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Federal Telework: Social Security Administration Needs a Plan to Maintain a Workforce with the Skills Needed to Provide Timely Service
GAO-26-107645
Jan 23, 2026
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2 Open Recommendations
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Social Security Administration The Commissioner of SSA should update SSA's human capital plan to ensure the agency can identify and retain mission-critical staff, given recent changes in its telework posture and efforts to reshape the organization. (Recommendation 1)
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Social Security Administration The Commissioner of SSA should evaluate SSA's telework program so that the agency can identify problems or issues with the program and make appropriate adjustments, and assess the effects of telework on agency performance. (Recommendation 2)
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Civilian Telework And Remote Work: DOD Should Evaluate Programs in Relation to Department Goals
GAO-26-107601
Jan 08, 2026
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness requires DOD components to develop formal processes to ensure data on civilian employee eligibility for telework and remote work are accurate, timely, and complete. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in revising DOD's telework and remote work guidance, establishes clear and specific requirements for evaluating the effects of telework and remote work programs in relation to the department's goals. (Recommendation 2)
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Navy Ship Maintenance: Fire Prevention Improvements Hinge on Stronger Contractor Oversight
GAO-26-107716
Dec 17, 2025
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should develop a mechanism to maximize available resources across organizations responsible for fire safety oversight to better ensure contractor fire safety oversight and alleviate the burden on sailors. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Learning to Action Board takes contractor compliance with fire safety standards into account, such as reviewing corrective action requests, when developing actions to address any future major fires during ship maintenance periods. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should task the Learning to Action Board to assess how to improve the corrective action request process to increase contractor accountability, including whether monetary penalties for serious fire safety issues may improve contractor compliance with fire safety standards. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command updates the Navy's Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan guidance to include safety performance standards. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should reassess the progress payment retention rate for surface ship maintenance contracts based on an assessment of the government's risk and health of the ship repair industrial base. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should reassess the ship repair limitation of liability clause, as outlined in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, including whether adjustments to the contractor's liability ceiling, such as to reflect inflation, are warranted and make a recommendation to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to update the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement clause. (Recommendation 6)
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Bureau of Prisons: Strategic Approach Needed to Prevent and Address Employee Misconduct
GAO-25-107339
Sep 29, 2025
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8 Open Recommendations
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should revise BOP's program statement on investigative policy to correctly cite Kalkines v. United States as the applicable legal decision for the administrative warning that OIA conveys before conducting compelled interviews. (Recommendation 1)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should develop and implement a communication strategy that fully informs incarcerated individuals about employee misconduct offenses that affect their health and safety. (Recommendation 2)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should (a) develop a routine and systematic approach for sharing employee feedback specific to the Standards of Employee Conduct training with regional and central offices and (b) use this feedback to help improve its design, delivery, and overall effectiveness. (Recommendation 3)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should develop and implement an approach to routinely and fully assess employee misconduct data, identify trends across more than 2 years and within and across facilities, and identify any challenge areas to help focus efforts to prevent and address employee misconduct. (Recommendation 4)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP, after implementing routine assessments of employee misconduct data, should implement targeted approaches to address the identified trends and challenge areas in employee misconduct. (Recommendation 5)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should document and implement a comprehensive plan that establishes responsibilities, measurable goals, and milestones for investigating and disciplining employee misconduct cases to ensure accountability for meeting those goals. (Recommendation 6)
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