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Special Operations Forces: Additional Oversight Could Help Mitigate High-Risk Training Accidents

GAO-25-106321
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6 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, performs analyses of negative safety trends when designating SOF high-risk training areas in future updates to its training directive. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command establishes milestones for the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command establishes milestones for the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, reevaluates the training assessment program to determine the number of assessments, observations, and inspections of SOF service component commands and the related resources that are needed to achieve the goals of the program. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command establishes milestones for the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, establishes milestones for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to complete updates to its high-risk training policy that include SOCOM's high-risk training oversight requirements. (Recommendation 3)
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Coast Guard: Better Feedback Collection and Monitoring Could Improve Support for Duty Station Rotations

GAO-25-107238
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the TRANSCOM Commander analyzes the potential for non-response bias in the Customer Satisfaction Survey and, as necessary, incorporate accepted statistical methods to adjust for identified sources of bias into operating procedures. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Commandant of the Coast Guard should establish a process to routinely collect and analyze service-wide feedback on duty station rotations. (Recommendation 2)
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IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the department CIO to work with OMB to ensure that annual reviews of their IT portfolio are conducted in conjunction with the Federal CIO and the Chief Operating Officer or Deputy Secretary (or equivalent), as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 13)
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Military Housing: DOD Should Address Critical Supply and Affordability Challenges for Service Members

GAO-25-106208
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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and the military services, develops a plan for how the department can respond to and address the financial and quality-of-life effects in critical housing areas once those areas are identified, such as through feasible solutions to increase housing supply or through additional strategies such as alternative compensation. (Recommendation 5)
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DOD concurred with this recommendation. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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