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Small Business Innovation Research: Agencies Need to Fully Implement Requirements for Managing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

GAO-21-413
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the SBIR/STTR program tracks referrals to the Office of Inspector General or Naval Criminal Investigative Service. (Recommendation 6)
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The Navy did not concur with this recommendation, stating that it was already in compliance with this requirement because the Navy OIG and Naval Criminal Investigative Service track referrals. However, the requirement is for agencies to track the referrals, not for the agency OIGs or military investigative offices to do so. In October 2021, the Navy SBIR/STTR program office said that it will institute a process for tracking fraud referrals to the Navy's investigative offices by March 2022. As of January 2023, the Navy had not provided documentation of the process. We will update the status of this recommendation when the Navy provides further information.

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 should establish procedures and conduct ongoing monitoring and reporting of program performance and results from predictive maintenance for major weapon systems. (Recommendation 15)
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The Department of the Navy concurred with this recommendation, stating that the Department of the Navy is aligned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense's initiatives to develop and implement mechanisms for tracking and understanding sustainment data. In January 2024, the Navy stated it will identify and report sustainment metrics through various dashboards, and it will support senior DOD sustainment forums with data driven analysis into sustainment performance metrics. When we confirm what actions the Department of the Navy has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Small Business Research Programs: Agencies Should Further Improve Award Timeliness

GAO-22-104677
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should evaluate the effectiveness of steps taken to improve SBIR and STTR award timeliness and take any necessary additional steps in order to consistently meet SBA award timeliness guidelines. (Recommendation 19)
Open – Partially Addressed
In its February 2022 letter responding to our report, DOD concurred with this recommendation. The Department of the Navy provided information demonstrating its evaluation of award timeliness, which indicated that prior efforts to address timeliness did not have a lasting effect into the FY 2021 award cycle. As a result, the Navy will continue efforts to evaluate its performance and is considering additional steps to improve timeliness, according to DOD's letter and the information Navy provided. In December 2023, we obtained and analyzed publicly available Navy award data for FY22. Our analysis indicated that the Navy did not meet SBA's award timeliness guidelines in FY22. Further, in combination with prior fiscal years, the Navy has not met SBA's timeliness guidelines in at least 3 of the preceding 5 years based on available data. Going forward, we will follow up to obtain data on the Navy's award timeliness in subsequent fiscal years to determine if actions the agency has taken have resulted in it being able to consistently meet SBA's award timeliness guidelines.

Littoral Combat Ship: Actions Needed to Address Significant Operational Challenges and Implement Planned Sustainment Approach

GAO-22-105387
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that Naval Sea Systems Command updates the cost estimates for the LCS to include operating and support costs, incorporate data from completed LCS deployments, and reflect current and planned revised operational and sustainment concepts. (Recommendation 3)
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DOD concurred with our recommendation. In January 2022, Navy officials stated that efforts to address this recommendation are being undertaken by Naval Sea Systems Command and Task Force LCS. Specifically, they plan to update 2021 Selected Acquisition Reports with complete operating and support data that incorporates deployment costs and maintenance team employment. Navy officials told us that the department expects to complete these efforts by the fourth quarter of FY 2022. As of February 2023, the Navy had not provided an update on actions taken to implement this recommendation. In September 2023, DOD informed us that it had requested a status update from the Navy and would provide an update upon receiving the response. We will periodically follow up with the Navy on its progress.

Middle-Tier Defense Acquisitions: Rapid Prototyping and Fielding Requires Changes to Oversight and Development Approaches

GAO-23-105008
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should identify and implement additional actions needed to improve the reliability of MTA program data the Navy submits to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. (Recommendation 9)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Ground Combat Forces: The Marine Corps Should Take Actions to Track Training Funds and Link Them to Readiness

GAO-19-233
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps assesses C2RAM to determine the extent to which this system, or elements of this system, should be adapted for use in an enterprise-wide performance management process linking resources to readiness. (Recommendation 3)
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In August 2022, the Navy informed GAO that it had begun steps to address this recommendation but progress is currently on hold. Specifically, the Marine Corps' Programs and Resources (P&R) Department supported the transition of the Cost to Run a MEF (C2RAM) from a stand-alone database to a web-enabled platform within the Marine Corps Training Information Management System (MCTIMS) program. In fiscal year 2021, P&R led the development of draft guidelines for the use of the platform -- now called UTRM-- but the Marine Corps decided not to fully fund, implement, or support providing guidance for the use of UTRM in FY21, so development and implementation efforts ceased in June 2021. MCTIMs is currently undergoing a code freeze, with no new updates while the Marine Corps works to transition MCTIMS to the cloud. The Marine Corps expects MCTIMS 2.0 to be live by the end of fiscal year 2025, and stated that a determination will be made at that time regarding the desired functionality, funding, and guidance related to the UTRM portion. We requested an update on the status of this recommendation, but as of August 2023, DOD had not provided one. We will continue to monitor actions taken related to this recommendation and provide updates as appropriate.

Navy Shipbuilding: Increasing Supervisors of Shipbuilding Responsibility Could Help Improve Program Outcomes

GAO-22-104655
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that, prior to contract award decisions, the Naval Sea Systems Command evaluates the extent to which awarding a shipbuilding contract to a prime contractor that is not the shipbuilder presents additional government risk related to contractor business systems compliance and determine options, as needed, to mitigate the risk. (Recommendation 3)
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The Department of the Navy concurred with this recommendation. In March 2023, the Navy stated that they posted Naval Sea Systems Command guidance on the SEA 022 (Contract Shipbuilding Division) site. However, as of September 2023, the Navy has yet to provide evidence that demonstrates implementation of this recommendation. We will continue to monitor the Navy's efforts to respond to our recommendation.

Defense Analysis: Additional Actions Could Enhance DOD's Wargaming Efforts

GAO-23-105351
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should evaluate the costs and benefits of developing standard wargaming education and qualifications for wargaming personnel, including red cell players, and implement any findings from the evaluation. (Recommendation 7)
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DOD concurred with our recommendation. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Weapon Systems Cybersecurity: Guidance Would Help DOD Programs Better Communicate Requirements to Contractors

GAO-21-179
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Department of the Navy
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The Secretary of the Navy should take steps to ensure the Marine Corps develops guidance for acquisition programs on how to incorporate tailored weapon systems cybersecurity requirements, acceptance criteria, and verification processes into contracts. (Recommendation 3)
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The Navy partially concurred with our recommendation, stating that a separate recommendation to the Marine Corps was unnecessary given that the Navy and Marine Corps operate under a single acquisition construct. We determined that separate recommendations to each component were appropriate because each maintains independent policies and guidance relevant to weapon systems cybersecurity. In April 2022, the Navy issued an updated instruction governing the Department's program acquisition and sustainment policies and procedures. The instruction includes a new enclosure on cybersecurity requirements, which reinforces the importance of cybersecurity as a design and systems engineering consideration throughout the program lifecycle. However, the instruction does not address contracting for cybersecurity requirements. In February 2023, Navy officials stated that they were developing a new instruction on technology and program protection management, which will include more specific language related to contracting for cybersecurity requirements. Officials stated that they expect to finalize the new instruction by December 2023.

Military Service Academies: Actions Needed to Better Assess Organizational Climate

GAO-22-105130
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy develops internal controls that ensure all military equal opportunity complaints are documented in such a way that they are readily available for examination. [Recommendation 4]
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The Secretary of the Navy concurred with this recommendation. According to an update provided to GAO on December 1, 2022, the United States Naval Academy is working to develop new processes to track all formal, informal, and anonymous complaints, including data sharing between key actors. The update further stated that the Academy plans to conduct monthly audits of official complaints. As of February 2024, we are continuing to monitor the actions taken to implement this recommendation.
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