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Hypersonic Weapons: DOD Could Reduce Cost and Schedule Risks by Following Leading Practices
GAO-24-106792
Jul 29, 2024
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10 Open Recommendations
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) Block IB effort solicits and incorporates relevant user feedback throughout development. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile effort solicits and incorporates relevant user feedback throughout development. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure the Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive anti-surface warfare effort solicits and incorporates relevant user feedback throughout development. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon effort, if further development and production is planned, solicits and incorporates relevant user feedback throughout development. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon effort assesses the practicality, benefits, and affordability of implementing digital engineering, including digital twinning, and whether to incorporate these tools into the effort. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) Block IB effort assess the practicality, benefits, and affordability of implementing digital engineering, including digital twinning, and whether to incorporate these tools into the effort. (Recommendation 6)
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Weapon Systems Annual Assessment: DOD Is Not Yet Well-Positioned to Field Systems with Speed [Reissued with revisions on Jul. 18, 2024]
GAO-24-106831
Jul 18, 2024
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3 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the USD(A&S) to issue policy calling for MTA program acquisition strategies to include how the program plans to implement leading practices for product development to deliver fieldable capability with speed, within 5 years. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the USD(A&S) fully defines goals for DOD's software cadre, to include long-term outcomes and near-term measurable results with time frames. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the USD(A&S) identifies strategies and resources needed to achieve DOD's goals for its software cadre, including assessing the internal and external factors that could affect achievement of DOD's goals for its software cadre and how to mitigate them. (Recommendation 3)
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Army Corps of Engineers: Additional Steps Needed to Implement Acceleration Reforms
GAO-24-107072
Jul 17, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Corps of Engineers The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works should ensure that the Chief of Engineers and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepare and submit the annual lists of feasibility studies that do not have adequate funding to make substantial progress toward the completion of studies to the Office of Management and Budget, or, if it is not feasible, seek repeal of the statutory requirement to do so. (Recommendation 1)
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Corps of Engineers The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works should ensure that the Chief of Engineers and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provide the Corps' cost estimate for developing and maintaining the electronic database to Congress. (Recommendation 2)
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Corps of Engineers The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works should ensure that the Chief of Engineers and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers solicit requests from other federal agencies and project sponsors for new categorical exclusions. (Recommendation 3)
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Corps of Engineers The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works should ensure that the Chief of Engineers and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers establish a performance measurement program that includes clearly defined short- and long-term performance goals to monitor and evaluate progress in improving and expediting the planning and environmental review process. (Recommendation 4)
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Army Corps of Engineers: Rental Rates for Concession Operations Need Biennial Review
GAO-24-107208
Jul 17, 2024
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Corps of Engineers The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works should ensure that the Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers establish a process to review the Corps' system of graduated rental rates for concession operation leases, update it as needed at least every 2 years, and document the review.
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