Fiscal Year 2025 Comprehensive Oversight Plan Overseas Contingency Operations

Fiscal Year 2025 Comprehensive Oversight Plan Overseas Contingency Operations

DoD OIG

We are pleased to submit our annual plans describing oversight activities for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) and Operation Enduring Sentinel (OES). These plans fulfill our individual and collective agency oversight responsibilities pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. We will issue a separate plan for Operation Atlantic Resolve, which includes assistance to Ukraine.

The Inspector General Act of 1978 requires the Inspectors General from the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of State (State), and USAID to work jointly and with our oversight partners throughout the U.S. Government to ensure effective oversight of U.S. Government activities related to designated overseas contingency operations. Specifically, the law requires the development of joint strategic plans for oversight of each overseas contingency operation for which a Lead Inspector General has been designated. The DoD Inspector General is the Lead Inspector General for the two overseas contingency operations outlined in this plan for FY 2025. OIR's mission is to advise, assist, and enable partner forces in Iraq and designated areas of Syria until they can independently maintain the enduring defeat of ISIS and set conditions for long-term security cooperation frameworks. OES's mission is to conduct over-the-horizon counterterrorism operations against threats emanating from Afghanistan; protect the homeland by maintaining pressure on those threats; and engage with Central Asian and South Asian regional partners to combat terrorism and promote regional stability.

Oversight of these operations must be dynamic to be effective. Although we intend to conduct the oversight described in this comprehensive oversight plan, oversight agencies regularly reassess their plans and adjust projects and priorities throughout the fiscal year. These efforts promote greater transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness in these overseas contingency operations. This FY 2025 comprehensive oversight plan for OIR and OES is effective as of October 1, 2024, and is approved upon the signature of all parties below.

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