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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms
GAO-24-106165
May 02, 2024
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35 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretaries of the Military Departments collaborate to develop a standardized suite of performance measures that measure the effectiveness of the military justice career path in achieving desired outcomes. (Recommendation 34)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretaries of the Military Departments collaborate to develop and implement an evaluation plan that employs performance measures to systematically evaluate the extent of the effectiveness of the military justice career paths and consider including such information in their annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce reports to Congress. (Recommendation 35)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Air Force's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 25)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander, Air Force Personnel Center, in conjunction with the Air Force Judge Advocate General, develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Air Force military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing service-wide exit survey processes to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 29)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General formally evaluates Air Force policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 13)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force 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 Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 33)
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Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries
GAO-24-105503
May 02, 2024
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11 Open Recommendations
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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 evaluate the response timelines for reviewing and approving design products and the sufficiency of the Navy's resources supporting design review and decision-making processes to identify any opportunities to shorten design review timelines. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should establish—and regularly update, as needed— guidance outlining the information and evaluation methodology used to certify the completion of basic and functional design prior to a ship's construction start for any major shipbuilding program, to include the Navy's explanation of what design activities and outputs must be accomplished to meet the statutory requirement for completion of a ship's basic and functional design. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should evaluate opportunities to increase the use of modern design tools, including digital twinning and virtual or augmented reality. (Recommendation 8)
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Military Justice: Quality Data Needed to Improve Oversight of Navy and Marine Corps Disciplinary Measures
GAO-24-106652
Apr 18, 2024
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Chief of Naval Operations establishes a time frame for automating the Navy's process to collect and maintain quality nonjudicial punishment data in its personnel database and then implements this automated process. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps establishes a time frame for automating the Marine Corps' process to collect and maintain quality nonjudicial punishment data in its personnel database and then implements this automated process. (Recommendation 2)
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Counternarcotics: DOD Should Improve Coordination and Assessment of Its Activities
GAO-24-106281
Apr 16, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy updates standard operating procedures for the C2IE data system to specify the quality control measures that should be reviewed and to assign responsibility for verifying that the information is accurate and consistent across combatant commands. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy works with INDOPACOM, SOUTHCOM, and NORTHCOM to develop up-to-date agreements that clarify and define their and their task forces' respective roles and responsibilities in the overlapping operation area. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy identifies measurable outcomes for each of DOD's CN/CTOC strategic objectives that can be used to assess progress toward the objective. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy develops a plan to assess DOD-wide progress toward its CN/CTOC strategic objectives. (Recommendation 4)
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