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Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries
GAO-24-105503
May 02, 2024
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11 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should develop a robust digital ship design library to enhance the Navy's ability to leverage existing designs and expedite design and construction. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should—in coordination with Navy shipbuilders—evaluate opportunities to accelerate the receipt of reliable vendor-furnished information to support earlier design maturity for new ships. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should evaluate the response timelines for reviewing and approving design products and the sufficiency of the Navy's resources supporting design review and decision-making processes to identify any opportunities to shorten design review timelines. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should establish—and regularly update, as needed— guidance outlining the information and evaluation methodology used to certify the completion of basic and functional design prior to a ship's construction start for any major shipbuilding program, to include the Navy's explanation of what design activities and outputs must be accomplished to meet the statutory requirement for completion of a ship's basic and functional design. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should evaluate opportunities to increase the use of modern design tools, including digital twinning and virtual or augmented reality. (Recommendation 8)
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Congress Congress should consider updating statutory certification and production readiness review reporting requirements for Navy shipbuilding programs under section 8669c of title 10 United States Code, to require certification of the completion of basic and functional design in 3D modeling and the positioning and routing of all major distributive systems prior to the start of construction (consistent with leading industry practices in ship design). (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms
GAO-24-106165
May 02, 2024
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35 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure the Army Judge Advocate General issues guidance that addresses the risk that the perishability of litigation skills poses to the use of skill levels for Army litigators, such as specifying the maximum time a recipient may serve in a non-litigation role before the skill level must be reviewed. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Army military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 18)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander, Air Force Personnel Center, in conjunction with the Air Force Judge Advocate General, develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Air Force military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing service-wide exit survey processes to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 29)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance that addresses the risk that the perishability of litigation skills poses to the use of skill levels for Air Force litigators, such as specifying the maximum time a recipient may serve in a non-litigation role before the skill level must be reviewed. (Recommendation 8)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Navy military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 19)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General collects and maintains staffing data on actual staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Army's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 30)
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Military Justice: Quality Data Needed to Improve Oversight of Navy and Marine Corps Disciplinary Measures
GAO-24-106652
Apr 18, 2024
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Chief of Naval Operations establishes a time frame for automating the Navy's process to collect and maintain quality nonjudicial punishment data in its personnel database and then implements this automated process. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps establishes a time frame for automating the Marine Corps' process to collect and maintain quality nonjudicial punishment data in its personnel database and then implements this automated process. (Recommendation 2)
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Counternarcotics: DOD Should Improve Coordination and Assessment of Its Activities
GAO-24-106281
Apr 16, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy updates standard operating procedures for the C2IE data system to specify the quality control measures that should be reviewed and to assign responsibility for verifying that the information is accurate and consistent across combatant commands. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy works with INDOPACOM, SOUTHCOM, and NORTHCOM to develop up-to-date agreements that clarify and define their and their task forces' respective roles and responsibilities in the overlapping operation area. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy identifies measurable outcomes for each of DOD's CN/CTOC strategic objectives that can be used to assess progress toward the objective. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy develops a plan to assess DOD-wide progress toward its CN/CTOC strategic objectives. (Recommendation 4)
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