July 14, 2025

Audit of the DoD’s Efforts to Build Partner Capacity in the U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (Report No. DODIG-2025-125)

The objective of this audit was to determine whether the DoD established program objectives, developed an assessment framework, met performance metrics, and met congressional reporting requirements for the effective execution of building partner capacity activities within the U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) area of responsibility in accordance with Federal laws and DoD regulations. In addition to this report, we issued Report No. DODIG‑2025‑080, “Management Advisory: Timeliness of Performance Evaluations for Contracts Supporting the DoD’s Building Partner Capacity Efforts,” on March 28, 2025. In that management advisory, we reported that performance evaluations were not completed for contractors supporting security cooperation assessment, monitoring, and evaluation.