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As of May 2, 2024, there are 5131 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 Readiness: Actions Needed to Improve the Reliability and Management of Ship Crewing Data

GAO-24-105811
Diana Maurer
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11 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet amend guidance to require documentation of the review process—to include the factors they consider—when determining whether enlisted crewing target levels should be adjusted. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Navy Personnel Command Career Management Department—removes the rules that allow junior sailors to count as filling positions of senior sailors in the Navy's fill and fit metrics, including when having to provide such data in certain reports to Congress pursuant to section 597 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2020. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Navy Personnel Command Career Management Department—reviews all business rules and source system data that inform the calculations for fill and fit metrics and aligns them across relevant documents for consistency to ensure the quality of data it uses to monitor ship readiness. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Navy Personnel Command Career Management Department—establishes thresholds for measuring Navy enlisted classification fill and fit metrics against funded positions and personnel requirements, and reports this information to Congress, when required to report pursuant to section 597 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2020. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet—updates guidance related to (1) personnel policies and procedures and (2) enlisted crewing target levels to clearly and consistently describe those personnel requirements and what they represent in TFMMS. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with the Navy Manpower Analysis Center—updates guidance related to (1) personnel policies and procedures and (2) personnel management data elements and values to clearly and consistently reflect that only NAVMAC can validate personnel requirements for ships. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with Navy Manpower Analysis Center—updates guidance concerning change requests—such as those made by budget submitting offices—to require that the Navy Manpower Analysis Center review and validate such changes when they concern personnel requirements data. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with the Navy Manpower Analysis Center—reviews the quality of personnel requirements data in TFMMS to ensure that such data reliably and accurately represent validated requirements for use within the Navy, to include within Navy personnel systems. (Recommendation 8)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Integration of Capabilities and Resources updates relevant guidance to specify what documents represent validated personnel requirements that should be used when making decisions about what positions to fund for the upcoming budget cycle during the Program Objective Memorandum process. (Recommendation 9)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer develops and implements a timeframe to finalize the governance structure for the Business Mission Area for Navy's information technology. (Recommendation 10)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations—in coordination with Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Personnel, Manpower, and Training/Chief of Naval Personnel—develops and implements a timeframe to finalize governance structures for data and information technology management as the Navy continues to transform personnel systems—including ensuring all boards and forums are active; and documenting data processes to help ensure the quality and reliability of system data used to inform and monitor crewing levels, such as fill and fit metrics data. (Recommendation 11)
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National Mediation Board: Agency Should Take Steps to Regularly Update Its Plans and Policies and Ensure Staff Receive Necessary Training

GAO-24-106828
John D. Sawyer
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
National Mediation Board The NMB Board should establish procedures for regularly updating its workforce and succession plan. These procedures should help ensure that NMB's workforce and succession plan is long-term in focus and includes a workforce analysis that identifies skills gaps, an action plan with strategies to close gaps, plans to implement those strategies, and measures to assess progress as described in OPM's Workforce Planning Guide. (Recommendation 1)
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National Mediation Board The NMB Board should establish procedures for regularly updating its agency-wide training policy. (Recommendation 2)
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National Mediation Board The NMB Board should provide officials who are assigned essential additional roles with sufficient training and information, including position descriptions, necessary to understand and carry out the full scope of their responsibilities. (Recommendation 3)
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National Mediation Board The NMB Board should develop procedures to ensure it has all necessary personnel policies in place and that they are regularly reviewed and updated to meet the needs of the agency and comply with federal requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Financial Literacy: Better Outcome Reporting Could Facilitate Oversight of Programs for Older Adults and People with Disabilities

GAO-24-106381
Alicia Puente Cackley
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury, as chair of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should coordinate with the vice chair and agencies represented on the Commission to encourage the ongoing collection of data on financial literacy program outcomes and include these data in the Commission's annual report to Congress. (Recommendation 1)
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Director of CFPB, as vice chair of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should coordinate with the chair and agencies represented on the Commission to encourage the ongoing collection of data on financial literacy program outcomes and include these data in the Commission's annual report to Congress. (Recommendation 2)
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Federal Maritime Commission: Improved Use of Data on Shippers' Complaints Could Enhance Oversight

GAO-24-106368
Andrew Von Ah
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3 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Federal Maritime Commission The Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission should develop an outreach plan for communicating information about FMC's various complaint processes to shippers. Such a plan should align with leading practices for effective outreach. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Maritime Commission The Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission should review the CADRS complaint form to ensure it is collecting specific information on shippers' challenges. (Recommendation 2)
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Federal Maritime Commission The Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission should update the procedures for FMC's CADRS and BEIC offices to ensure they include all actions staff can take in response to shippers' concerns, such as analyzing complaint data, and establish requirements for future reviews and updates. (Recommendation 3)
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