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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Program Continues to Encounter Production Issues and Modernization Delays

Published: May 16, 2024

Publicly Released: May 16, 2024

Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

Published: May 14, 2024

Publicly Released: May 14, 2024

Military Readiness: Actions Needed for DOD to Address Challenges across the Air, Sea, Ground, and Space Domains

Published: May 01, 2024

Publicly Released: May 01, 2024

VA Disability Benefits: Actions Needed to Address Challenges Reserve Component Members Face Accessing Compensation

Published: Oct 30, 2023

Publicly Released: Oct 30, 2023

DOD Financial Management: Efforts to Address Auditability and Systems Challenges Need to Continue

Published: Jul 13, 2023

Publicly Released: Jul 13, 2023

Space Command and Control: Improved Tracking and Reporting Would Clarify Progress amid Persistent Delays

Published: Jun 08, 2023

Publicly Released: Jun 08, 2023

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Open Recommendations (109 total)

Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

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Agency Affected	Recommendation	Status
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by conducting a needs assessment of its child care workforce to inform future workforce planning. (Recommendation 6)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

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Agency Affected	Recommendation	Status
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 5)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

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Agency Affected	Recommendation	Status
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General develops and implements a strategy to communicate the establishment of and service leadership support for the military justice career path. (Recommendation 3)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

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7 Open Recommendations

Agency Affected	Recommendation	Status
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General assesses the need for experience standards tailored to the responsibilities of individual Air Force military justice litigation positions, such as supervisory litigation positions and defense counsel, and implements any recommendations from the assessment. (Recommendation 21)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should issue guidance to require the inclusion of judge advocates with relevant professional experience, such as a participant in the Air Force's military justice career path, on judge advocate promotion boards. (Recommendation 6)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance requiring a periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Air Force military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 17)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force	The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance that addresses the risk that the perishability of litigation skills poses to the use of skill levels for Air Force litigators, such as specifying the maximum time a recipient may serve in a non-litigation role before the skill level must be reviewed. (Recommendation 8)	Open When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

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