DOD IG to evaluate COCOMs' 'counter threat finance activities'

The Defense Department's inspector general plans to begin an evaluation next month of how combatant commands are countering foreign adversaries' use of financial networks to harm the United States and its interests abroad.

"The objective of this evaluation is to determine whether U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command are planning and executing counter threat finance activities to impact adversaries' ability to use financial networks to negatively affect U.S. interests," an IG memo issued today states. "We will consider suggestions from management on additional or revised objectives."

The evaluation will take place "at the office of the under secretary of defense for policy, office of the assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low intensity conflict, office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, office of the under secretary of defense for intelligence, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, and select combatant commands," according to the memo. "We may identify additional locations during the evaluation."