The United States has allocated over $73 million to support a regional helicopter training center in Colombia. DOD has provided basic helicopter training for Colombians and Mexicans at RHTC at a level broadly comparable with DOD standards and has tracked some short-term performance measures, such as numbers of students trained. However, DOD does not collect information that it needs to assess the pilot training's longer-term outcomes despite the Colombian government's proven ability to track graduates of mechanics training. The data currently collected for student pilot graduation rates do not indicate whether Colombian pilot graduates successfully participated in Colombia's counternarcotics aviation efforts. DOD has requested, but has not received, information from the Colombian government on the continuing careers of RHTC's Colombian pilot graduates. Without evidence of RHTC pilot graduates' ability to use their training to help meet their countries' counternarcotics aviation needs, DOD has limited ability to demonstrate RHTC's longer-term outcomes.
| Author: Government Accountability Office |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Dec 31, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 46 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1503214974 |
| ISBN-13: 9781503214972 |
