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Amphibious Warfare Fleet: Navy Needs to Complete Key Efforts to Better Ensure Ships Are Available for Marines
GAO-25-106728
Dec 03, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, should refine definitions related to amphibious warfare ship availability to include specific and measurable terms. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, should establish a time frame for completing and implementing their ongoing joint plan to address ship availability concerns and ensure that the analysis results in a specific number of amphibious warfare ships that the Navy and Marine Corps require to be available at any given time. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Chief of Naval Operations updates the Navy's amphibious ship depot maintenance policy to clarify that, absent operational needs, the Navy should not cancel depot maintenance for amphibious ships proposed for divestment that have yet to reach the end of their expected service life, prior to providing the requisite certification to the congressional defense committees and completing the divestment waiver process. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Chief of Naval Operations establishes performance goals with tangible, measurable objectives and associated time frames that can be used to measure progress, for implementing the recommendations identified in the May 2023 Amphibious Readiness Review and, when completed, for implementing recommendations resulting from the Navy's April 2024 review. (Recommendation 4)
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Air Force Readiness: Actions Needed to Improve New Process for Preparing Units to Deploy
GAO-25-107017
Nov 26, 2024
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that Headquarters Air Force creates a plan that establishes timeframes for the UTC consolidation effort before DCWs deploy. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that Headquarters Air Force, in coordination with the service's major commands and installations, completes a service-wide assessment of U.S. Air Force base minimum staffing needs as it prepares to create in-garrison wings. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that Headquarters Air Force, in coordination with the service's major commands and installations, assesses potential gaps and risks associated with reduced in-garrison support for base-related missions. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that Headquarters Air Force issues an AFFORGEN implementation plan that includes leading reform practices, such as outcome-oriented goals, a timeline with key milestones, and performance measures. (Recommendation 4)
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Special Operations Forces: Additional Oversight Could Help Mitigate High-Risk Training Accidents
GAO-25-106321
Nov 21, 2024
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, performs analyses of negative safety trends when designating SOF high-risk training areas in future updates to its training directive. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, reevaluates the training assessment program to determine the number of assessments, observations, and inspections of SOF service component commands and the related resources that are needed to achieve the goals of the program. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, establishes milestones for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command establishes milestones for the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command establishes milestones for the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command establishes milestones for the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 6)
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Military Recruiting: Actions Needed to Address Digital Marketing Challenges
GAO-25-106719
Nov 20, 2024
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service defines a formal process for risk management to identify, analyze, and respond to risks related to Air Force and Space Force marketing efforts, including digital marketing. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commander of the Navy Recruiting Command clearly identifies in future iterations of the Navy's marketing plan(s) how progress toward achieving strategic goals will be measured. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commander of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command clearly identifies in future iterations of the Marine Corps' marketing plan how progress toward achieving strategic goals will be measured. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service clearly identifies in future iterations of the Air Force's and Space Force's marketing plans how progress toward achieving strategic goals will be measured. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commander of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command documents internal processes to ensure that marketing funds continue to be consistent and available. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Chief of the Army Enterprise Marketing Office assesses whether the Army should adopt and document internal processes to improve predictability and consistency of marketing funds. (Recommendation 6)
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