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Open Recommendations (178 total)

Naval Shipyards: Key Actions Remain to Improve Infrastructure to Better Support Navy Operations

GAO-20-64
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the shipyard optimization program office (PMS 555) obtain an independent cost estimate of the Naval Shipyards program prior to the start of its project prioritization effort. (Recommendation 3)
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Navy officials concurred with this recommendation. As of July 2023, the Navy is developing shipyard-specific infrastructure plans that will serve as the basis for the full SIOP cost estimate. Navy officials tell us that those plans will be complete by the end of FY24. It seems unlikely that the Navy will be able to produce an independent cost estimate for the SIOP until those plans identify the projects that will make up the SIOP. However, some projects already have a statutory requirement to develop an independent cost estimate. The FY22 National Defense Authorization Act included a provision that required the Navy to provide either updated or independent cost estimates for all projects with contracts awarded after October 2024 that cost more than $250 million. The Navy must provide that new estimate prior to the beginning of construction. In order to fully implement this recommendation, the Navy must determine what projects will be a part of the SIOP and obtain independent cost estimates for all appropriate projects.

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 Navy The Secretary of the Navy should consider incorporating data on civilian pay for comparable occupations in the Navy's decision-making processes for awarding retention bonuses. (Recommendation 28)
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The Navy concurred with this recommendation and stated that it had taken actions to implement it. As of November 2023, the Navy has not provided documentation to support the actions it has reported taking. We will update the status of this recommendation once we confirm what actions the Navy has taken.

Uncrewed Maritime Systems: Navy Should Improve Its Approach to Maximize Early Investments

GAO-22-104567
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should develop a master planning schedule to include each uncrewed maritime system effort. This schedule should establish when the Navy plans to purchase and prototype each vehicle as well as when it plans to achieve desired capabilities, including the digital infrastructure. (Recommendation 5)
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The Navy concurred with this recommendation and stated that it has already completed these tasks. However, as of August 2023, the Navy has provided no evidence of a master planning schedule.

Military Readiness: Actions Needed to Further Implement Predictive Maintenance on Weapon Systems

GAO-23-105556
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, should develop a comprehensive implementation plan for predictive maintenance, which includes action plans and milestones for current weapon systems, outcome-related goals and objectives, a process for evaluating progress, and a framework to develop and track milestones. (Recommendation 6)
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The Department of the Navy partially concurred with this recommendation, stating that a comprehensive strategic implementation plan is necessary, but not all weapon systems are suitable candidates for predictive maintenance. As of January 2024, the Navy stated it requires deliberate study and analysis for determining which weapon systems should implement predictive maintenance, and to what degree implementation is deemed necessary and beneficial. To do so, the Navy is continuing its pilot project to study predictive maintenance implementation. The Navy also stated it plans to integrate predictive maintenance within mainstream supply and maintenance processes, integrate predictive maintenance into logistics information technology modernization and development efforts, and collaborate with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment) and Defense Acquisition University to develop course curricula to implement enterprise-wide career-level predictive maintenance training. When we confirm the actions the Navy has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Directed Energy Weapons: DOD Should Focus on Transition Planning

GAO-23-105868
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, for efforts the Navy expects to transition to an acquisition program, develop transition agreements between prototype developers and identified transition partners within the first year of a DE prototype project, or as soon as possible. (Recommendation 1)
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DOD partially concurred with this recommendation. As of July 2023, DOD noted that it was working on implementing it, but did not yet have a specific timeframe for doing so.

DOD Service Acquisition: Improved Use of Available Data Needed to Better Manage and Forecast Service Contract Requirements

GAO-16-119
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Department of the Navy To ensure that senior leadership within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the military departments are better positioned to make informed decisions regarding the volume and type of services that should be acquired over the future year defense program, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force should revise their programming guidance to collect information on how contracted services will be used to meet requirements beyond the budget year.
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DOD partially concurred with our recommendation, and has begun, but not completed steps to address it. In June 2022, DOD issued departmentwide guidance to begin forecasting budget needs for service acquisitions in its fiscal year 2024 budget submission. However, as of February 2024, the Navy had not yet updated its programming guidance. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) officials indicated they are coordinating with the Navy on revising their programming guidance to address this recommendation.

Military Vehicles: Army and Marine Corps Should Take Additional Actions to Mitigate and Prevent Training Accidents

GAO-21-361
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The Secretary of the Navy, in consultation with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, should ensure that tactical vehicle driver training programs—to include licensing, unit, and follow-on training—have a well-defined process with specific performance criteria and measureable standards to identify driver skills and experience under diverse conditions. (Recommendation 6)
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The Navy concurred with this recommendation. According to an action plan provided to us in February of 2024, the Marine Corps has already taken a number of actions to address this recommendation, to include holding several meetings to specifically discuss new initiatives to address these challenges. The Marine Corps identified that it is also creating a new Tactical Vehicle Off-Road Instructor Military Occupational Specialty to help manage commands' licensing requirements and driver training needs. The Marine Corps estimates that this action will be completed in June of 2024. By taking these actions the Marine Corps will improve tactical driver training, as recommended by GAO in July 2021.

Suicide Prevention: DOD Should Enhance Oversight, Staffing, Guidance, and Training Affecting Certain Remote Installations

GAO-22-105108
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should develop a process to ensure that command suicide prevention program managers complete required training. (Recommendation 12)
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The Navy concurred with this recommendation, and in July 2022, stated that the Navy will update its suicide prevention policy to ensure that suicide prevention program managers complete required training. In August 2023, the Navy stated that the update to its instruction is in progress but has been delayed due to the incorporation of additional requirements. In December 2023, the Navy stated that the policy update will be completed by June 2024. When we confirm what actions the Navy has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Military Correctional Facilities: Consistent Application of Standards and Improved Oversight Could Enhance Health and Safety

GAO-23-105082
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps develops a plan for correcting deficiencies identified from higher-level inspections and audits at the Camp Lejeune and Camp Pendleton MCFs. (Recommendation 2)
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DOD concurred with this recommendation. As of February 2023 DOD stated that the Marine Corps is drafting policy that will require corrective action plans, if needed, in response to all higher-level inspections. DOD estimates that this action will be complete in December 2023.

Unwanted Sexual Behavior: Improved Guidance, Access to Care, and Training Needed to Better Address Victims' Behavioral Health Needs

GAO-23-105381
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that Navy guidance on involuntary officer and enlisted administrative separations is modified to require that the Navy's standardized separation notification correspondence includes information about the general or flag officer review for victims of sexual assault. (Recommendation 14)
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DOD concurred with this recommendation. To fully implement GAO's recommendation, the Navy needs to modify its guidance on involuntary officer and enlisted administrative separations to require that the Navy's standardized separation notification correspondence includes information about the general or flag officer review for victims of sexual assault.
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