Cooperative Threat Reduction: DOD Has Improved Its Management and Internal Controls, but Challenges Remain

Through the CTR program, DOD provides assistance to help the former states of the Soviet Union secure and eliminate their weapons of massdestruction. Since 2003, DOD has improved its management and internal controls over the CTR program. Prior to 2003, DOD had problems managing the program and ensuring that the program was meeting its objectives. These inadequacies became apparent in 2003 following two project failures in Russia that cost the CTR program almost $200 million, including the never used liquid rocket fuel disposition facility. Following these incidents, DOD implemented a more structured approach to managing the CTR program.