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Former DoD Budget Official Defends OCO Funding

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Former DoD Budget Official Defends OCO Funding
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Robert F. Hale, the Defense Department's comptroller, confer as they prepare to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the department's fiscal year 2015 budget request on March 5, 2014. DOD photo by Glenn Fawcett

Former Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said Aug. 29 that the overseas contingency operations (OCO) funding mechanism has served the Department of Defense well and should be retained with modest changes, even though it has been criticized in some quarters.OCO was started in fiscal year 2011 to pay for the cost of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hale, DoD’s chief financial officer from 2009 to 2014, said that OCO has ensured that “all those actually involved in combat would have the…

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