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Naval Shipyards: Complete Information Needed for Decision-Making on Multibillion-Dollar, 50-Year Infrastructure Program
GAO-26-107830
Sep 25, 2026
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4 Open Recommendations
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Congress Congress should consider requiring the Navy to annually report consolidated, standardized information on the status of SIOP costs and progress for the duration of the program. The status reports to Congress should include (1) detailed and summary information for the program overall, such as total expenditures to date; original and current program schedule, performance, and cost estimates; associated risk analysis; and other elements reported by MDAPs, as applicable to SIOP and of interest to Congress; and (2) similar detailed and summary information for individual SIOP projects, which could be identified based on cost thresholds or other applicable thresholds, such as categories of military construction projects. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the ASN (RD&A) includes in the SIOP oversight framework specific steps, such as part of its Gate 6 reviews, to periodically reevaluate SIOP's validated CDD program requirements, objectives, and performance parameters, following its Gate 5/Milestone B-C approval and during program implementation, to confirm continued relevance or identify emerging program gaps or changes. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the ASN (RD&A) includes in the SIOP oversight framework specific steps and timing for conducting annual Gate 6 sufficiency reviews of SIOP's mission readiness, affordability, and sustainability, as appropriate based on Navy MDAP guidance. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that PMO 555, in coordination with NAVFAC and other pertinent stakeholders, identifies and documents key SIOP project management organizations and their SIOP roles, responsibilities, and collaborative relationships in the SIOP Concept of Operations. (Recommendation 3)
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Military Installations: Remote and Isolated Locations Face Challenges Delivering Critical Support Services
GAO-26-108231
Sep 24, 2026
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness updates DOD's definition of remote and isolated installations in existing guidance to clarify how to measure the adequacy of critical support services when designating installations as remote and isolated. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, as part of implementing our prior recommendation on collecting and sharing lessons learned from the department's implementation of civilian workforce reduction efforts in 2025, includes a specific examination of the impact of civilian workforce reductions at remote and isolated installations. (Recommendation 2)
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Defense Management: DOD Needs to Review Its Defense Agencies and Field Activities for Efficiency and Effectiveness
GAO-26-107781
Sep 03, 2026
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Director of Administration and Management develops formalized guidance for DAFA reviews in a DOD instruction or similar formalized guidance. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Director of Administration and Management includes clearly defined measures for efficiency and effectiveness for DAFA reviews in formalized guidance. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for P&R assesses DHRA's Defense Civilian Emerging Leader Program against programs operated by DLA and WHS to determine the effectiveness of having multiple leader development programs and take steps to mitigate any inefficient overlap. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that P&R, through DHRA's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office and in coordination with the military services, assesses the services' curriculum development efforts for the sexual assault prevention and response training for potential efficiencies and takes steps to mitigate any inefficient overlap, as part of its ongoing review of mandatory training requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Costly Attack Submarine Maintenance Challenges
GAO-26-109256
Aug 27, 2026
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Chief of Naval Operations directs the Naval Sea Systems Command to fully evaluate alternative options for decommissioning attack submarines more efficiently to optimize shipyard capacity for the operational fleet. Such options may include, but are not limited to, defueling outside of dry docks and reducing crewing for attack submarines awaiting decommissioning. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Chief of Naval Operations directs the Naval Sea Systems Command to use the evaluation above to develop and implement a plan for attack submarine inactivations that reduces inactive idle time for crews and submarines. This plan should include steps to achieve objectives and timeframes for monitoring and mitigating risk for inactive idle time reduction. (Recommendation 2)
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