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Defense Health Care: Actions Needed to Define and Sustain Wartime Medical Skills for Enlisted Personnel

GAO-21-337
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Surgeon General of the Air Force, in coordination with the Commander, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency, takes corrective action to fully incorporate joint wartime medical skills into Air Force wartime medical skills checklists. (Recommendation 5)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation and stated in a November 2023 status update that action to implement it will be completed by March 31, 2024.

Space Command and Control: Improved Tracking and Reporting Would Clarify Progress amid Persistent Delays

GAO-23-105920
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure Space Force develops a prioritized program-level backlog to maintain traceability between development activities and Space C2 requirements, including any changes to the source requirements. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

DOD Financial Management: Air Force Needs to Improve Its System Migration Efforts

GAO-22-103636
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Department of the Air Force During future DEAMS upgrades, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller) should minimize the number of reports, interfaces, conversions, and extensions modifications and instead maximize the centralized functionality and capabilities of the target accounting system to reengineer business processes. (Recommendation 2)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation. In its January 2024 corrective action plan, the Air Force stated, among other things, that it will focus any future system upgrades and sustainment of the existing system to minimize modifications to allow the program to maximize centralized functionality and capabilities of the target accounting system. The Air Force also stated that, in fiscal year 2022, it established a development team with primary responsibility for reducing modifications in DEAMS. In addition, the Air Force stated that it plans to remediate or remove DEAMS modifications as part of its next planned DEAMS upgrade, which it expects to install during the third quarter of fiscal year 2024. We will continue to monitor the Air Force's efforts to address this recommendation.

Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

GAO-24-106165
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Air Force's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 25)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Servicemember Absences: DOD Actions Needed to Enhance Related Data, Procedures, and Staffing

GAO-22-105329
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander of OSI develops a strategy to meet OSI's staffing goal for special agents who conduct criminal investigations. (Recommendation 8)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation. In February 2024, DOD stated that OSI has posted multiple vacancy announcements in an effort to fill civilian special agent positions. OSI also plans to reduce its staffing goal to 90 percent of authorized positions, which it believes is a more realistic staffing goal. OSI expects these actions to be complete by September 2023. As of March 2024, DOD has not provided additional information on actions it has taken to implement this recommendation. When we confirm what actions the Air Force has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Improve Dental Clinic Staffing Models and Evaluate Recruitment and Retention Programs

GAO-19-50
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Surgeon General of the Air Force Medical Service evaluates the effectiveness of its recruitment and retention programs for military dentists, including the need for and effectiveness of the recruitment and retention incentives currently offered. (Recommendation 6)
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On January 15, 2019, DOD sent a correspondence that indicated the military departments are taking steps to study the effectiveness of their recruitment and retention programs for military dentists including the need for, and effectiveness of, the recruitment and retention incentives currently offered. This study was to be complete by January 1, 2020. In a letter dated April 27, 2020, DOD stated that the Air Force has introduced Accession and Retention (Incentive) topics as a standard agenda item at the Dental Board of Directors and reviews trends, retention gaps/overages and recruitment incentives. According to officials, the data are used to validate, adjust, or eliminate various incentives. Officials also stated that the Air Force collects and utilizes survey data, exit surveys and private sector benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of its recruitment programs. On June 8, 2021, DOD representatives from Health Affairs and the Services met with the GAO to discuss what is needed to close the recommendations. GAO requested evidence that the actions have been completed. As of May 12, 2022, GAO had not yet received supporting documents. GAO followed up with DOD representatives on May 1, 2023. DOD representatives requested further clarification on the types of supporting documents to provide GAO, and indicated they will provide these documents. On May 23, 2023, DOD provided an updated corrective action plan indicating that actions related to this recommendation will be complete in July 2023. As of January 2024, DOD has not provided any additional information on the status of this recommendation. GAO will continue to monitor DOD's efforts and will update the recommendation's status as more information becomes available.

Military Housing: DOD Can Further Strengthen Oversight of Its Privatized Housing Program [Reissued with Revisions Apr. 20, 2023]

GAO-23-105377
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force, in collaboration with the other military departments, should develop supplemental training and job aids to assist military housing office personnel in conducting dispute resolution processes. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Defense Health Care: Actions Needed to Define and Sustain Wartime Medical Skills for Enlisted Personnel

GAO-21-337
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Surgeon General of the Air Force, in coordination with the Commander, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency, issues guidance requiring the incorporation of joint wartime medical skills into Air Force checklists. (Recommendation 6)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation and stated in a November 2023 status update that action to implement it will be completed by March 31, 2024.

Artificial Intelligence: DOD Needs Department-Wide Guidance to Inform Acquisitions

GAO-23-105850
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Department of the Air Force After DOD issues department-wide AI acquisition guidance, the Secretary of the Air Force should establish service-specific AI acquisition guidance that includes oversight processes and clear goals for these acquisitions, and leverages key private company factors, as appropriate. (Recommendation 4)
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The Air Force agreed with this recommendation. As of Fall 2023, it noted that it expects to address this recommendation by January 2026 by establishing Air Force-specific AI acquisition guidance after CDAO issues its AI strategy.

DOD Financial Management: Air Force Needs to Improve Its System Migration Efforts

GAO-22-103636
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of the Air Force The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller) should ensure that future financial management system version upgrades are planned to address identified deficiencies and provide functionality that promotes Air Force compliance with federal financial management systems requirements, applicable federal accounting standards, and the U.S. Standard General Ledger at the transaction level. (Recommendation 3)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation. In its January 2024 corrective action plan, the Air Force stated that it will focus any future system upgrades to address identified deficiencies and provide functionality that promotes Air Force compliance with federal financial management systems requirements through its agile software development methodology. As of January 2024, the Air Force stated, among other things, that it has completed development and testing of its financial management system upgrade using core functionality to improve financial reporting accuracy. The Air Force also provided an estimated closure date of December 2025 for this recommendation. We will continue to monitor DOD's efforts to address this recommendation.
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