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Federal Protective Service: Actions Needed to Address Critical Guard Oversight and Information System Problems
GAO-25-108085
Mar 11, 2025
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4 Open Recommendations
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Federal Protective Service The Director of FPS should develop standardized procedures and guidance to improve the quality and consistency of its covert testing data, which could include data quality checks, guidance for staff to improve the consistency and comparability of reporting, and a process for identifying and documenting a specific cause for each test failure. (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.
Federal Protective Service The Director of FPS should develop guidance to ensure that, when contract guards fail covert tests, security guard contractors consistently provide training or other corrective actions that address the identified cause for the failed covert test. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Federal Protective Service The Director of FPS should develop and implement a process to regularly analyze covert testing information and use that analysis to inform actions that will improve contract guards' detection capabilities. (Recommendation 3)
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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 Homeland Security The DHS Chief Information Officer should determine whether to terminate and replace PTS, or make corrective actions to the existing system, including a schedule for providing tenants with timely communication of guard shortages. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

DOD Real Property: Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Underutilized and Excess Facilities [Reissued with revisions on Mar. 11, 2025]
GAO-25-106132
Mar 11, 2025
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5 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 military services, holds DOD's components and personnel accountable for implementing utilization rate guidance and developing actions to enforce that guidance consistently and accurately for all facilities across the military services. (Recommendation 1)
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The department concurred with the recommendation. We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2025).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretary of the Army, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, issues detailed guidance on how to assess and manage risks associated with real property, including determining how to weigh competing priorities relating to sustainment, use, and disposal of property. (Recommendation 2)
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The department concurred with the recommendation. We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2025).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, issues detailed guidance to the Navy on how to assess and manage risks associated with real property, including determining how to weigh competing priorities relating to sustainment, use, and disposal of property. (Recommendation 3)
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The department partially concurred with the recommendation. DOD suggested combining this recommendation with recommendation 4 under the Secretary of the Navy because the recommended action more appropriately aligns with the authority and responsibility of the Navy and Marine Corps as a single military department. GAO amended the recommendations and clarified the responsible designee but kept them as separate recommendations in keeping with GAO's practice of presenting a separate recommendation to each entity. We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2025).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, issues detailed guidance to the Marine Corps on how to assess and manage risks associated with real property, including determining how to weigh competing priorities relating to sustainment, use, and disposal of property. (Recommendation 4)
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The department partially concurred with the recommendation. DOD suggested combining this recommendation with recommendation 3 under the Secretary of the Navy because the recommended action more appropriately aligns with the authority and responsibility of the Navy and Marine Corps as a single military department. GAO amended the recommendations and clarified the responsible designee but kept them as separate recommendations in keeping with GAO's practice of presenting a separate recommendation to each entity. We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2025).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretary of the Air Force, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, issues detailed guidance on how to assess and manage risks associated with real property, including determining how to weigh competing priorities relating to sustainment, use, and disposal of property. (Recommendation 5)
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The department concurred with the recommendation. We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2025).

High-Risk Series: Heightened Attention Could Save Billions More and Improve Government Efficiency and Effectiveness
GAO-25-107743
Feb 25, 2025
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1 Open Recommendations
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Congress Congress should consider requiring that interagency groups formed to address high-risk and other key challenges develop and implement a collaboration plan incorporating GAO's leading interagency collaboration practices. (Matter for Congressional Consideration 1)
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As of March 10, 2025, congressional committees have not taken action on this recommendation. GAO will continue to track the status of this recommendation by monitoring high-risk areas.

U.S. Postal Service: Reviews of Proposed Facility Consolidation Costs Met Some Best Practices but Could More Robustly Analyze Risks
GAO-25-107630
Feb 07, 2025
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4 Open Recommendations
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United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should direct the Chief Processing and Distribution Officer to include all cost-influencing ground rules and assumptions, along with their sources and supporting historical data, for MPFR cost estimates in relevant policies and guidance. (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.
United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should direct the Chief Processing and Distribution Officer to include all estimating calculations and methodologies used for MPFR cost estimates in relevant policies and guidance. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should direct the Chief Processing and Distribution Officer to include a sensitivity analysis in MPFR cost estimates in relevant policies and guidance. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
United States Postal Service The Postmaster General should direct the Chief Processing and Distribution Officer to include a risk and uncertainty analysis in MPFR cost estimates in relevant policies and guidance. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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