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DOD Acquisition Reform: Military Departments Should Take Steps to Facilitate Speed and Innovation

GAO-25-107003
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should revise its acquisition policies and relevant guidance to reflect leading practices that facilitate speed and innovation, using continuous iterative cycles that ensure the design meets user needs, the development of a minimum viable product, and the optimization of processes to produce further iterations. (Recommendation 2)
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DOD Acquisition Reform: Military Departments Should Take Steps to Facilitate Speed and Innovation

GAO-25-107003
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should designate one or more new cyber-physical capabilities as pilot programs that provide lessons learned on using leading practices to facilitate speed and innovation for programs on each acquisition pathway directly related to weapon systems. (Recommendation 5)
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Military Health Care: Departments Should Update Policies for Providers in Operational Settings Like Field Hospitals and Aircraft Carriers

GAO-25-106445
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Department of the Army The Surgeon General of the Army should draft and issue, as soon as possible, a policy outlining processes for its provider privileging and clinical performance evaluations in operational settings to help ensure quality care for service members. This policy should include whether and to whom privileging authority will be delegated. (Recommendation 3)
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Military Recruiting: Actions Needed to Address Digital Marketing Challenges

GAO-25-106719
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Chief of the Army Enterprise Marketing Office assesses whether the Army should adopt and document internal processes to improve predictability and consistency of marketing funds. (Recommendation 6)
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Military Officer Performance: Actions Needed to Fully Incorporate Performance Evaluation Key Practices

GAO-25-106618
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should assess the design, implementation, and outcomes associated with the Army's forced distribution model and consider alternatives as necessary based on the findings of the assessment. (Recommendation 10)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should develop a plan for regularly evaluating the Army's performance evaluation system, including system tools and processes. (Recommendation 15)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should revise the Army's performance evaluation system policy to require the provision of performance feedback to all officers at key points in the process, including following the completion of a performance evaluation report. (Recommendation 11)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should develop a mechanism, such as a signature block on the Army's evaluation report, to capture the provision of performance feedback to officers with their performance evaluation report. (Recommendation 12)
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Military Officer Performance: Actions Needed to Fully Incorporate Performance Evaluation Key Practices

GAO-25-106618
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should develop a plan for the delivery of training on the Army's performance evaluation system to all officers on an ongoing basis. (Recommendation 1)
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Army Watercraft: Actions Needed to Optimize Small but Critical Fleet

GAO-25-106387
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Deputy Chief of Staff G-3/5/7, in consultation with the Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and Commander, U.S. Army Pacific Command, develops a mitigation plan addressing challenges to the watercraft fleet, reducing risks, and bridging and mitigating gaps in Army watercraft capability and capacity, to meet current and near-term mission and campaign plan requirements in the Indo-Pacific theater. (Recommendation 1)
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