[20220114]IN11839_2022财年NDAA：海外应急行动.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i FY2022 NDAA: Overseas Contingency Operations January 14, 2022 Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Congress provided funding designated for emergency requirements and later for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT) to support U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other countries, in addition to other activities. When statutory spending limits were enacted as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L. 112-25), the law specified OCO/GWOT funding would be exempt from the limits. Some observers argued OCO funding allowed for flexible response to contingencies, and provided a “safety valve” to the spending caps. Others described OCO as a loopholeevolving from an account for replacing combat losses of equipment, resupplying expended munitions, and transporting troops through war zones, to a “slush fund” for activities unrelated to contingency operations (e.g., planned or regularly occurring costs to man, train, and equip the military force typically requested in the base budget of the Department of Defense). The BCA discretionary spending l