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I. Resource Summary

Resource Summary

Note 1: In FY 2000, funding for the Gulf States Counterdrug Initiative is transferred from the Central Transfer Account to ASD C3I: Patrol Coastal OPTEMPO funds are transferred from the CTA to SOCOMM OPTEMPO.
Note 2: FY 1999 funding does not yet include a pending $45 million reprogramming to fund SOUTHCOMM's implementation of a post-Panama countering architecture.

II. Methodology

  • All Department of Defense (DoD) counterdrug activities funded through the Central Transfer Account and military department operations (OPTEMPO) dedicated to counterdrug activities are scored as 100 percent drug-related. Payroll expenses for active component military personnel are not included in DoD's estimate of drug-related costs since these costs represent the authorized force structure directly associated with DoD's national defense mission.

III. Program Summary

  • The Defense Department administers programs that support domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies that have counterdrug responsibilities. The Department's drug controlprograms support all five goals of the Strategy as explained below.

Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.

  • DoD assists community groups by providing drug prevention information and education through the Young Marines program and the National Guard State Plan funded outreach programs. These efforts focus on providing positive role models and drug awareness education for at-risk youth. Additionally, DoD family outreach programs to military dependents consist of a mixture of positive mentoring, drug avoidance education, leadership skill, peer pressure resistance, and counseling services. Drug Education For Youth (DEFY) and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) programs are conducted at various military installations for family dependents both at home and overseas. In addition, military personnel volunteer in drug abuse prevention programs through various community-based programs.

Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.

  • DoD active duty military and reserve components provide transportation, equipment, intelligence support, training and services to Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (DLEA) that request domestic operational and logistical support to assist them in their efforts to reduce drug-related crime.

Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.

  • DoD provides extensive demand reduction drug testing, education and awareness programs focused on maintaining military readiness. Additionally, DoD has implemented Drug Free Workplace Programs in all of its civilian agencies.

Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.

  • DoD serves as the lead agency of the federal government for the detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs to the United States. Accordingly, DoD maintains a robust maritime air surveillance tracking system using cued-intelligence as well as Patrol Coastal ships in the transit zone, and air surveillance aerostats along the Southwest Border and Gulf Coast. DoD support also comes in the form of direct support to DLEAs along the Southwest Border and the development of drug detection instruments and truck/container x-rays to support U.S. Customs' drug detection and seizure efforts at U.S. ports of entry. DoD military-to-military cooperation continues with Mexican counterdrug elements.

Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.

  • DoD supports extensive foreign intelligence collection and analysis programs that aid cocaine source nations, transit zone interagency operations and international efforts to interdict cocaine, arrest drug kingpins and dismantle their organizations. Such DoD support is critical to effective counterdrug operations throughout the hemisphere. DoD also maintains an air surveillance capability in the source zone.

IV. Budget Summary

1999 Program

  • The FY 1999 enacted level of $937.1 million supports all five goals and includes one-time increases totaling $48.0 million for interdiction, state and local assistance, and prevention and treatment efforts. CD OPTEMPO funding in FY 1999 totaled $161.5 million. The FY 1999 enacted level includes:

Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.

  • FY 1999 funding for Goal 1 activities totals $24.1 million for the Services and National Guard Demand Reduction outreach programs. Of this amount $5.4 million is directly attributable to the one-time FY 1999 enacted increase.

  • These funds allow the Services and National Guard to conduct community based demand reduction outreach programs and to provide material support to military installations' volunteer programs that use DoD personnel as role models to provide a positive reference to our youth.

Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.

  • FY 1999 funding for Goal 2 activities totals $136.7 million for law enforcement support activities, of which $39.2 million is directly attributable to the one-time FY 1999 enacted increase. Goal 2 funding includes: $11.5 million for CD OPTEMPO, $6.6 million for operational support, $88.5 million for a portion of the National Guard State Plans that supports domestic drug law enforcement efforts outside the Southwest Border and Puerto Rico, $5.7 million for Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force, and $14.0 million for the Gulf State Counterdrug Initiative, including the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy.

  • Requests for support from DLEAs within the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) receive highest priority. The National Guard provides support in accordance with the 54 States and Territorial Governors' Counterdrug Plans to support federal, state and local DLEAs.

Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.

  • FY 1999 funding for Goal 3 activities totals $70.1 million.

  • These funds support extensive demand reduction drug testing, education and awareness programs focused on maintaining military readiness and maintaining a drug free workplace environment in its civilian agencies.

Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.

  • FY 1999 funding for Goal 4 activities totals $428.6 million for interdiction activities, of which$15.6 million is directly attributable to the one-time FY 1999 enacted increase.

  • FY 1999 Goal 4 funding includes the following highlighted programs: $110.9 million for CD OPTEMPO, $119.0 million for detection, monitoring, interdiction programs (ocean-going surveillance ships, Virginia and Texas ROTHR, aerostats, CBRNs, E-2 support); $61.3 million for C4I programs; $63.2 million for operational support, which includes support to Mexico, Joint Task Force-Six, military reserve support programs, and patrol coastal ships detection and monitoring operations; and $52.6 million for a portion of the total National Guard State Plans that supports domestic law enforcement along the Southwest Border.

  • Transit zone interdiction operations provide a critical line of defense that has directly assisted law enforcement agencies in seizing over 100 metric tons of cocaine each year. Additionally, extensive intelligence and training support is provided to participating nations and law enforcement.

  • Requests for support from DLEAs along the Southwest Border receive high priority. The National Guard, active duty, and reserve components provide direct support in the form of transportation, equipment, intelligence support, training and services.

  • DoD enhances military-to-military cooperation with Mexican counterdrug elements in areas of training, modernization, and operational and intelligence capabilities, support and cooperation.

Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.

  • FY 1999 funding for Goal 5 activities totals $277.6 million for intelligence activities and support to participating nations. This represents a net $12.2 million decrease from the FY 1999 budget request due to Congressional action. Goal 5 funding includes: $39.1 for CD OPTEMPO, $44.9 million for C4I programs, $41.7 million for surveillance platforms (the Puerto Rico ROTHR, the tracker aircraft and ground mobile radars), $30.2 million for intelligence programs, $91.5 million for operational support, and $26.7 million for National Guard marijuana eradication efforts. Additionally, the Defense Intelligence Agency hosts and supports the FBI-led Interagency Dominant Chronicle money laundering intelligence program.

  • DoD's extensive foreign intelligence collection and analysis programs, along with their air surveillance program, have contributed significantly to the arrest of the drug cartel members, the disruption of drug movements, and the dismantling of these drug organizations' infrastructure.

  • DoD's support to source and transit zone nations' interdiction programs and assistance in operational planning has successfully expanded host nation capabilities. In providing this support to source nations, DoD utilizes E-3 and Tracker aircraft, operates ground mobile radars, and is installing a ROTHR surveillance radar in Puerto Rico. With the increased effectiveness of air interdiction programs, drug trafficking has shifted to river areas in the source nations. Accordingly, DoD has intensified riverine interdiction efforts with priority of effort in Peru and Colombia.

2000 Request

  • The total FY 2000 drug control budget request is $954.6 million, a net increase of $17.5 million over the FY 1999 enacted level of $937.1 million, which included the one-time FY 1999 net increase of $48.0 million. The FY 2000 budget request is an increase of $71.8 million over the FY 1999 base program level of $882.8 million. Total CD OPTEMPO for FY 2000 is estimated at $166.5 million.

  • The FY 2000 request for National Guard State Plans of $149.6 million is an increase of $2.0 million over the FY 1999 enacted level, exclusive of one-time Congressional increases. Additionally, the Department added $73.5 million for the restructuring of SOUTHCOM's theater counterdrug architecture.

Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.

  • The total drug control request for Goal 1 activities for FY 2000 is $16.8 million, a net decrease of $7.3 million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $24.1 million. The 1999 enacted level included one-time increases for the National Guard programs. FY 2000 programs continue the National Guards' efforts in assisting community groups in providing drug prevention information.

Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.

  • The total drug control request for Goal 2 activities for FY 2000 is $95.0 million, a net decrease of $41.7 million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $136.7 million. The decrease is attributable to FY 1999 one-time increases for National Guard Programs and the Gulf States Counterdrug Initiative. The FY 2000 programs continue the enhanced support for the National Guard direct support to law enforcement agencies, particularly in the HIDTA areas, and includes reserve support. FY 2000 CD OPTEMPO in support of Goal 2 activities is $12.1 million.

Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.

  • The total drug control request for Goal 3 activities for FY 2000 is $72.2 million, a net increase of $2.1 million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $70.1 million. The primary focus of the Counterdrug Demand Reduction Program is force readiness. The FY 2000 request supports drug testing for military and civilian personnel, drug abuse prevention/education activities for military and civilian personnel and their dependents, and drug treatment for military personnel.

Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.

  • The total drug control request for Goal 4 activities for FY 2000 is $440.9 million, a net increase of $12.3 million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $428.6 million. The increase is due to increased funding for Aerostat's spares support and restructuring SOUTHCOM's theater counterdrug architecture, which includes the development of one Forward Operating Location in support of air operations throughout the transit zone in SOUTHCOM's area of responsibility. FY 2000 CD OPTEMPO in support of Goal 4 activities is $113.3 million.

Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.

  • The total drug control request for Goal 5 activities for FY 2000 is $329.7 million, a net increase of $52.1 million from the FY 1999 enacted level of $277.6 million. The increase is attributable to extensive restructuring of SOUTHCOM's theater counterdrug architecture to include the development of two Forward Operating Locations in support of source zone air operations throughout the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility and increased intelligence support.

  • DoD will continue programs that support congressional authority (FY 1998 NDAA, Section 1033) previously granted to procure the necessary equipment to establish an effective river interdiction capability in Peru and also to enhance the existing river interdiction capability of the government of Colombia. In this regard, greater emphasis will be placed on supporting riverine counterdrug programs.

  • DoD will enhance its efforts to build forward operating bases and provide critical training to participating nation counterdrug forces in accordance with Section 1004 authority. The ROTHR in Puerto Rico will be installed and will be operational. Five Citation Tracker aircraft will provide an enhanced end-game capability. FY 2000 CD OPTEMPO in support of Goal 5 activities is $41.1 million.

V. Program Accomplishments

Accomplishments Relative to Goal 1:

  • The Defense Department provides extensive training to deter and reduce the use of illegal drugs among DoD dependant youth. Training included, but was not limited to, youth and parent counseling, anti-drug education, parenting skills, and drug dependency evaluation and treatment.

  • The Defense Department also provides mentoring, anti-drug education, and alternatives to drug abuse to non-DoD at-risk youth through programs administered by the National Guard and military Reserve units. The Guard demand reduction program reached more than 13.5 million people. Program support included DARE, DEFY, Adopt-A-School, and Lunch-Buddy, which provides military mentors, tutors and role models to at-risk youth.

  • The Department lent support to the Young Marines Program. Approximately, 9,500 youths participate in year round programs of leadership, discipline and goal orientation.

Accomplishments Relative to Goal 2:

  • The Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA), located in Meridian, Mississippi, trained over 2,300 law enforcement officers. The Multi-Jurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force (MJTF), located in St. Petersburg, Florida, reached over 73,000 law enforcement officers.

  • The Army/Air National Guard provided over 94,000 workdays in support of mail/cargoinspections and 363,000 workdays in 6,726 operations supporting DLEAs. The Army National Guard flew over 20,000 helicopter and fixed wing hours and the Air National Guard flew over 2,700 C-26 hours supporting counterdrug law enforcement activities.

  • DoD transferred more than $252 million of excess equipment to DLEAs, including over 700 vehicles and 50 aircraft.

Accomplishments Relative to Goal 3:

  • DoD supported aggressive drug testing for military and civilian personnel and conducted prevention/education activities to support Service and Defense Agencies.

  • Nearly 2.9 million samples for testing are collected from active duty military personnel. Drug testing within the Army National Guard averages 45 percent of total Guard force per year. Reserve component drug testing averages 20 percent of the Reserve force per year.

Accomplishments Relative to Goal 4:

  • Transit zone detection and monitoring operations assisted law enforcement in seizing over 100 metric tons of cocaine. ROTHR served as the primary detection system for airborne smuggling flights destined for the Caribbean and northern Latin American countries. Operational practices, initiated by JIATF-East, have significantly improved the interagency ability to use ROTHR, and in conjunction with other airborne assets, to track aerial smuggling events throughout their flight.

  • FY 1998 efforts to enhance military cooperation in counterdrug matters between the U.S. and Mexico continued on an substantive scale. Specific U.S./Mexican counterdrug initiatives include: installation of secure fax, phone and computer network systems linking U.S. drug agencies and their Mexican counterparts; provision of a UH-1H simulator to provide continuation and emergency procedure training; and continued implementation of a specialized counterdrug training program consisting of over 1000 training quotas for Mexican military personnel. D&M overflights, port visits, remain overnight stays, gas-n-go, and brief stops for fuel were coordinated with the Mexican military. This improved military-to-military cooperation with Mexico significantly enhanced overland transit zone counterdrug efforts.

  • DoD provided coordinated Title 10 operational support by active component and reserves to DLEAs throughout the Southwest Border to deny the smuggling of illegal drugs into the U.S. Authorized support included air reconnaissance, intelligence analysis, linguists, engineering, transportation, training and maintenance.

  • The Air and Army National Guard provided over 75,000 workdays in support of mail/cargo inspections and 346,000 workdays in 2,762 counterdrug operations supporting DLEAs. The Army National Guard flew over 9,300 helicopter and fixed wing hours and the Air National Guard flew over 1,400 C-26 hours supporting counterdrug activities.

Accomplishments Relative to Goal 5:

  • The most noteworthy success is the significant disruption of the traditional Peru-Colombiacocaine "airbridge." Traffickers have been forced to resort to less efficient and more vulnerable means to move their illegal product, such as rivers and short flights along the Peru border. Although air smuggling endgames have become infrequent due to trafficker countermeasures, coca hectarage is down 55% in Peru since 1995 -- a dramatic reduction in cocaine production.

  • To complement the airbridge denial program, a riverine interdiction program was executed this year. The Joint Peruvian Riverine Training Center (JPRTC) in Iquitos, Peru was opened in June. Five U.S. government procured patrol boats were delivered to Iquitos in July for use at the JPRTC. The first Riverine Interdiction Unit Class graduated in August. In Colombia, infrastructure improvements, spare parts for boats, night vision devices and personal protective equipment were procured in FY 1998.

  • DoD deployed intelligence analysts to support country teams for operational planning and collection efforts. Analytical deployments have contributed to the identification, arrest, deportation and incarceration of a number of key cocaine/heroin traffickers such as: Lizardo Marcedo Santillan "Cristal", Jose Nelson Urrego Cardenas, Manuel Losado Martinez, Ramon Gonzales Lazo, Luis Amezcua Contreras and Jesus Amezcua Contreras. DoD analysts provided critical assistance in the arrest on June 6, 1998, of major Colombian drug trafficker El Caracol and his key deputy Libonatti-Pimienta on April 14, 1998.

  • The Air and Army National Guard provided over 230,000 workdays supporting DLEAs in counterdrug activities. The Guard also eradicated over 2.1 million cultivated marijuana plants and over 43.8 million non-cultivated plants. The Army National Guard flew over 6,900 helicopter and fixed wing hours in support of counterdrug missions. The Air National Guard flew over 1,000 C-26 hours in support of counterdrug missions.

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