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Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

GAO-24-106524
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commandant of the Marine Corps to develop metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commandant of the Marine Corps to develop and implement a Marine Corps Child and Youth Program strategic workforce plan to document its human capital goals and strategies. This plan should include strategies and activities to address staffing needs as well as elements to ensure the Marine Corps is able to monitor and evaluate progress toward its goals. (Recommendation 1)
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Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

GAO-24-106524
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commandant of the Marine Corps to conduct a needs assessment of its child care workforce to inform future workforce planning. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 4)
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Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries

GAO-24-105503
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that shipbuilding programs complete functional design for new ships before awarding detail design and construction contracts. (Recommendation 2)
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Navy Shipbuilding: Increased Use of Leading Design Practices Could Improve Timeliness of Deliveries

GAO-24-105503
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should establish—and regularly update, as needed— guidance outlining the information and evaluation methodology used to certify the completion of basic and functional design prior to a ship's construction start for any major shipbuilding program, to include the Navy's explanation of what design activities and outputs must be accomplished to meet the statutory requirement for completion of a ship's basic and functional design. (Recommendation 7)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should—in coordination with Navy shipbuilders—evaluate opportunities to accelerate the receipt of reliable vendor-furnished information to support earlier design maturity for new ships. (Recommendation 5)
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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 Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps formally evaluates Marine Corps policies and procedures governing the use of litigators to help ensure their efficient and effective use. (Recommendation 12)
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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 Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy Judge Advocate General collects information on retention rates of participants in the Navy's military justice career path and considers including such information in the Navy's annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 23)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, in conjunction with the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, collects and maintains staffing data on actual Marine Corps staff assigned to litigation positions compared to authorized positions and considers including such information in the Marine Corps' annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce report to Congress. (Recommendation 32)
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