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As of April 27, 2024, there are 5078 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 418 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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Ukraine: DOD Should Improve Data for Both Defense Article Delivery and End-Use Monitoring

GAO-24-106289
Chelsa L. Kenney
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6 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should develop a process to regularly assess and improve the accuracy of the delivery data in the DOD system of record for PDA. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should assess the process used to track delivery of defense articles provided to Ukraine using USAI—including roles, responsibilities, and data systems—and take steps to remediate any identified challenges. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should develop a process to regularly assess and improve the accuracy of the delivery data for defense articles provided to Ukraine under USAI in established data systems. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should formally evaluate the modified EUM requirements and practices in Ukraine to ensure they are meeting program objectives and use the results of the assessment to update requirements for monitoring defense articles in a hostile environment, as appropriate. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should instruct DSCA to develop a plan to track the status of routine EUM items provided under PDA in DOD data systems. (Recommendation 7)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should update current DSCA guidance for tracking potential end-use violations in a hostile environment to clarify which allegations of such violations should be recorded in its master repository. (Recommendation 8)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Defense Contracting: DOD Should Encourage Greater Use of Existing Expertise to Review Indemnification Requests

GAO-24-106403
Shelby S. Oakley
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Principal Director of Defense Pricing and Contracting encourages contracting officials to consider the use of DCMA insurance reviews performed by its Contractor Insurance/Pension Review group when evaluating indemnification requests. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Cybersecurity: Improvements Needed in Addressing Risks to Operational Technology

GAO-24-106576
Marisol Cruz Cain
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency The Director of CISA should (1) measure customer service for all of its OT products and services and (2) use the results of such measures to make improvements to the products and services. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency The Director of CISA should (1) develop OT competency and staffing requirements, (2) assess OT competency and staffing gaps, and (3) develop strategies for filling any gaps. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency The Director of CISA should issue guidance on how SRMAs should update sector-specific plans that reflects the five selected leading collaboration practices when agencies are mitigating cyber OT risks. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency The Director of CISA should (1) develop an agency-wide policy on agreements with SRMAs regarding collaboration to mitigate OT risks and (2) implement that policy with the selected agencies. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Freedom of Information Act: Additional Guidance and Reliable Data Can Help Address Agency Backlogs

GAO-24-106535
James (Jay) R. McTigue, Jr
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Justice The Attorney General should direct the Director of the Office of Information Policy to issue guidance advising agencies to include elements of effective action plans in their backlog reduction plans. Such elements include identifying and analyzing root causes of their backlog; identifying actions the agency will take to address those root causes; and establishing specific backlog reduction goals, performance measures, and milestones for tracking progress. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Justice The Attorney General should direct the Director of the Office of Information Policy to issue guidance advising agencies to identify actions in their backlog reduction plans to help ensure staff with the necessary skills are available to support reduction efforts. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Justice The Attorney General should direct the Director of the Office of Information Policy (OIP) to develop a process for OIP to more closely examine the data agencies report on component-level FOIA requests and average request processing times to help agencies ensure they report accurate average processing times. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Justice The Attorney General should direct the Director of the Office of Information Policy (OIP) to update the materials for OIP's training on annual FOIA reporting to highlight that agencies are required to report weighted average processing times for FOIA requests, and include instructions on how agencies should calculate their weighted average processing times. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Bank Supervision: More Timely Escalation of Supervisory Action Needed

GAO-24-106974
Michael Clements
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Congress Congress should consider requiring the adoption of noncapital triggers that require early and forceful regulatory actions tied to unsafe banking practices before they impair capital, such as by amending the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to incorporate noncapital triggers into the prompt corrective action framework. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Board of Governors The Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors should ensure that the Director of the Division of Supervision and Regulation revise its procedures on when to escalate supervisory concerns to informal or formal enforcement actions to be clearer and more specific and to include measurable criteria. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Higher Education: Employment Discrimination Case Referrals Between Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Could Be Improved

GAO-24-105516
Melissa Emrey-Arras
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Education Education should track the number of days it takes regional offices to refer employment discrimination complaints to EEOC and use the information to develop a plan to reduce referral delays. Such a plan could include applying good practices from certain regional offices agency-wide, or reallocating resources. (Recommendation 1)
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Education agreed with this recommendation and stated that it will develop a system to track the number of days it takes to refer employment discrimination complaints to EEOC. Education also stated that it will periodically review the new data to identify any effective measures to reduce referral times, and make appropriate changes, depending on available resources. We continue to recommend that Education, in addition to developing the tracking system, use the resulting data and information from the periodic reviews to develop a plan to reduce referral delays. We will monitor the agency's
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC should develop and finalize a protocol to ensure that its field offices receive and process all complaint referrals from Education. The protocol could include: consistently documenting the referrals in its new data system; communicating regularly with Education on the number of complaint referrals Education sends to EEOC and the number EEOC receives from Education; and reconciling any differences in the number of complaints sent and received. (Recommendation 2)
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EEOC neither agreed nor disagreed with this recommendation. The agency noted the importance of ensuring that all referrals from Education's OCR are received and processed. EEOC also noted that it will carefully consider the areas for improvement we identified. EEOC stated that in November 2023, it adopted an interim protocol with OCR to ensure receipt of all complaint referrals from OCR. Specifically, OCR is to copy EEOC headquarters officials when it refers a complaint to the appropriate EEOC field office. According to EEOC, this allows it to maintain a complete and centralized record of all

Coast Guard: Action Needed to Evaluate Efforts to Address Sexual Assault and Harassment

GAO-24-107388
Heather Macleod
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
United States Coast Guard The Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard should develop an evaluation plan with mechanisms for assessing the effectiveness of actions taken to help ensure service members have an experience aligned with Coast Guard's core values and free from sexual assault and harassment. (Recommendation 1)
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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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