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Military Justice: Increased Oversight, Data Collection, and Analysis Could Aid Assessment of Racial Disparities

GAO-24-106386
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should develop and implement a process to centrally collect and maintain accessible data—including race and ethnicity data—on all investigations including commander-directed investigations, appeals, and service members selected to serve on court-martial panels to facilitate centralized visibility over, and, as necessary, the assessment and reporting of these data. (Recommendation 3)
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Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

GAO-24-106524
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 5)
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Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

GAO-24-106524
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by conducting a needs assessment of its child care workforce to inform future workforce planning. (Recommendation 6)
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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

GAO-24-106165
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General formally evaluates Air Force policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 13)
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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

GAO-24-106165
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General collects and maintains staffing data on actual staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 33)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should issue guidance to require the inclusion of judge advocates with relevant professional experience, such as a participant in the Air Force's military justice career path, on judge advocate promotion boards. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Air Force's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 25)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance requiring a periodic evaluation of professional experience standards for Air Force military justice litigation positions. (Recommendation 17)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure the Air Force Judge Advocate General issues guidance that addresses the risk that the perishability of litigation skills poses to the use of skill levels for Air Force litigators, such as specifying the maximum time a recipient may serve in a non-litigation role before the skill level must be reviewed. (Recommendation 8)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Commander, Air Force Personnel Center, in conjunction with the Air Force Judge Advocate General, develops a process to systematically collect information on the reasons Air Force military justice litigators separate from service, such as by adapting its existing service-wide exit survey processes to include a mechanism for identifying litigators, and considers including such information in the Air Force's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 29)
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