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Military Housing: DOD Should Address Critical Supply and Affordability Challenges for Service Members

GAO-25-106208
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5 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment clarifies the Office of the Secretary of Defense's (OSD) role in oversight of the military services' Housing Requirements and Market Analysis (HRMA) process in guidance to help ensure that the military services conduct HRMAs in a timely manner and that DOD submits to Congress required lists of planned HRMAs for each fiscal year. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment provides updated guidance to the services on how installations should coordinate with local communities, including clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of installation commanders and military housing offices in addressing housing needs. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and the military services, obtains and uses feedback on the financial and quality-of-life effects of limited supply or unaffordable housing on service members, through the Status of Forces survey and other service or installation-specific feedback mechanisms. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and the military services, develops a plan for how the department can respond to and address the financial and quality-of-life effects in critical housing areas once those areas are identified, such as through feasible solutions to increase housing supply or through additional strategies such as alternative compensation. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, regularly updates the list of identified critical housing areas. (Recommendation 3)
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Military Housing: DOD Should Address Critical Supply and Affordability Challenges for Service Members

GAO-25-106208
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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, performs a structured analysis to develop a comprehensive list of critical housing areas. In conducting analysis to develop this list, DOD should consider the unique characteristics of a location, such as vacation rental areas. (Recommendation 2)
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DOD Financial Management: Action Needed to Enhance Workforce Planning

GAO-25-105286
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to coordinate with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Secretaries of the military departments (Army, Air Force, and Navy) and the Director of DFAS to develop a strategy for identifying the specific functions performed by contractors supporting the financial management workforce to help identify workforce needs and to help inform future competency and capability assessments. (Recommendation 1)
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DOD Financial Management: Action Needed to Enhance Workforce Planning

GAO-25-105286
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to coordinate with the Director of Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DCPAS) and the Secretaries of the military departments and develop written procedures for succession planning for their financial management workforce. (Recommendation 2)
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Small Business Research Programs: Agencies Broadly Solicit Ideas, but Clearer Guidance Could Improve DOD Efforts

GAO-24-107036
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering revises the SBIR/STTR Program Innovation Open Topic Guidance to clarify how the specificity of open and conventional topics should differ. (Recommendation 1)
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Biomedical Research: Improvements Needed to the Quality of Information About DOD and VA Contributions to Drug Development

GAO-24-107061
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Department of Defense The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in collaboration with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, should enhance department-wide training for the DOD personnel who review information submitted by awardees to ensure that awardees disclose DOD support correctly in patents arising from DOD-funded research. (Recommendation 1)
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