potential budget hearing
in the fall timeframe the reviewing USD(C) budget analyst prepares a draft document
that is submitted to the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF for a decision. Once signed by one of
those senior officials , what is the document called? - correct answers Resource
Management Decision
After all resource-related decisions have been made by the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF
to determine the Defense portion of the President's Budget, the USD(C) posts final
decisions into a database in the proper appropriation account format. What is the title of
that database? - correct answers Comptroller Information System (CIS)
Advance Procurement is an exception to what funding policy? - correct answers Full
Funding Policy
Within what type of document does Congress specify the number of fiscal years that an
appropriation account remains current and available for new obligations? - correct
answersAn appropriation bill (becomes law when signed by President)
There are two primary methods by which DoD obligates the vast majority of its
appropriations. Name those two methods - correct answersContracts and MIPRS
Assume an agency has issued an Economy Act order to another Federal Agency for
specific services, the cited appropriation has gone into an expired status and the
servicing agency has neither provided the ordered services nor has entered into an
authorized contract with another entity to provide ordered services. What must now be
done with those obligated funds? - correct answersDe-obligate
What is the term used for shifting funds between appropriations? - correct
answersTransfer action
What is the long term financial goal of a working capital fund? - correct answersTo
break even
A working capital fund has an officer (O-4) properly assigned to the organization and
that officer is doing the work that would normally be performed by a GS-13. For
managerial cost accounting purposes, is the "cost" of that officer's pay and benefits
"charged" at the military O-4 rate or the civilian GS-13 rate? - correct answersCivilian
GS-13 rate (and the proper MILPER account is reimbursed for that amount)
Assume your organization overpaid a contractor on a contract awarded with an
appropriation that is now in the cancelled status, and the contractor has sent in a check
for that overpayment. What can your organization legally do with that refund from the
contractor? - correct answersCredit the refund to the miscellaneous receipts of the US
Treasury
Monies not appropriated by Congress that are generated primarily from the sale of
goods and services are known as what? - correct answersNon-appropriated Funds
What is the mission of the DoD? - correct answersDeter war
To protect the security of our country
Who reports to the SECDEF - correct answers3 Military Departments (Army, Navy, Air
Force)
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