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Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

GAO-24-106524
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 7)
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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

GAO-24-106165
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9 Open Recommendations
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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 Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General formally evaluates Army policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 10)
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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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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 collects information on retention rates of participants in the Army's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Army's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 22)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General develops and implements a strategy to communicate the establishment of and service leadership support for the military justice career path. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General issues guidance requiring a periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Army military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 14)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should issue guidance requiring specified experience requirements for specific positions which litigators must meet for assignment unless the Judge Advocate General documents a waiver for a given situation. (Recommendation 9)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army Judge Advocate General develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Army military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing judge advocate exit survey process to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Army's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 26)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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