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As of May 2, 2024, there are 5092 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 413 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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Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries

GAO-24-105503
Shelby S. Oakley
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5 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
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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Congress Congress should consider requiring, as part of section 8669c of title 10, United States Code, that the Navy certify that detail design will be completed for each block of a ship's construction before beginning construction of that block. (Matter for Consideration 2)
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Congress Congress should consider requiring, as part of section 8669c of title 10, United States Code, that the Navy report on the degree of vendor-furnished information completeness supporting the overall maturity and stability of a ship's design before beginning construction. (Matter for Consideration 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that each shipbuilding program reevaluates validated requirements in capability development documents before the start of construction for individual ships and periodically during ship construction to confirm their continued relevance and identify any appropriate changes. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that shipbuilding programs complete functional design for new ships before awarding detail design and construction contracts. (Recommendation 2)
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NASA Cybersecurity: Plan Needed to Update Spacecraft Acquisition Policies and Standards

GAO-24-106624
William Russell, Kevin Walsh
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
National Aeronautics and Space Administration The NASA Administrator should ensure that the Chief Engineer, the Chief Information Officer, and the Principal Advisor for Enterprise Protection develop an implementation plan with time frames to update its spacecraft acquisition policies and standards to incorporate essential controls required to protect against cyber threats. (Recommendation 1)
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Foreign Assistance: USAID Should Strengthen Risk Management in Conflict Zones

GAO-24-106192
Latesha Love-Grayer
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9 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that BHA conducts comprehensive assessments of fraud risks relevant to its responses in Nigeria, Somalia, and Ukraine and develops response-specific fraud risk profiles based on those assessments. (Recommendation 1)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that CPS conducts a comprehensive assessment of fraud risks relevant to its program in Ukraine and develops a program-specific fraud risk profile based on that assessment. (Recommendation 2)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the USAID Nigeria mission conducts comprehensive assessments of fraud risks relevant to its programs and develops program-specific fraud risk profiles based on those assessments. (Recommendation 3)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the USAID Somalia mission conducts comprehensive assessments of fraud risks relevant to its programs and develops program-specific fraud risk profiles based on those assessments. (Recommendation 4)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the USAID Ukraine mission conducts comprehensive assessments of fraud risks relevant to its programs and develops program-specific fraud risk profiles based on those assessments. (Recommendation 5)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the USAID Somalia mission develops a risk-based process for conducting financial reviews. (Recommendation 6)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management updates its third-party monitoring guidance to incorporate methods for detecting fiduciary, counterterrorism- or sanctions-related, and security risks into third-party monitoring contracts. (Recommendation 7)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management creates guidance based on a review of available remote monitoring tools for USAID missions to detect fiduciary, counterterrorism- or sanctions-related, and security risks in nonpermissive environments. (Recommendation 8)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should develop a mechanism for systematically sharing lessons learned among conflict-affected missions related to the management of risks that are common across conflict zones. (Recommendation 9)
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IT Modernization: Census Bureau Needs Reliable Cost and Schedule Estimates

GAO-24-105979
Kevin Walsh
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5 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the Director of the Census Bureau to ensure that the CEDSCI program consistently documents user stories to ensure bidirectional traceability with requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the Director of the Census Bureau to ensure that the CEDSCI program develops reliable cost estimates using best practices described in GAO's <i>Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide</i>, in particular those practices related to the comprehensive and credible characteristics. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the Director of the Census Bureau to ensure that the CEDSCI program develops its schedule using the best practices described in GAO's Schedule Assessment Guide. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the Director of the Census Bureau to ensure that the OCIO incorporates key elements, such as time frames, into its DevSecOps strategy and finalizes it in a timely manner. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the Director of the Census Bureau to ensure that the American Community Survey program develops a plan, including time frames, for the steps they intend to take to determine the most appropriate methods to protect respondent privacy in the publicly available data releases. (Recommendation 5)
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