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Following the 2003 crisis, the Department of Defense directed its attention to the problem of sexual harassment and assault at the military academies. The Department of Defense claimed that the program was successful although during the school year 2010–11 there were increased reports of sexual assault at the academy; however, one goal of the program is increased reporting.<ref name=DOD20102011>{{cite web|title=Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies Academic Program Year 2010–2011: Report to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives |url=https://www.sapr.mil/public/docs/reports/FINAL_APY_10-11_MSA_Report.pdf |publisher=United States Department of Defense |access-date=27 December 2011|date=21 October 2011|quote=The 65 reports represent an increase from the 41 reports made in APY 09-10. The Department does not have the ability to conclusively identify the reasons for this increase in reporting behavior. However, in prior years' assessments, the Department identified steps the academies could take to encourage more victims to report. Some of the increased reporting of sexual assault may be attributed to these efforts as well as many other factors.}}</ref> There have been several attempts to prosecute cadets for rape since 2003,{{citation needed |date=April 2023}}{{when |date=April 2023}} but only three have resulted in convictions, citing the confidential informant program that ran from 2011 to 2012. The informant program was led by former AFOSI agent Brandon Enos, AFOSI's most successful agent in Air Force Academy's history in combating sexual assault and drug use among cadets. After the confidential informant program was mysteriously disbanded in 2013 on orders from General Johnson, sexual assault reporting fell by half. On 5 January 2012 rape charges were referred against cadets in three unrelated cases.<ref name=AFARape>{{cite news|title=3 AFA cadets charged with rape|url=http://www.gazette.com/articles/rape-131225-academy-story.html|access-date=5 January 2012|newspaper=The Colorado Springs Gazette|date=5 January 2012|author=Tom Roeder|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109035406/http://www.gazette.com/articles/rape-131225-academy-story.html|archive-date=9 January 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>  To help combat these problems, the [[United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] (AFOSI) created a system of cadet informants to hunt for misconduct among students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gazette.com/honor-and-deception-a-secretive-air-force-program-recruits-academy-students-to-inform-on-fellow-cadets-and-disavows-them-afterward/article/1510262 |title=HONOR AND DECEPTION: A secretive Air Force program recruits academy students to inform on fellow cadets and disavows them afterward |last1=Philipps |first1=Dave |date=1 December 2013 |website=gazette.com |publisher=Colorado Springs Gazette |access-date=1 December 2013}}</ref> According to ''[[The New York Times]]'' in academic year 2014, "after the informant program ended with no further convictions, reports fell by half."<ref name=Times08102014>{{cite news |title=Informant Debate Renewed as Air Force Revisits Cadet Misconduct |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/us/informant-debate-renewed-as-air-force-revisits-cadet-misconduct.html|first=Dave |last=Phillips |date=9 August 2014 |website=The New York Times |access-date=15 August 2014}}</ref>