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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 clarify guidance for residents explaining how and when they can enter into the formal dispute resolution process. (Recommendation 2)
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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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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 define and implement wartime medical skills for enlisted medical subspecialties with an expeditionary role. (Recommendation 2)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation. In a November 2023 status update, the Air Force outlined a series of steps to implement this recommendation, with an estimated completion date of 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 includes the following in Space C2's program increment reports: 1. Metrics that are consistent across program increment reports—for example, those metrics in the Space C2 draft acquisition strategy—and associated results; 2. Measures or metrics of the Space C2 backlog that show how much work remains for each development activity or application and the overall program; and 3. Assessment of risk in current and future program development. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

KC-46 Tanker: Air Force Needs to Mature Critical Technologies in New Aerial Refueling System Design

GAO-22-104530
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should direct KC-46 program officials, in coordination with Boeing and prior to closing the preliminary design review or as soon as possible thereafter, to develop TMPs for the remote vision system's critical technologies. (Recommendation 2)
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The Department of the Air Force did not concur with this recommendation. As of July 2023, the Air Force has not taken any further action to close this recommendation and maintained that it does not plan to complete a TMP for the remote vision system's critical technologies.

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 assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Air Force military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 21)
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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 establishes procedures for responding to involuntary servicemember absences in the revised OSI manual for conducting criminal investigations, or in other guidance. (Recommendation 4)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation. In February 2024, DOD stated that the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) plans to incorporate these procedures into its revised manual for conducting criminal investigations. OSI plans to issue this manual by the end of June 2024. 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 (1) collaborate with the Army Medical Command and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to develop and implement a common set of planning standards to be used to help determine dental clinic staffing needs, and (2) incorporate these standards into the Air Force's dental corps staffing model. (Recommendation 3)
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On January 15, 2019, DOD sent a correspondence that indicated they are taking steps to develop and implement a common set of planning standards, which will be incorporated into the military department staffing models, to help determine dental clinic staffing needs and these changes will be complete by January 1, 2020. In a letter dated April 27, 2020, DOD stated that a tri-service working group, that was formed in January 2019, has evaluated the services' perspectives on dental manpower requirements for resourcing within military treatment facilities. Additionally, the working group evaluated commonalities and dissimilarities between the existing Air Force, Army, and Navy dental clinic staffing models. The outcome of the study are common planning standards to be integrated into the services' dental manpower models in the functional areas of Preventive Care, Routine Care and Specialty care based on 32 clinical procedures and treatment times that were evaluated as part of the commonalities garnered from separate services specific dental workload-based studies. DOD requests GAO close this recommendation. 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. On May 1, 2023, GAO met with DOD representatives, who stated that department-wide staffing models are being developed through a Defense Health Agency initiative. These models are planned for completion in March 2027. On May 23, 2023, DOD updated its corrective action plan, indicating that although the services did agree on the 32 clinical procedures and treatment times, they did not agree on how the data would be aggregated to determine staffing needs. DOD is considering three possibilities on how to use these data to determine staffing, with an estimated completion date of July 2023.As of January 2024, DOD has not provided updated information on the status of this recommendation. GAO will continue to monitor DOD's efforts and will update the recommendation when 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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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, establishes guidance that requires the development of wartime medical skills for current and future enlisted medical subspecialties with an expeditionary role. (Recommendation 3)
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The Air Force concurred with this recommendation. In a November 2023 status update, the Air Force stated that it will address this recommendation via an interim change to Air Force Instruction 41-106 and that action on this recommendation will be complete 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.
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