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Army Watercraft: Actions Needed to Optimize Small but Critical Fleet

GAO-25-106387
Oct 16, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Deputy Chief of Staff G-3/5/7, in consultation with the Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and Commander, U.S. Army Pacific Command, develops a mitigation plan addressing challenges to the watercraft fleet, reducing risks, and bridging and mitigating gaps in Army watercraft capability and capacity, to meet current and near-term mission and campaign plan requirements in the Indo-Pacific theater. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that Headquarters, Department of the Army G-3/5/7 in consultation with Commander, Indo-Pacific Command, and Commander, U.S. Army Pacific Command, assesses the costs and benefits of potential courses of action to improve the ability of Army watercraft to meet current and near-term mission requirements. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Watercraft Governance Board develops and issues a governance framework that reflects GAO's leading practices for effective governance. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Watercraft Governance Board, in conjunction with other Army stakeholders, take actions to develop integrated strategies that identify, analyze, and respond to persistent maintenance challenges, including significant and unanticipated maintenance delays, fully capturing maintenance data within Army enterprise-wide system, and ensuring that maintenance manuals are issued in a timely manner. (Recommendation 4)
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Columbia Class Submarine: Overcoming Persistent Challenges Requires Yet Undemonstrated Performance and Better-Informed Supplier Investments

GAO-24-107732
Sep 30, 2024
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5 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commander for SUPSHIP has Electric Boat revise its cost estimate at completion to incorporate all remaining identified program risks and reflect likely levels of program performance based on historical trends. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commander for SUPSHIP, in conjunction with the Columbia class submarine program office, has Electric Boat produce EVM reporting that includes key elements of variance analysis needed to better address future risks, such as an explanation of root cause, impacts to cost and schedule, and corrective actions. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Columbia class submarine program, in conjunction with Electric Boat and Newport News, consistently identifies the information needed to determine whether production improvements and cost savings from supplier development funding are sufficiently supporting Columbia class construction goals. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commander for SUPSHIP has the SUPSHIPs Groton and Newport News update planning to ensure they have adequate resources and staffing needed to conduct quality assurance oversight of outsourced work at Electric Boat and Newport News strategic supplier facilities. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Columbia class submarine program, in conjunction with the Deputy Commander for SUPSHIP, has Electric Boat update planning for submarine outsourcing, including expected hours and locations of outsourced work, to help SUPSHIP identify quality assurance oversight risks and request necessary resources. (Recommendation 5)
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Transition to Civilian Life: Additional Data Analysis and Reporting Would Improve Special Operations Forces Experiences [Reissued with revisions on Sep. 30, 2024]

GAO-24-106587
Sep 30, 2024
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5 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command directs the Commander, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in coordination with the Army, to analyze data on TAP and TAP participation annually, including relevant SOF characteristics such as specific occupational specialties, and develop corrective action plans if appropriate. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command directs the Commander, U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command, in coordination with the Navy, to analyze data on TAP and TAP participation annually, including relevant SOF characteristics such as specific occupational specialties, and develop corrective action plans if appropriate. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command directs the Commander. US Marine Forces Special Operations Command, in coordination with the Marine Corps, to analyze data on TAP and TAP participation annually, including relevant SOF characteristics such as specific occupational specialties, and develop corrective action plans if appropriate. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command directs the Commander, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, in coordination with the Air Force, to analyze data on TAP and TAP participation annually, including relevant SOF characteristics such as specific occupational specialties, and develop corrective action plans if appropriate. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command collects and submits to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC), annually, a report on TAP data and any corrective action plans and any other transition activities identified by the SOF component commands. (Recommendation 5)
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Hanford Cleanup: Alternatives for Treating and Disposing of High-Level Waste Could Save Billions of Dollars and Reduce Certain Risks

GAO-24-106989
Sep 26, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Congress Congress should consider clarifying—in a manner that does not impair the regulatory authorities of EPA and the State of Washington—DOE's authority at Hanford to determine, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, whether portions of the tank waste can be managed as a waste type other than high-level radioactive waste. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should ensure that the Senior Advisor for Environmental Management targets research and development projects for addressing Hanford's HLW toward known approaches that have the potential to reduce risks, schedule, and costs, such as the approaches identified by experts in this report and those in the 2022 Research and Development Roadmap for Hanford Tank Waste Mission Acceleration. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should ensure that the Senior Advisor for Environmental Management has an independent analysis performed, such as by a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, on opportunities to optimize, in a manner that is protective of human health and the environment, the portion of Hanford's high-level waste that should be managed, treated, and disposed of as high-level radioactive waste based on the physical characteristics of the waste. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should ensure the Senior Advisor for Environmental Management pauses engineering design, reconfiguration, and construction activities on the HLW Facility at Hanford until DOE (1) defines a mission need for the HLW project that is independent of a particular facility, technological solution, or physical end-item; (2) considers the results of an independent analysis of opportunities to optimize the portion of Hanford's HLW that should be managed, treated, and disposed as high-level radioactive waste; and (3) addresses technical issues with the HLW Facility identified by DNFSB. (Recommendation 3)
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