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Weapon Systems Sustainment: DOD Needs to Improve Its Reporting for Warehousing Pilot Program

GAO-23-105929
Mar 09, 2023
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3 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment performs a complete costeffectiveness analysis of the pilot program that follows the guidelines established in DOD Instruction 7041.03. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment develops guidance to assess how support contracts in the warehousing pilot program may affect contractors' ability to meet the requirements of the primary contracts. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment assesses how support contracts in the warehousing pilot program may affect contractors' ability to meet the requirements of the primary contracts and reports its results to Congress. (Recommendation 3)
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Middle-Tier Defense Acquisitions: Rapid Prototyping and Fielding Requires Changes to Oversight and Development Approaches

GAO-23-105008
Feb 07, 2023
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and President of the Defense Acquisition University together update the Adaptive Acquisition Framework Documentation Identification tool to accurately reflect MTA documentation requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of Air Force should ensure that processes required under MTA policy for use of the MTA pathway are fully established and documented. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that processes required under MTA policy for use of the MTA pathway are fully established and documented. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that processes required under MTA policy for use of the MTA pathway are fully established and documented. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander of Special Operations Command fully establishes and documents processes required under MTA policy for use of the MTA pathway. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment improve its MTA data framework and reporting guidance to better capture program structure and changes in MTA program scope. (Recommendation 6)
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Administrative Separation Boards: Air Force Should Clarify Member Qualifications

GAO-23-105780
Feb 02, 2023
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should issue clarifying guidance for the Department of the Air Force's enlisted administrative separation board policy to make it clear that the required qualifications of enlisted voting members are E-7 or higher, consistent with those specified in the Department of Defense's enlisted administrative separation board policy. (Recommendation 1)
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Contested Information Environment: Actions Needed to Strengthen Education and Training for DOD Leaders

GAO-23-105608
Jan 26, 2023
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in consultation with the combatant commands and the military services, develops department-wide guidance about what content to include in its education and training efforts for decision-making in a contested information environment, as well as the type and frequency of such efforts necessary for leaders to develop skills in this area. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, the combatant commands, and the military services, conducts an assessment and comprehensively reviews related component assessments of the resources necessary to meet current needs for educating and training leaders to make decisions in a contested information environment. The assessment should also identify modifications, if any, needed to improve the results of future education and training efforts to increase the preparedness of DOD's leaders to make such decisions. (Recommendation 2)
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