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Navy Shipbuilding: Improving Warfighter Engagement and Tools for Operational Testing Could Increase Timeliness and Usefulness

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Consumer Protection: Expeditious Actions Needed to Implement a Government-wide Strategy and Related Efforts to Counter Scams

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Combating Fraud: Approaches to Evaluate Effectiveness and Demonstrate Integrity

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Coast Guard: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Reform Efforts to Address Sexual Misconduct

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Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Ensure Complete and Timely Reports to Congress Regarding Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment

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Tribal Programs: Information on Freedmen Descendants of the Five Tribes

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