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Depot Maintenance: DOD Should Improve Pandemic Plans and Publish Working Capital Fund Policy

GAO-21-103
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United States Marine Corps The Commandant of the Marine Corps should ensure that the Marine Corps Maintenance Command formally record lessons learned in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and use lessons learned to update depot-specific contingency plans. (Recommendation 3)
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The Commandant of the Marine Corps concurred with this recommendation and, per the Corps March 2022 Corrective Action Plan, the Marine Depot Maintenance Command (MDMC) updated the June 2020 After Actions Report on lessons learned as well as published a Pandemic Contingency Plan within the MDMC's Emergency Action Plan (EAP) in June 2022. GAO responded that the period covered for those lessons learned should be longer to representative of the complete life cycle of the pandemic and they need to inform their EAP. In October, 2023 we met with the USMC to inform them that we concluded that the Pandemic section added to their EAP was inadequate and suggested they model their pandemic section in their EAP after COMFRC's COOP ANNEX E Pandemic Response Plan. However, as of April, 2024, the Marine Corps has not provided an update, revised CAP, or documentation to support actions that adequately address this recommendation.
United States Marine Corps The Commandant of the Marine Corps should ensure that the Marine Corps Maintenance Command develop exercises for Marine Corps Production Plants to support productivity during any long-term crisis affecting the depot workforce. (Recommendation 4)
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The Commandant of the Marine Corps concurred with this recommendation. Due to the nature of depot operations, the majority of the workforce is not eligible to telework. Execution of production is dependent on the workforce being on site and supporting supply chains that are impacted by the actions and decisions of external organizations. Marine Depot Maintenance Command (MDMC) incorporated exercises into their Emergency Action Plan (EAP), MDMCO 5100.2 (June 10, 2022), which was distributed to the external organizations that contribute to MDMC's supply chain. However, in reviewing the Pandemic section added to MDMC's EAP, we concluded it was inadequate in addressing this recommendation. The exercises and related pandemic content in the EAP lacked detailed information needed to support productivity during a long-term crisis (e.g., pandemic). As of April, 2024, the Marine Corps has not provided an update, revised CAP, or documentation to support actions that adequately address this recommendation.

Female Active-Duty Personnel: Guidance and Plans Needed for Recruitment and Retention Efforts

GAO-20-61
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United States Marine Corps The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps develops a plan, with clearly defined goals, performance measures, and timeframes, to guide and monitor the Marine Corps' female active-duty servicemember recruitment and retention efforts. (Recommendation 4)
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DOD concurred with this recommendation. In December 2021, the Marine Corps reiterated its position that they are, by law, unable to set recruitment, accession, or retention goals based on race or gender, but that they would continue to monitor and study the topics related to female servicemembers, for example recruitment. At that time, the Marine Corps noted the completion of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan in early 2021, but also stated that the plan's intent is to be a total force plan and not specific to any racial, ethnic, or gender groups. In May 2022, the Marine Corps stated it would undertake a series of other efforts to ensure diversity and inclusion plans guide recruitment and retention efforts of female service members. Subsequently, in November 2024, the Marine Corps stated that it continues to monitor and study the topic of female recruitment, accessions, promotions, deployability, and retention as a means of informing strategic-level planning. The Marine Corps further stated that it plans to conduct studies and surveys to understand factors impacting marines' decisions to stay in or separate from the Marine Corps; however, no further information, documentation, or specifics about these efforts were provided. In order to fully implement this recommendation, the United States Marine Corps will need to develop a plan with clearly defined goals, performance measures, and timeframes to guide and monitor its efforts to recruit and retain female active duty servicemembers and provide documentation, such as copies of any surveys or issued guidance documents, to support any actions the Marine Corps identifies as having taken. We will continue to monitor the Marine Corps' efforts to address this recommendation and will update the status as more information becomes available.
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