OMA P7M Funding Policies and their Application within the DARCOM Development Community.

It is the policy of the Department of Defense DOD that research and development RD organizations shall use the RD appropriations to finance their operations. Headquarters, DARCOM has discovered a significant number of personnel spaces on the authorized manning tables of DARCOM RD organizations which are funded using other than RD monies. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the number of directly-funded OMA maintenance positions authorized to DARCOM material development commands MDCs are in consonance with and justified by existing budget policy guidance. The study concludes that the use of OMA maintenance funds by development activities may be within the purview of guidance policy. Regulatory documents state a certain engineeringlaboratory functions will be performed by the MDC on all equipment systems regardless of where they are in the life cycle, and b these functions may be funded using the operations and maintenance appropriation. However, the study team recommends that any such effort performed by a MDC on a system already transitioned i.e., under the management control of a readiness command be on a reimbursable basis. Author