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Coast Guard: Better Feedback Collection and Monitoring Could Improve Support for Duty Station Rotations
GAO-25-107238
Nov 18, 2024
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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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Federal Research Centers: DHS Actions Could Reduce the Potential for Unnecessary Overlap among Its R&D Projects
GAO-25-106394
Oct 30, 2024
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Department of Homeland Security The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology should update the list of R&D activities on at least a quarterly basis, as statutorily required, and disseminate the updated list to relevant DHS entities, including DHS components. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Homeland Security The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology should amend policies and procedures to require that S&T review proposed FFRDC projects for unnecessary overlap with R&D activities funded and developed by DHS components that have their own R&D appropriations. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Homeland Security The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology should require S&T to document its additional overlap reviews of R&D activities funded and developed by DHS components that have their own R&D appropriations. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Homeland Security The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology should ensure that FFRDC PMO conducts and documents an analysis of the risk of nonresponse bias based on the response rate of the initial outreach efforts for each fiscal year's set of user feedback surveys. Should the analysis indicate a risk of nonresponse bias which would influence FFRDC PMO's understanding of FFRDC performance, FFRDC PMO should take additional steps to increase their response rate. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Homeland Security The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology should ensure FFRDC PMO documents, in all Annual Assessments and 5-Year Comprehensive Reviews, the response rate, risk of bias, and steps taken to increase the user feedback survey response rate. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Homeland Security The DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology should amend its policies and procedures to require FFRDC PMO to include a comprehensive analysis of open-ended responses to FFRDC user surveys in the Annual Assessments to gain a more complete understanding of user feedback when assessing FFRDC performance. (Recommendation 6)
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Coast Guard: Additional Actions Needed to Guide Training and Assessment Efforts
GAO-25-107025
Oct 30, 2024
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3 Open Recommendations
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United States Coast Guard The Commandant of the Coast Guard should ensure that the Commander of FORCECOM documents and implements an approach for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of training center data on triennial course review requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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United States Coast Guard The Commandant of the Coast Guard should ensure that the Commander of FORCECOM assesses whether FORCECOM's Level 3 evaluation guidelines are reasonable for training centers and considers whether new guidelines could provide more useful data. (Recommendation 2)
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United States Coast Guard The Commandant of the Coast Guard should ensure that the Commander of FORCECOM develops a written project plan for developing and implementing the assessment program's dashboard, including key items such as project goals, work activities, timeline for completion, and interim milestones. (Recommendation 3)
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Preventing a Dirty Bomb: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Has Not Taken Steps to Address Certain Radiological Security Risks
GAO-24-107014
Oct 03, 2024
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2 Open Recommendations
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Congress Congress should consider directing NRC to incorporate socioeconomic consequences into NRC's decision-making for setting security measures for radioactive materials, and direct NRC to update its regulations accordingly. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Congress Congress should consider directing NRC to immediately require that all category 3 licenses be added to the Web-based Licensing System, all category 3 sources be included and tracked in the National Source Tracking System, and that all vendors verify the legitimacy of would-be purchasers' category 3 licenses with the regulator. (Matter for Consideration 2)
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