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As of June 3, 2024, there are 5154 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 422 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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Veterans Health Care: Opportunities Exist to Improve Assessment of Network Adequacy for Mental Health

GAO-24-106410
Alyssa M. Hundrup
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Veterans Affairs The Undersecretary for Health should assess the risks associated with VA's methodology for calculating specialty care network adequacy and revise its approach accordingly. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Undersecretary for Health should ensure that VA facility staff systematically capture the reasons for community care appointment scheduling challenges and use this information to help address those challenges. (Recommendation 2)
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DOD Financial Management: Additional Steps Needed to Guide Future Systems Transitions

GAO-24-106313
Asif A. Khan, Vijay A. D'Souza
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14 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI standard operating procedures to include all costs when developing future DAI cost estimates. This cost estimate should document all life-cycle costs, including costs associated with bringing new user components into the DAI system. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the Marine Corps, and other DOD components, as appropriate, include all remaining effort in the schedule for the remaining tasks associated with the Marine Corps' full transition to DAI, which appropriately accounts for program complexity. This schedule should document all remaining effort needed to complete the Marine Corps' stabilization phase and transition to normal operations in DAI if the Marine Corps does not meet its planned completion date. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, develop schedule estimates for future user components migrating to DAI that include all new user components' efforts, activities, and complex financial transactions, and that identify DAI's capability to process those transactions. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, establish performance metrics for new user components that address all elements described by the leading practices discussed in this report. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the Marine Corps, and other DOD components, as appropriate, establish comprehensive performance metrics for the Marine Corps' transition to DAI that address all elements described by the leading practices discussed in this report. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to include plans for post-go-live data-cleansing and quality activities. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to include a requirement to, as feasible, trace data to an auditable source before migration to better inform data migration and conversion efforts. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to include a backup plan, or other contingency plan, in case the DAI failed to operate as expected, as part of the cutover plan. (Recommendation 8)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to require realistic data conversion goals for performance metrics in their conversion plans. (Recommendation 9)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to require components to compare and reconcile DAI output reports with legacy output reports. (Recommendation 10)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI program standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to require the completion and documentation of a change readiness assessment. Such an assessment should include focus groups, surveys of change readiness, and interviews with leadership. (Recommendation 11)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI program standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to require that they complete and document a stakeholder readiness assessment. Such an assessment should include identifying and assessing key stakeholder groups by common characteristics, communication needs and preferences, and learning styles. (Recommendation 12)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the DAI program, and other DOD components, as appropriate, revise the DAI program standard operating procedures for new user components migrating to DAI to require that future user components ensure that stakeholder concerns, including those related to business process reengineering, are fully addressed. (Recommendation 13)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the USD(C)/CFO, the Marine Corps, and other DOD components, as appropriate, engage all DAI stakeholders; focus on identifying and addressing all barriers to change, including those barriers unrelated to processing financial transactions; and log communications with stakeholders. (Recommendation 14)
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Drug Control: DEA Should Improve Its Religious Exemptions Petition Process for Psilocybin (Mushrooms) and Other Controlled Substances

GAO-24-106630
Triana McNeil
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Drug Enforcement Administration The DEA Administrator should more clearly communicate the types of information that Religious Freedom Restoration Act petitioners should provide to allow DEA to evaluate petitions for religious sincerity. (Recommendation 1)
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Drug Enforcement Administration The DEA Administrator should more clearly communicate the standards and relevant factors to Religious Freedom Restoration Act petitioners in making a determination related to religious sincerity. (Recommendation 2)
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Drug Enforcement Administration The DEA Administrator should establish timeframes for DEA to make determinations on completed religious exemption petitions to provide Religious Freedom Restoration Act petitioners with DEA's final determinations. (Recommendation 3)
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Drug Enforcement Administration The DEA Administrator should provide Religious Freedom Restoration Act petitioners with information for petitioners to be able to receive updates on the agency's progress related to exemption reviews. (Recommendation 4)
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