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Defense Budget: Clearer Guidance Is Needed to Improve Visibility into Resourcing of Pacific Deterrence Efforts
GAO-26-107698
Nov 25, 2025
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) revises DOD's guidance on PDI to clarify program selection criteria—including those related to enhancements, RDT&E programs, facilities sustainment, and geographic location—and to establish processes, including roles and responsibilities, for selecting and validating PDI programs. [Recommendation 1]
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), in coordination with INDOPACOM, updates PDI processes to ensure that DOD reviews and considers INDOPACOM's funded priorities for inclusion in the annual PDI budget exhibit. [Recommendation 2]
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Information Environment: DOD Needs to Address Security Risks of Publicly Accessible Information
GAO-26-107492
Nov 17, 2025
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Defense Security Enterprise Executive Committee assesses existing departmental security policies and guidance to identify gaps associated with risks in the digital environment; and makes recommendations on updating policy and guidance to reduce the risks of digital information about DOD and its personnel being publicly accessible. In conducting this assessment, the executive committee should include all OSD offices that oversee security areas and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Defense Security Enterprise Executive Committee improves collaboration across the department to reduce the risks of information about DOD and its personnel being publicly accessible. Collaboration should include all OSD offices that oversee security areas and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Defense Security Enterprise Executive Committee reviews and assesses security training to ensure that digital profile issues are considered in all security areas—counterintelligence, force protection, insider threat, mission assurance, OPSEC, and program protection—and makes any appropriate recommendations for action to improve the representation of digital profile threats in security training across the department. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that U.S. Cyber Command provides security training to its workforce on threats in the security areas of counterintelligence, insider threat, and OPSEC. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force is conducting required assessments in the security areas of force protection, insider threat, and mission assurance. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army is conducting required assessments in the security areas of force protection, insider threat, and mission assurance. (Recommendation 6)
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Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: Opportunities Exist to Better Prepare for Delay in New Uranium Processing Facility
GAO-25-107330
Sep 18, 2025
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National Nuclear Security Administration The NNSA Administrator should direct the Office of Defense Programs to establish a comprehensive plan with relevant stakeholders on actions and related costs to maintain safe operations in Building 9212 until 2035 or when the program operations in the building cease. (Recommendation 1)
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Military Moves: DOD Needs Better Information to Effectively Oversee Relocation Program Reforms
GAO-25-107771
Sep 11, 2025
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should—as the department develops its path forward for DP3—ensure that the Under Secretaries of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and Personnel and Readiness, in coordination with TRANSCOM Defense Personal Property Management Office, obtain comprehensive information needed on capacity, performance, and costs to effectively oversee and manage risks to DOD's personal property program. (Recommendation 1)
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