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December 16, 2009 

Congressional Committees 

Subject: Status of GAO Recommendations to the Department of Defense (Fiscal Years 

2001-2008)

Section 502 of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 20101

 required us to 

report to the appropriate congressional committees by December 31, 2009, regarding the 

Department of Defense’s (DOD) progress in implementing GAO’s audit recommendations. 

From fiscal years 2001 through 2008, we issued 743 reports to DOD or its components that 

included 3,099 recommendations.2

 By law, agencies, including DOD, are required to submit 

written statements to Congress explaining actions taken in response to recommendations we 

have made.3

 We follow up on the implementation status of each recommendation at least 

annually after report issuance to determine whether DOD has instituted sufficient corrective 

actions. This report, which responds to this mandate, contains the results of our analysis on 

the implementation status of the 3,099 recommendations. 

Scope and Methodology 

To conduct our work, we analyzed information on the implementation status of 

recommendations made to DOD from our reports issued during fiscal years 2001 through 

2008 at the request of the committee offices. The implementation status for each 

recommendation falls into one of three categories: recommendations that remain open, 

recommendations that are closed and implemented, and recommendations that are closed 

but not implemented. The results reflect information from our Engagement Results database 

as of September 30, 2009. As noted in our Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal 

Year 2009,4

 our performance reporting is reliable—transactions and other data that support 

reported performance measures are properly recorded, processed, and summarized to permit 

the preparation of performance information consistent with the criteria set forth in the 

Government Performance and Results Act of 19935

 and related Office of Management and 

Budget guidance. We conducted our work from September to December 2009 in accordance 

with all sections of GAO’s Quality Assurance Framework that are relevant to our objectives. 

The framework requires that we plan and perform the engagement to obtain sufficient and 

appropriate evidence to meet our stated objectives and to discuss any limitations in our 

work. We believe that the information and data obtained, and the analysis conducted, 

provide a reasonable basis for any findings and conclusions in this product. 

 

1

S. Con. Res. 13, § 502 (7) (2009). 

2

This number does not include classified GAO reports issued during this time frame. It also does not 

include GAO reports issued with no recommendations. 

3

31 U.S.C. 720. 

4

GAO, United States Government Accountability Office: Performance and Accountability Report, 

Fiscal Year 2009, GAO-10-234SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 13, 2009). 5

Pub. L. No. 103-62 (1993). 
Background 

For GAO products that contain recommendations, we update the status of these 

recommendations at least annually after report issuance and usually by the end of the fiscal 

year. To accomplish this, our staff may interview agency officials, obtain agency documents, 

access agency databases, or obtain information from an agency's inspector general. 

Recommendations that are reported as implemented are reviewed by a senior executive and 

our Office of Quality and Continuous Improvement. It is important for us to keep this 

recommendation information updated since Congress, federal agencies, and the public have 

online access to our report, Status of Open Recommendations, which is based on information 

from our Recommendations Follow-Up application.6

 Congress uses the information to 

prepare for hearings and budget deliberations, and agencies use it to track the status of 

recommendations targeted to their agency. This database can be searched by congressional 

requester, by subject matter, or in various other ways such as target agency or product title. 

We also use this information to measure the implementation rate of our recommendations. 

There are three options for recording the implementation status of a recommendation: open, 

closed-implemented, and closed–not implemented. A recommendation will stay open when 

action has not been taken but may be taken in the future, action is in the planning stage, or 

action has been taken on only part of the recommendation. A recommendation will be listed 

as closed-implemented when the action is fully implemented or action has been taken that 

essentially meets the recommendation’s intent (i.e., the action meets the spirit—rather than 

the letter—of the recommendation) or all parts of the recommendation have been 

implemented. A recommendation will be listed as closed–not implemented when either DOD 

has indicated that it has no intention of implementing the recommendation or circumstances 

have changed and the recommendation is no longer valid. 

GAO Recommendations to DOD and Their Implementation Status 

During fiscal years 2001 through 2008, we issued 743 reports to DOD that included a total of 

3,099 recommendations. As of September 30, 2009, 841 or 27 percent of these 

recommendations are reported as open, 1,878 or 61 percent are closed-implemented, and 380 

or 12 percent are closed–not implemented. Consistent with past experience that shows it 

takes agencies some time to implement recommendations, we found most recommendations 

from fiscal year 2001 have been implemented while most recommendations from fiscal year 

2008 remain open. For example, of the 292 recommendations made to DOD in fiscal year 

2001, 234 recommendations or 80 percent have been implemented while 12, or 4 percent, 

remain open. The remaining 46 recommendations or 16 percent are closed but not 

implemented. Conversely, for the 381 recommendations we made to DOD in fiscal year 2008, 

18 recommendations or 5 percent have been implemented while 352 recommendations or 92 

percent are open. The remaining 11 recommendation or 3 percent are closed but not 

implemented. Enclosure I lists each report issued from fiscal year 2001 through fiscal year 

2008 that included recommendations for DOD or its components and the implementation 

status of those recommendations. 

Table 1 summarizes the number of the recommendations made to DOD in fiscal year 2001 

through fiscal year 2008 and their implementation status by number and percentage. 

 

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Table 1: Status of GAO Recommendations to DOD by Number and Percentage Open, ClosedImplemented, and Closed–Not Implemented, Fiscal Year 2001 through Fiscal Year 2008 

Recommendations 

open 

Recommendations 

closed-implemented 

Recommendations 

closed–not implemented

Fiscal 

year 

Number of GAO 

recommendations Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage 

2001 292 12 4 234 80 46 16 

2002 384 12 3 326 85 46 12 

2003 500 9 2 409 82 82 16 

2004 478 28 6 391 82 59 12 

2005 358 20 6 254 71 84 23 

2006 393 196 50 169 43 28 7 

2007 313 212 68 77 25 24 8 

2008 381 352 92 18 5 11 3 

Total 3,099 841 27 1,878 61 380 12 

Source: GAO. 

Note: Data are from analysis of Engagement Results database on recommendations to DOD. 

Numbers may not add due to rounding. 

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We are sending copies of this report to appropriate congressional committees. In addition, 

this report will be available at no charge on the GAO Web site at http://www.gao.gov. 

If you or your staff have any questions about this report, please contact me at 

(202) 512-8246 or edwardsj@gao.gov. Contact points for our Offices of Congressional 

Relations and Public Affairs may be found on the last page of this report. Key contributors to 

this report are listed in enclosure II. 

Jack E. Edwards 

Director, Defense Capabilities and Management 

Enclosures – 2

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List of Committees

The Honorable Carl Levin 

Chairman 

The Honorable John McCain 

Ranking Member 

Committee on Armed Services 

United States Senate 

The Honorable Kent Conrad 

Chairman 

The Honorable Judd Gregg 

Ranking Member 

Committee on the Budget 

United States Senate 

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye 

Chairman 

The Honorable Thad Cochran 

Ranking Member 

Subcommittee on Defense 

Committee on Appropriations 

United States Senate 

The Honorable Ike Skelton 

Chairman 

The Honorable Howard McKeon 

Ranking Member 

Committee on Armed Services 

House of Representatives 

The Honorable John M. Spratt, Jr. 

Chairman 

The Honorable Paul Ryan 

Ranking Member 

Committee on the Budget 

House of Representatives 

The Honorable John P. Murtha 

Chairman 

The Honorable C. W. Bill Young 

Ranking Member 

Subcommittee on Defense 

Committee on Appropriations 

House of Representatives 

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Enclosure I 

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Implementation Status of GAO Recommendations Made to DOD 

in Fiscal Year 2001 through Fiscal Year 2008 

This enclosure provides eight tables containing our analysis on the implementation status of the 

3,099 GAO recommendations made to the Department of Defense (DOD) in the 743 reports issued 

from fiscal year 2001 through fiscal year 2008. Tables 2 through 9 separately display the 

implementation status for each respective fiscal year. For each year, the results are arranged 

alphabetically by report title and include the product number and status of the report’s 

recommendations. At the bottom of each table is a fiscal year summary total. The bottom of table 9 

additionally shows grand totals for recommendations made to DOD and the implementation status 

as open, closed-implemented, and closed–not implemented. 

Table 2: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2001 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title 

Open Closedimplemented Closed–not 

implemented 

GAO-01-967 Army Management: Need to Reassess Risk and 

Resources for Inspecting Ceremonial Rifles 

 2 

GAO-01-436 Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton 

Truck Driver Training and Supervision 

 6 2 

GAO-01-288 Best Practices: Better Matching of Needs and 

Resources Will Lead to Better Weapon System 

Outcomes 

 3 

GAO-01-510 Best Practices: DOD Teaming Practices Not 

Achieving Potential Results 

 3 7 

GAO-01-697 Canceled DOD Appropriations: $615 Million of 

Illegal or Otherwise Improper Adjustments 

 7 

GAO-01-667 Chemical and Biological Defense: Improved Risk 

Assessment and Inventory Management Are 

Needed 

 4 

GAO-01-27 Chemical and Biological Defense: Units Better 

Equipped, but Training and Readiness Reporting 

Problems Remain 

 2 1 

GAO-01-850 Chemical Weapons: FEMA and Army Must Be 

Proactive in Preparing States for Emergencies 

 1 

GAO-01-632 Combat Identification Systems: Strengthened 

Management Efforts Needed to Ensure Required 

Capabilities 

 3 

GAO-01-463 Combating Terrorism: Accountability Over Medical 

Supplies Needs Further Improvement 

 2 

GAO-01-909 Combating Terrorism: Actions Needed to Improve 

DOD Antiterrorism Program Implementation and 

Management 

 7 

GAO-01-822 Combating Terrorism: Selected Challenges and 

Related Recommendations 

 2 

GAO-01-459 Computer-Based Patient Records: Better Planning 

and Oversight by VA, DOD, and IHS Would 

Enhance Health Data Sharing 

 3 

GAO-01-86R Concerns Raised About Use of Unreconciled 

Activity Codes to Requisition New and Excess 

Government Property 

1 1 

GAO-01-767 Contract Management: Benefits of the DOD 

Mentor-Protégé Program Are Not Conclusive 

 1 

GAO-01-801 Contract Management: DOD’s Profit Policy 

Provision to Stimulate Innovation Needs 

Clarification 

 3 

GAO-01-309 Contract Management: Excess Payments and 

Underpayments Continue to Be a Problem at DOD 

 2 
Enclosure I 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title 

Open Closedimplemented Closed–not 

implemented 

GAO-01-295 Contract Management: No DOD Proposal to 

Improve Contract Service Costs Reporting 

 3 

GAO-01-694 Cooperative Threat Reduction: DOD Has Adequate 

Oversight of Assistance, but Procedural Limitations 

Remain 

 2 

GAO-01-686 Debt Collection: Defense Finance and Accounting 

Service Needs to Improve Collection Efforts 

 6 

GAO-01-450 Defense Acquisition: Comanche Program 

Objectives Need to Be Revised to More Achievable 

Levels 

 1 

GAO-01-607 Defense Acquisitions: Higher Level DOD Review of 

Antiarmor Mission and Munitions Is Needed 

 1 

GAO-01-74 Defense Acquisitions: Need to Confirm 

Requirements for $4.1 Billion Antiarmor Missile 

System 

 2 

GAO-01-22 Defense Acquisitions: Price Trends for Defense 

Logistics Agency’s Weapon System Parts 

 3 

GAO-01-23 Defense Acquisitions: Prices of Navy Aviation 

Spare Parts Have Increased 

 3 

GAO-01-6 Defense Acquisitions: Space-Based Infrared 

System-low at Risk of Missing Initial Deployment 

Date 

 1 2 

GAO-01-902 Defense Budget: Need to Better Inform Congress 

on Funding for Army Division Training 

 3 

GAO-01-513 Defense Health Care: Continued Management 

Focus Key to Settling TRICARE Change Orders 

Quickly 

 1 

GAO-01-473 Defense Infrastructure: Commissary 

Reorganization Should Produce Savings but 

Opportunities May Exist for More 

 3 

GAO-01-437 Defense Infrastructure: Military Services Lack 

Reliable Data on Historic Properties 

 1 

GAO-01-475 Defense Inventory: Approach for Deciding Whether 

to Retain or Dispose of Items Needs Improvement 

 2 

GAO-01-425 Defense Inventory: Army War Reserve Spare Parts 

Requirements Are Uncertain 

 2 3 

GAO-01-30 Defense Inventory: Implementation Plans to 

Enhance Control Over Shipped Items Can Be 

Improved 

4 

GAO-01-472 Defense Inventory: Information on the Use of Spare 

Parts Funding Is Lacking 

 1 

GAO-01-32 Defense Inventory: Most Excess Property in 

Panama Was Disposed of Properly, but Some 

Control Weaknesses Existed 

 1 

GAO-01-923 Defense Inventory: Navy Spare Parts Quality 

Deficiency Reporting Program Needs Improvement 

 1 1 

GAO-01-372 Defense Inventory: Steps the Army Can Take to 

Improve the Management and Oversight of Excess 

Ammunition 

 3 

GAO-01-618 Defense Logistics: Air Force Lacks Data to Assess 

Contractor Logistics Support Approaches 

 1 

GAO-01-18 Defense Logistics: Unfinished Actions Limit 

Reliability of the Munition Requirements 

Determination Process 

 5 

GAO-01-683 Defense Management: Better Guidance Needed in 

Selecting Operating Methods for Name-Brand, 

Fast-Food Restaurants 

 5 

GAO-01-943 Defense Manufacturing Technology Program: More 

Joint Projects and Tracking of Results Could 

Benefit Program 

 1 1 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title 

Open Closedimplemented Closed–not 

implemented 

GAO-01-795 Defense Spectrum Management: More Analysis 

Needed to Support Spectrum Use Decisions for the 

1755-1850 MHz Band 

 1 2 

GAO-01-559 Defense Working Capital Fund: Improvements 

Needed for Managing the Backlog of Funded Work 

 5 

GAO-01-196R Department of the Air Force: Unauthorized Activity 

Codes Used to Requisition New and Excess DOD 

Property 

1 1 

GAO-01-85R Department of the Army: Unauthorized Activity 

Codes Used to Requisition New DOD Property 

 3 

GAO-01-206R Department of the Navy: Unauthorized Activity 

Codes Used to Requisition New and Excess DOD 

Property 

1 1 

GAO-01-19 Depot Maintenance: Key Financial Issues for 

Consolidations at Pearl Harbor and Elsewhere Are 

Still Unresolved 

 4 

GAO-01-588 DOD and VA Pharmacy: Progress and Remaining 

Challenges in Jointly Buying and Mailing Out Drugs 

 6 

GAO-01-116 DOD Information Technology: Software and 

Systems Process Improvement Programs Vary in 

Use of Best Practices 

 3 

GAO-01-508 DOD Personnel: Improvements Made to Housing 

Allowance Rate-Setting Process 

 1 

GAO-01-465 DOD Personnel: More Consistency Needed in 

Determining Eligibility for Top Secret Security 

Clearances 

 2 2 

GAO-01-682 DOD Systems Modernization: Continued 

Investment in the Standard Procurement System 

Has Not Been Justified 

 5 

GAO-01-26 Drug Control: U.S. Assistance to Colombia Will 

Take Years to Produce Results 

 2 

GAO-01-1026 Elections: Voting Assistance to Military and 

Overseas Citizens Should Be Improved 

 4 1 

GAO-01-843 Electronic Combat: Services Should Consider 

Greater Use of New Test Equipment for Their 

Aircraft 

 1 

GAO-01-28 Electronic Warfare: Comprehensive Strategy 

Needed for Suppressing Enemy Air Defenses 

 1 

GAO-01-448 Electronic Warfare: The Army Can Reduce Its 

Risks in Developing New Radar Countermeasures 

System 

 1 

GAO-01-557 Environmental Contamination: Cleanup Actions at 

Formerly Used Defense Sites 

 1 1 

GAO-01-479 Environmental Liabilities: DOD Training Range 

Cleanup Cost Estimates Are Likely Understated 

 5 

GAO-01-10 Export Controls: System for Controlling Exports of 

High Performance Computing Is Ineffective 

 1 

GAO-01-764 Financial Management: DOD Improvement Plan 

Needs Strategic Focus 

 6 

GAO-01-847 Financial Management: Improvements in Air Force 

Fund Balance With Treasury Reconciliation 

Process 

 4 

GAO-01-37R Financial Management: Improvements Needed in 

the Navy's Reporting of General Fund Inventory 

5 2 

GAO-01-45R Financial Management: Reporting of Army 

Conventional Ammunition as Operating Materials 

and Supplies 

 5 

GAO-01-89 Financial Management: Significant Weaknesses in 

Corps of Engineers’ Computer Controls 

 1 

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Enclosure I 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title 

Open Closedimplemented Closed–not 

implemented 

GAO-01-198 Force Structure: Army Lacks Units Needed for 

Extended Contingency Operations 

 3 

GAO-01-485 Force Structure: Projected Requirements for Some 

Army Forces Not Well Established 

 4 

GAO-01-341 Information Security: Challenges to Improving 

DOD’s Incident Response Capabilities 

 9 

GAO-01-307 Information Security: Progress and Challenges to 

an Effective Defense-wide Information Assurance 

Program 

 13 1 

GAO-01-525 Information Technology: Architecture Needed to 

Guide Modernization of DOD’s Financial 

Operations 

 7 1 

GAO-01-631 Information Technology: DLA Should Strengthen 

Business Systems Modernization Architecture and 

Investment Activities 

 9 

GAO-01-515R Internal Controls: C-17 Payment Procedures Can 

Be Improved 

 1 4 

GAO-01-461 Kosovo Air Operations: Combat Aircraft Basing 

Plans Are Needed in Advance of Future Conflicts 

 4 

GAO-01-239 Land Mine Detection: DOD's Research Program 

Needs a Comprehensive Evaluation Strategy 

 2 

GAO-01-889 Military Housing: DOD Needs to Address LongStanding Requirements Determination Problems  1 

GAO-01-80 Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Achieve 

Greater Results From Air Force Family Need 

Assessments 

 4 

GAO-01-566 Military Readiness: Management Focus Needed on 

Airfields for Overseas Deployments 

 1 3 

GAO-01-840 Military Readiness: Management of Naval Aviation 

Training Munitions Can Be Improved 

 5 1 

GAO-01-853 Military Transformation: Navy Efforts Should Be 

More Integrated and Focused 

 2 

GAO-01-17 National Defense Stockpile: Improved Financial 

Plan Needed to Enhance Decision-making 

 1 

GAO-01-31 Naval Ship Donation: Selection Decision for U.S.S. 

New Jersey Was Objective, but Selection Process 

Can Be Strengthened 

 3 

GAO-01-493 Navy Acquisitions: Improved Littoral War-Fighting 

Capabilities Needed 

 1 

GAO-01-178R Navy Aviation Spare Parts Billing Transaction 

Issues 

 2 

GAO-01-310 Tactical Aircraft: F-22 Development and Testing 

Delays Indicate Need for Limit on Low-Rate 

Production 

 2 

GAO-01-163 Tactical Aircraft: Modernization Plans Will Not 

Reduce Average Age of Aircraft 

 1 

GAO-01-1113R U.S. Army’s Procurements of Battle Effects 

Simulators 

 1 

GAO-01-325 Wetlands Protection: Assessments Needed to 

Determine Effectiveness of In-Lieu-Fee Mitigation 

 1 

Fiscal year 

2001 total 292 12 234 46 

Source: GAO.

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Enclosure I 

Table 3: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2002 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-02-623 Air Force Depot Maintenance: Management 

Improvements Needed for Backlog of Funded 

Contract Maintenance Work 

6 1 

GAO-02-445 Anthrax Vaccine: GAO’s Survey of Guard and 

Reserve Pilots and Aircrew 

 1 

GAO-02-98 Army Readiness: Readiness Improved for Selected 

Divisions, but Manning Imbalances Persist 

 1 

GAO-02-77 Aviation Safety: FAA and DOD Response to Similar 

Safety Concerns 

 1 

GAO-02-701 Best Practices: Capturing Design and 

Manufacturing Knowledge Early Improves 

Acquisition Outcomes 

 14 3 

GAO-02-230 Best Practices: Taking a Strategic Approach Could 

Improve DOD’s Acquisition of Services 

 2 

GAO-02-747 Canceled DOD Appropriations: Improvements 

Made but More Corrective Actions Are Needed 

 6 

GAO-02-38 Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to 

Clarify Expectations in Medical Readiness 

4 2 

GAO-02-890 Chemical Weapons: Lessons Learned Program 

Generally Effective but Could Be Improved and 

Expanded 

 5 

GAO-02-502 Contract Management: DOD Needs Better 

Guidance on Granting Waivers for Certified Cost or 

Pricing Data 

 3 

GAO-02-565 Defense Acquisitions: Navy Needs Plan to Address 

Rising Prices in Aviation Parts 

 2 

GAO-02-201 Defense Acquisitions: Steps to Improve the 

Crusader Program’s Investment Decisions 

1 2 

GAO-02-692 Defense Acquisitions: Testing Needed to Prove 

SURTASS/LFA Effectiveness in Littoral Waters 

 1 

GAO-02-450 Defense Budget: Need to Strengthen Guidance and 

Oversight of Contingency Operation Costs 

8 1 

GAO-02-103 Defense Environmental Issues: Improved Guidance 

Needed for Reporting on Recovered Cleanup Costs 

 1 

GAO-02-73 Defense Health Care: Disability Programs Need 

Improvement and Face Challenges 

2 3 

GAO-02-829 Defense Health Care: Most Reservists Have 

Civilian Health Coverage but More Assistance Is 

Needed When TRICARE Is Used 

 2 

GAO-02-475 Defense Infrastructure: Greater Management 

Emphasis Needed to Increase the Services’ Use of 

Expanded Leasing Authority 

2 1 

GAO-02-617 Defense Inventory: Air Force Needs to Improve 

Control of Shipments to Repair Contractors 

5 5 

GAO-02-75 Defense Inventory: Control Weaknesses Leave 

Restricted and Hazardous Excess Property 

Vulnerable to Improper Use, Loss, and Theft 

1 9 

GAO-02-650 Defense Inventory: Improved Industrial Base 

Assessments for Army War Reserve Spares Could 

Save Money 

 4 

GAO-02-105 Defense Logistics: Actions Needed to Overcome 

Capability Gaps in the Public Depot System 

 3 

GAO-02-582 Defense Logistics: Better Fuel Pricing Practices Will 

Improve Budget Accuracy 

2 

GAO-02-776 Defense Logistics: Improving Customer Feedback 

Program Could Enhance DLA’s Delivery of 

Services 

 11 1 

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Enclosure I 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-02-306 Defense Logistics: Opportunities to Improve the 

Army’s and Navy’s Decision-making Process for 

Weapons Systems Support 

 4 

GAO-02-106 Defense Logistics: Strategic Planning Weaknesses 

Leave Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of 

Future Support Systems at Risk 

 4 

GAO-02-256 Defense Management: Industry Practices Can Help 

Military Exchanges Better Assure That Their Goods 

Are Not Made by Child or Forced Labor 

 6 

GAO-02-351 Defense Management: Proposed Lodging Policy 

May Lead to Improvements, but More Actions Are 

Required 

2 1 1 

GAO-02-542 Defense Plans: Plan to Better Use Air Force 

Squadrons Could Yield Benefits but Faces 

Significant Challenges 

 2 

GAO-02-604 Delaware River Deepening Project: Comprehensive 

Reanalysis Needed 

 4 

GAO-02-95 Depot Maintenance: Management Attention 

Required to Further Improve Workload Allocation 

Data 

 5 

GAO-02-329 Desktop Outsourcing: Positive Results Reported, 

but Analyses Could Be Strengthened 

 6 

GAO-02-635 DOD Contract Management: Overpayments 

Continue and Management and Accounting Issues 

Remain 

 3 

GAO-02-423 Environmental Cleanup: Better Communication 

Needed for Dealing with Formerly Used Defense 

Sites in Guam 

 2 

GAO-02-658 Environmental Contamination: Corps Needs to 

Reassess Its Determinations That Many Former 

Defense Sites Do Not Need Cleanup 

 6 

GAO-02-117 Environmental Liabilities: Cleanup Costs From 

Certain DOD Operations Are Not Being Reported 

 4 

GAO-02-529R Export Control: Army Guidance on Cooperative 

Research and Development Agreement 

Compliance with Export Control Laws and 

Regulations 

 2 

GAO-02-996 Export Controls: Processes for Determining Proper 

Control of Defense-Related Items Needs 

Improvement 

1 1 

GAO-02-749 Financial Management: Coordinated Approach 

Needed to Address the Government’s Improper 

Payments Problems 

 1 

GAO-02-846 Force Structure: Review of B-1B Process Identifies 

Opportunity to Improve Future Analysis 

 1 

GAO-02-541 Force Structure: Air Force Needs a Periodic Total 

Force Assessment 

 1 

GAO-02-1027 Foreign Assistance: Reporting of Defense Articles 

and Services Provided through Drawdowns Needs 

to Be Improved 

 1 

GAO-02-375 Foreign Languages: Human Capital Approach 

Needed to Correct Staffing and Proficiency 

Shortfalls 

 1 

GAO-02-50 

Information Technology: Defense Information 

Systems Agency Can Improve Investment Planning 

and Management Controls 

 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-02-314 Information Technology: DLA Needs to Strengthen 

Its Investment Management Capability 

 12 

GAO-02-681 Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve 

Process for Ensuring Interoperability of 

Telecommunications Switches 

 6 

GAO-02-345 Information Technology: Greater Use of Best 

Practices Can Reduce Risks in Acquiring Defense 

Health Care System 

 5 

GAO-02-9 Information Technology: Inconsistent Software 

Acquisition Processes at the Defense Logistics 

Agency Increase Project Risks 

 3 

GAO-02-39 Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Mature Critical 

Technologies Needed to Reduce Risks 

 2 

GAO-02-86 Military Aircraft: Services Need Strategies to 

Reduce Cannibalizations 

3 

GAO-02-433 Military Base Closures: Progress in Completing 

Actions from Prior Realignments and Closures 

2 1 

GAO-02-624 Military Housing: Management Improvements 

Needed As the Pace of Privatization Quickens 

 6 

GAO-02-935 Military Personnel: Active Duty Benefits Reflect 

Changing Demographics, but Opportunities Exist to 

Improve 

 2 

GAO-02-738 Military Space Operations: Planning, Funding, and 

Acquisition Challenges Facing Efforts to Strengthen 

Space Control 

 6 

GAO-02-614 Military Training: DOD Lacks a Comprehensive 

Plan to Manage Encroachment on Training Ranges 

 4 

GAO-02-525 Military Training: Limitations Exist Overseas but Are 

Not Reflected in Readiness Reporting 

 4 

GAO-02-856 Military Transformation: Actions Needed to Better 

Manage DOD’s Joint Experimentation Program 

 4 

GAO-02-442 Military Transformation: Army Actions Needed to 

Enhance Formation of Future Interim Brigade 

Combat Teams 

7 1 

GAO-02-631 Missile Defense: Knowledge-Based Decision 

Making Needed to Reduce Risks in Developing 

Airborne Laser 

 1 

GAO-02-959 National Guard: Effective Management Processes 

Needed for Wide-Area Network 

 7 

GAO-02-803 Oregon Inlet Jetty Project: Environmental and 

Economic Concerns Need to Be Resolved 

 3 

GAO-02-732 Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Army 

Vulnerable to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse 

 22 

GAO-02-32 Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Two 

Navy Units Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse 

 37 1 

GAO-02-1041 Purchase Cards: Navy is Vulnerable to Fraud and 

Abuse but Is Taking Action to Resolve Control 

Weaknesses 

 17 2 

GAO-02-608 Reserve Forces: DOD Actions Needed to Better 

Manage Relations between Reservists and Their 

Employers 

 7 

GAO-02-166R Small Business Subcontracting Report Validation 

Can Be Improved 

1 

GAO-02-

402RNI 

Space Surveillance Network: Appropriate Controls 

Needed Over Data Access 

 1 

GAO-02-298 Tactical Aircraft: F-22 Delays Indicate Initial 

Production Rates Should Be Lower to Reduce 

Risks 

 

3 

GAO-02-34 User Fees: DOD Fees for Providing Information Not 

Current and Consistent 

3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-02-1017 VA and Defense Health Care: Increased Risk of 

Medication Errors for Shared Patients 

2 2 

Fiscal year 

2002 total 384 12 326 46 

Source: GAO.

Table 4: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2003 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-03-21 Army Logistics: Report on Manpower and Workload 

System Inadequate and System Interface Untested 

 4 

GAO-03-484R Army Stryker Brigades: Assessment of External 

Logistics Support Should Be Documented for the 

Congressionally Mandated Review of the Army’s 

Operational Evaluation Plan 

 2 

GAO-03-661 Best Practices: Improved Knowledge of DOD 

Service Contracts Could Reveal Significant Savings 

 7 

GAO-03-57 Best Practices: Setting Requirements Differently 

Could Reduce Weapon Systems’ Total Ownership 

Costs 

 1 3 

GAO-03-879R Challenges and Risks Associated with the Joint 

Tactical Radio System Program 

 2 

GAO-03-1031 Chemical Weapons: Sustained Leadership, Along 

With Key Strategic Management Tools, Is Needed 

to Guide DOD’s Destruction Program 

 5 

GAO-03-14 Combating Terrorism: Actions Needed to Guide 

Services’ Antiterrorism Efforts at Installations 

 6 

GAO-03-15 Combating Terrorism: Actions Needed to Improve 

Force Protection for DOD Deployments through 

Domestic Seaports 

 2 

GAO-03-731NI Combating Terrorism: Improvements Needed in 

European Command’s Antiterrorism Approach for 

In-Transit Forces at Seaports 

 3 2 

GAO-03-440 Contract Management: DLA Properly Implemented 

Best Value Contracting for Clothing and Textiles 

and Views Supplier Base as Uncertain 

 1 

GAO-03-935 Contract Management: High-Level Attention 

Needed to Transform DOD Services Acquisition 

 4 

GAO-03-1068 Contract Management: No Reliable Data to 

Measure Benefits of the Simplified Acquisition Test 

Program 

 2 

GAO-03-382 Corps of Engineers: Effects of Restrictions on 

Corps’ Hopper Dredges Should Be 

Comprehensively Analyzed 

 2 1 

GAO-03-442 Defense Acquisition: Advanced SEAL Delivery 

System Program Needs Increased Oversight 

 10 

GAO-03-150 Defense Acquisitions: DOD Has Implemented 

Section 845 Recommendations but Reporting Can 

Be Enhanced 

 1 1 

GAO-03-52 Defense Acquisitions: Factors Affecting Outcomes 

of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations 

 3 

GAO-03-1073 Defense Acquisitions: Improvements Needed in 

Space Systems Acquisition Management Policy 

 1 1 

GAO-03-598 Defense Acquisitions: Matching Resources with 

Requirements Is Key to the Unmanned Combat Air 

Vehicle Program’s Success 

 2 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-03-329 Defense Acquisitions: Steps Needed to Ensure 

Interoperability of Systems That Process 

Intelligence Data 

 3 1 

GAO-03-275 Defense Budget: Improved Reviews Needed to 

Ensure Better Management of Obligated Funds 

 2 

GAO-03-160 Defense Commissaries: Additional Small Business 

Opportunities Should Be Explored 

 1 1 

GAO-03-437 Defense Health Care: Army Needs to Assess the 

Health Status of All Early-Deploying Reservists 

 3 

GAO-03-928 Defense Health Care: Oversight of the TRICARE 

Civilian Provider Network Should Be Improved 

 2 2 

GAO-03-1041 Defense Health Care: Quality Assurance Process 

Needed to Improve Force Health Protection and 

Surveillance 

 1 

GAO-03-643 Defense Infrastructure: Basing Uncertainties 

Necessitate Reevaluation of U.S. Construction 

Plans in South Korea 

 2 

GAO-03-516 Defense Infrastructure: Changes in Funding 

Priorities and Management Processes Needed to 

Improve Condition and Reduce Costs of Guard and 

Reserve Facilities 

 8 

GAO-03-274 Defense Infrastructure: Changes in Funding 

Priorities and Strategic Planning Needed to 

Improve the Condition of Military Facilities 

 5 

GAO-03-417 Defense Infrastructure: Personnel Reductions Have 

Not Hampered Most Commissaries’ Store 

Operations and Customer Service 

 5 

GAO-03-706 Defense Inventory: Air Force Plans and Initiatives 

to Mitigate Spare Parts Shortages Need Better 

Implementation 

 4 1 

GAO-03-18 Defense Inventory: Better Reporting on Spare Parts 

Spending Will Enhance Congressional Oversight 

 2 

GAO-03-708 Defense Inventory: Navy Logistics Strategy and 

Initiatives Need to Address Spare Parts Shortages 

 1 1 

GAO-03-887 Defense Inventory: Opportunities Exist to Improve 

Spare Parts Support Aboard Deployed Navy Ships 

 4 

GAO-03-355 Defense Inventory: Overall Inventory and 

Requirements Are Increasing, but Some 

Reductions in Navy Requirements Are Possible 

 1 

GAO-03-709 Defense Inventory: Several Actions Are Needed to 

Further DLA’s Efforts to Mitigate Shortages of 

Critical Parts 

 1 2 

GAO-03-705 Defense Inventory: The Army Needs a Plan to 

Overcome Critical Spare Parts Shortages 

 1 1 

GAO-03-707 Defense Inventory: The Department Needs a 

Focused Effort to Overcome Critical Spare Parts 

Shortages 

 2 

GAO-03-214 Defense Management: Army Needs to Address 

Resource and Mission Requirements Affecting Its 

Training and Doctrine Command 

 2 2 

GAO-03-818 Defense Management: DOD Faces Challenges 

Implementing Its Core Competency Approach and 

A-76 Competitions 

 1 1 

GAO-03-17 Defense Management: Munitions Requirements 

and Combatant Commanders’ Needs Require 

Linkage 

 1 

GAO-03-753 Defense Management: Opportunities to Reduce 

Corrosion Costs and Increase Readiness 

 10 

GAO-03-861 Defense Pilot Programs: DOD Needs to Improve 

Implementation Process for Pilot Programs 

 3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-03-379 Defense Space Activities: Organizational Changes 

Initiated, but Further Management Actions Needed 

 2 3 

GAO-03-694 Defense Trade: Better Information Needed to 

Support Decisions Affecting Proposed Weapons 

Transfers 

 4 2 

GAO-03-367 Defense Transportation: Monitoring Costs and 

Benefits Needed While Implementing a New 

Program for Moving Household Goods 

2 2 

GAO-03-16 Depot Maintenance: Change in Reporting Practices 

and Requirements Could Enhance Congressional 

Oversight 

 4 1 

GAO-03-1023 Depot Maintenance: DOD’s 50-50 Reporting 

Should Be Streamlined 

 6 

GAO-03-682 Depot Maintenance: Key Unresolved Issues Affect 

the Army Depot System’s Viability 

 2 

GAO-03-423 Depot Maintenance: Public-Private Partnerships 

Have Increased, but Long-Term Growth and 

Results Are Uncertain 

 4 

GAO-03-465 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued 

Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be 

Justified 

 2 

GAO-03-1018 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important 

Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise 

Architecture, but Much Work Remains 

2 8 

GAO-03-458 DOD Business Systems Modernization: 

Improvements to Enterprise Architecture 

Development and Implementation Efforts Needed 

1 5 

GAO-03-472 DOD Civilian Personnel: Improved Strategic 

Planning Needed to Help Ensure Viability of DOD’s 

Civilian Industrial Workforce 

 18 

GAO-03-727 DOD Contract Payments: Management Action 

Needed to Reduce Billions in Adjustments to 

Contract Payment Records 

1 3 

GAO-03-1046 DOD Personnel: Documentation of the Army’s 

Civilian Workforce-Planning Model Needed to 

Enhance Credibility 

 1 

GAO-03-475 DOD Personnel: DOD Actions Needed to 

Strengthen Civilian Human Capital Strategic 

Planning and Integration with Military Personnel 

and Sourcing Decisions 

 2 2 

GAO-03-783 Drug Control: Specific Performance Measures and 

Long-Term Costs for U.S. Programs in Colombia 

Have Not Been Developed 

 1 

GAO-03-51 Electronic Warfare: Comprehensive Strategy Still 

Needed for Suppressing Enemy Air Defenses 

 1 1 

GAO-03-639 Environmental Compliance: Better DOD Guidance 

Needed to Ensure That the Most Important 

Activities Are Funded 

 1 

GAO-03-146 Environmental Contamination: DOD Has Taken 

Steps to Improve Cleanup Coordination at Former 

Defense Sites but Clearer Guidance Is Needed to 

Ensure Consistency 

 4 

GAO-03-457 Financial Management: DOD’s Metrics Program 

Provides Focus for Improving Performance 

 3 

GAO-03-939R Foreign Military Sales: Air Force Does Not Use 

Controls to Prevent Spare Parts Containing 

Sensitive Military Technology from Being Released 

to Foreign Countries 

 2 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-03-664 Foreign Military Sales: Improved Air Force Controls 

Could Prevent Unauthorized Shipments of 

Classified and Controlled Spare Parts to Foreign 

Countries 

 5 

GAO-03-670 Homeland Defense: DOD Needs to Assess the 

Structure of U.S. Forces for Domestic Military 

Missions 

 1 

GAO-03-371 Information Technology: DOD Needs to Leverage 

Lessons Learned from Its Outsourcing Projects 

 2 

GAO-03-33 Information Technology: Issues Affecting Cost 

Impact of Navy Marine Corps Intranet Need to Be 

Resolved 

 4 

GAO-03-775 Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Cooperative 

Program Needs Greater Oversight to Ensure Goals 

Are Met 

 3 1 

GAO-03-723 Military Base Closures: Better Planning Needed for 

Future Reserve Enclaves 

 2 

GAO-03-1017 Military Education: DOD Needs to Align Academy 

Preparatory Schools’ Mission Statements with 

Overall Guidance and Establish Performance Goals 

 3 

GAO-03-1000 Military Education: DOD Needs to Enhance 

Performance Goals and Measures to Improve 

Oversight of Military Academies 

 1 

GAO-03-602 Military Housing: Opportunities That Should Be 

Explored to Improve Housing and Reduce Costs for 

Unmarried Junior Servicemembers 

 5 

GAO-03-257R Military Housing: Opportunity for Reducing Planned 

Military Construction Costs for Barracks 

 2 

GAO-03-695 Military Operations: Contractors Provide Vital 

Services to Deployed Forces but Are Not 

Adequately Addressed in DOD Plans 

 3 3 

GAO-03-1088 Military Operations: Fiscal Year 2003 Obligations 

Are Substantial, but May Result in Less Obligations 

Than Expected 

 3 

GAO-03-921 Military Personnel: DOD Actions Needed to 

Improve the Efficiency of Mobilizations for Reserve 

Forces 

1 13 

GAO-03-1004 Military Personnel: DOD Needs More Data to 

Address Financial and Health Care Issues Affecting 

Reservists 

 8 

GAO-03-554 Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Assess Certain 

Factors in Determining Whether Hazardous Duty 

Pay Is Warranted for Duty in the Polar Regions 

 1 

GAO-03-238 Military Personnel: Joint Officer Development Has 

Improved, but a Strategic Approach Is Needed 

 4 

GAO-03-149 Military Personnel: Management and Oversight of 

Selective Reenlistment Bonus Program Needs 

Improvement 

 2 2 

GAO-03-520 Military Personnel: Navy Actions Needed to 

Optimize Ship Crew Size and Reduce Total 

Ownership Costs 

 5 

GAO-03-237 Military Personnel: Oversight Process Needed to 

Help Maintain Momentum of DOD’s Strategic 

Human Capital Planning 

 1 

GAO-03-278 Military Readiness: Civil Reserve Air Fleet Can 

Respond as Planned, but Incentives May Need 

Revamping 

 2 

GAO-03-300 Military Readiness: DOD Needs a Clear and 

Defined Process for Setting Aircraft Availability 

Goals in the New Security Environment 

 4 1 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-03-451 Military Readiness: DOD Needs to Better Manage 

Automatic Test Equipment Modernization 

 6 

GAO-03-505 Military Readiness: Lingering Training and 

Equipment Issues Hamper Air Support of Ground 

Forces 

 2 2 

GAO-03-456 Military Readiness: New Reporting System Is 

Intended to Address Long-Standing Problems, but 

Better Planning Is Needed 

 3 

GAO-03-1005 Military Recruiting: DOD Needs to Establish 

Objectives and Measures to Better Evaluate 

Advertising’s Effectiveness 

 1 

GAO-03-976 Military Training: Implementation Strategy Needed 

to Increase Interagency Management for 

Endangered Species Affecting Training Ranges 

 3 

GAO-03-1026 Military Training: Strategic Planning and Distributive 

Learning Could Benefit the Special Operations 

Forces Foreign Language Program 

 2 2 

GAO-03-801 Military Transformation: Realistic Deployment 

Timelines Needed for Army Stryker Brigades 

 2 

GAO-03-402R Military Treatment Facilities: Eligibility Follow-up at 

Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center 

 2 

GAO-03-168 Military Treatment Facilities: Internal Control 

Activities Need Improvement 

2 8 

GAO-03-600 Missile Defense: Additional Knowledge Needed in 

Developing System for Intercepting Long-Range 

Missiles 

 1 2 

GAO-03-597 Missile Defense: Alternate Approaches to Space 

Tracking and Surveillance System Need to Be 

Considered 

 1 3 

GAO-03-441 Missile Defense: Knowledge-Based Practices Are 

Being Adopted, but Risks Remain 

 1 1 

GAO-03-668 Navy Working Capital Fund: Backlog of Funded 

Work at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems 

Command Was Consistently Understated 

 13 1 

GAO-03-292 Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave the 

Air Force Vulnerable to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse 

 37 1 

GAO-03-13 Quadrennial Defense Review: Future Reviews Can 

Benefit from Better Analysis and Changes in Timing 

and Scope 

 3 

GAO-03-617R Spectrum Management in Defense Acquisitions 4 5 

GAO-03-280 Tactical Aircraft: DOD Needs to Better Inform 

Congress about Implications of Continuing F/A-22 

Cost Growth 

 1 3 

GAO-03-431 Tactical Aircraft: DOD Should Reconsider Decision 

to Increase F/A-22 Production Rates While 

Development Risks Continue 

 2 

GAO-03-298 Travel Cards: Air Force Management Focus Has 

Reduced Delinquencies, but Improvements in 

Controls Are Needed 

 16 

GAO-03-169 Travel Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Army 

Vulnerable to Potential Fraud and Abuse 

 24 2 

GAO-03-147 Travel Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Navy 

Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse 

 24 1 

GAO-03-482 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Additional Russian 

Cooperation Needed to Facilitate U.S. Efforts to 

Improve Security at Russian Sites 

 3 1 

Fiscal year 

2003 total 500 9 409 82 

Source: GAO.

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Table 5: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2004 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-04-498 Air Force Depot Maintenance: Improved Pricing 

and Cost Reduction Practices Needed 

 6 

GAO-04-410 Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to 

Continue to Collect and Provide Information on 

Tests and on Potentially Exposed Personnel 

 3 

GAO-04-855 Combating Terrorism: DOD Efforts to Improve 

Installation Preparedness Can Be Enhanced with 

Clarified Responsibilities and Comprehensive 

Planning 

 5 

GAO-04-851NI Combating Terrorism: Improvements Needed in 

Pacific Command’s Antiterrorism Approach for InTransit Forces at Seaports 

 4 

GAO-04-80NI Combating Terrorism: Improvements Needed in 

Southern Command’s Antiterrorism Approach for 

In-Transit Forces at Seaports 

 4 

GAO-04-687 Computer-Based Patient Records: VA and DOD 

Efforts to Exchange Health Data Could Benefit from 

Improved Planning and Project Management 

 4 

GAO-04-430 Contract Management: Agencies Can Achieve 

Significant Savings on Purchase Card Buys 

 2 1 

GAO-04-381 Contract Management: DOD Needs Measures for 

Small Business Subcontracting Program and Better 

Data on Foreign Subcontracts 

 1 1 

GAO-04-874 Contract Management: Guidance Needed to 

Promote Competition for Defense Task Orders 

 3 

GAO-04-30 Corps of Engineers: Improved Analysis of Costs 

and Benefits Needed for Sacramento Flood 

Protection Project 

 6 

GAO-04-48 Defense Acquisitions: Despite Restructuring, 

SBIRS High Program Remains at Risk of Cost and 

Schedule Overruns 

 6 

GAO-04-302 Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Better 

Support Program Managers’ Implementation of 

Anti-Tamper Protection 

 3 2 

GAO-04-53 Defense Acquisitions: DOD’s Revised Policy 

Emphasizes Best Practices, but More Controls Are 

Needed 

 13 

GAO-04-678 Defense Acquisitions: Knowledge of Software 

Suppliers Needed to Manage Risks 

3 

GAO-04-759 Defense Acquisitions: Space-Based Radar Effort 

Needs Additional Knowledge before Starting 

Development 

 2 2 

GAO-04-393 Defense Acquisitions: Stronger Management 

Practices Are Needed to Improve DOD’s SoftwareIntensive Weapon Acquisitions 

 4 

GAO-04-69 Defense Health Care: TRICARE Claims Processing 

Has Improved but Inefficiencies Remain 

 1 

GAO-04-609NI Defense Infrastructure: Factors Affecting U.S. 

Infrastructure Costs Overseas and the 

Development of Comprehensive Master Plans 

 2 

GAO-04-555 Defense Infrastructure: Issues Related to the 

Renovation of General and Flag Officer Quarters 

 3 

GAO-04-288 Defense Infrastructure: Long-term Challenges in 

Managing the Military Construction Program 

 3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-04-689 Defense Inventory: Analysis of Consumption of 

Inventory Exceeding Current Operating 

Requirements Since September 30, 2001 

 3 

GAO-04-779 Defense Inventory: Navy Needs to Improve the 

Management Over Government-Furnished Material 

Shipped to Its Repair Contractors 

 3 

GAO-04-427R Defense Management: Continuing Questionable 

Reliance on Commercial Contracts to Demilitarize 

Excess Ammunition When Unused, 

Environmentally Friendly Capacity Exists at 

Government Facilities 

 3 

GAO-04-56 Defense Management: DOD Needs to Strengthen 

Internal Controls over Funds Used to Support USO 

Activities 

 5 

GAO-04-296 Defense Management: Issues in Contracting for 

Lodging and Temporary Office Space at MacDill Air 

Force Base 

 1 

GAO-04-640 Defense Management: Opportunities Exist to 

Improve Implementation of DOD’s Long-Term 

Corrosion Strategy 

 7 

GAO-04-715 Defense Management: Opportunities to Enhance 

the Implementation of Performance-Based Logistics 

 2 

GAO-04-919 Defense Management: Tools for Measuring and 

Managing Defense Agency Performance Could Be 

Strengthened 

 5 

GAO-04-697 Defense Space Activities: Additional Actions 

Needed to Implement Human Capital Strategy and 

Develop Space Personnel 

 5 

GAO-04-220 Depot Maintenance: Army Needs Plan to 

Implement Depot Maintenance Report’s 

Recommendations 

 1 

GAO-04-871 Depot Maintenance: DOD Needs Plan to Ensure 

Compliance with Public- and Private-Sector 

Funding Allocation 

 4 

GAO-04-615 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Billions 

Continue to Be Invested with Inadequate 

Management Oversight and Accountability 

1 3 

GAO-04-753 DOD Civilian Personnel: Comprehensive Strategic 

Workforce Plans Needed 

 1 2 

GAO-04-15NI DOD Excess Property: Risk Assessment Needed 

on Public Sales of Equipment That Could Be Used 

to Make Biological Agents 

 6 1 

GAO-04-601 DOD Operational Ranges: More Reliable Cleanup 

Cost Estimates and a Proactive Approach to 

Identifying Contamination Are Needed 

1 1 

GAO-04-632 DOD Personnel Clearances: Additional Steps Can 

Be Taken to Reduce Backlogs and Delays in 

Determining Security Clearance Eligibility for 

Industry Personnel 

 2 2 

GAO-04-344 DOD Personnel Clearances: DOD Needs to 

Overcome Impediments to Eliminating Backlog and 

Determining Its Size 

 4 

GAO-04-398 DOD Travel Cards: Control Weaknesses Led to 

Millions of Dollars Wasted on Unused Airline 

Tickets 

 47 

GAO-04-576 DOD Travel Cards: Control Weaknesses Resulted 

in Millions of Dollars of Improper Payments 

2 9 

GAO-04-93 Endangered Species: Federal Agencies Have 

Worked to Improve the Consultation Process, but 

More Management Attention Is Needed 

 2 1 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-04-664 Federal Acquisition: Increased Attention to Vehicle 

Fleets Could Result in Savings 

 3 

GAO-04-910R Financial Management: Further Actions Are 

Needed to Establish Framework to Guide Audit 

Opinion and Business Management Improvement 

Efforts at DOD 

 4 

GAO-04-95 Financial Management: Some DOD Contractors 

Abuse the Federal Tax System with Little 

Consequence 

 4 

GAO-04-900 Force Structure: Department of the Navy’s Tactical 

Aviation Integration Plan Is Reasonable, but Some 

Factors Could Affect Implementation 

 2 1 

GAO-04-342 Force Structure: Improved Strategic Planning Can 

Enhance DOD’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Efforts 

 2 

GAO-04-327 Foreign Military Sales: Improved Army Controls 

Could Prevent Unauthorized Shipments of 

Classified Spare Parts and Items Containing 

Military Technology to Foreign Countries 

 2 2 

GAO-04-507 Foreign Military Sales: Improved Navy Controls 

Could Prevent Unauthorized Shipments of 

Classified and Controlled Spare Parts to Foreign 

Countries 

 7 1 

GAO-04-514 Future Years Defense Program: Actions Needed to 

Improve Transparency of DOD’s Projected 

Resource Needs 

 4 

GAO-04-159 Gulf War Illnesses: DOD’s Conclusions about U.S. 

Troops’ Exposure Cannot Be Adequately 

Supported 

 1 1 

GAO-04-332 Industrial Security: DOD Cannot Provide Adequate 

Assurances That Its Oversight Ensures the 

Protection of Classified Information 

8 

GAO-04-49 Information Technology Management: 

Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance 

Measurement, and Investment Management Can 

Be Further Improved 

 22 

GAO-04-722 Information Technology: DOD’s Acquisition Policies 

and Guidance Need to Incorporate Additional Best 

Practices and Controls 

 11 2 

GAO-04-115 Information Technology: Improvements Needed in 

the Reliability of Defense Budget Submissions 

 5 3 

GAO-04-349 Military Aircraft: DOD Needs to Determine Its Aerial 

Refueling Aircraft Requirements 

 1 1 

GAO-04-760 Military Base Closures: Assessment of DOD’s 2004 

Report on the Need for a Base Realignment and 

Closure Round 

 1 

GAO-04-873 Military Education: DOD Needs to Develop 

Performance Goals and Metrics for Advanced 

Distributed Learning in Professional Military 

Education 

 1 1 

GAO-04-111 Military Housing: Better Reporting Needed on the 

Status of the Privatization Program and the Costs 

of Its Consultants 

 3 

GAO-04-556 Military Housing: Further Improvement Needed in 

Requirements Determinations and Program Review 

 3 1 

GAO-04-583 Military Housing: Opportunities Exist to Better 

Explain Family Housing O&M Budget Requests and 

Increase Visibility Over Reprogramming of Funds 

 3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-04-147 Military Munitions: DOD Needs to Develop a 

Comprehensive Approach for Cleaning Up 

Contaminated Sites 

 4 

GAO-04-452 Military Operations: DOD Needs to Provide Central 

Direction for Supporting Coalition Liaison Officers 

1 1 

GAO-04-854 Military Operations: DOD’s Extensive Use of 

Logistics Support Contracts Requires Strengthened 

Oversight 

 1 3 

GAO-04-915 Military Operations: Fiscal Year 2004 Costs for the 

Global War on Terrorism Will Exceed 

Supplemental, Requiring DOD to Shift Funds from 

Other Uses 

 3 

GAO-04-547 Military Operations: Recent Campaigns Benefited 

from Improved Communications and Technology, 

but Barriers to Continued Progress Remain 

 4 

GAO-04-89 Military Pay: Army National Guard Personnel 

Mobilized to Active Duty Experienced Significant 

Pay Problems 

22 2 

GAO-04-911 Military Pay: Army Reserve Soldiers Mobilized to 

Active Duty Experienced Significant Pay Problems 

1 14 

GAO-04-149R Military Personnel: DFAS Has Not Met All 

Information Technology Requirements for Its New 

Pay System 

 4 

GAO-04-1003 Military Personnel: DOD Could Make Greater Use 

of Existing Legislative Authority to Manage General 

and Flag Officer Careers 

 1 

GAO-04-805 Military Personnel: DOD Has Not Implemented the 

High Deployment Allowance That Could 

Compensate Servicemembers Deployed Frequently 

for Short Periods 

 3 

GAO-04-1005 Military Personnel: DOD Needs More Data Before It 

Can Determine if Costly Changes to the Reserve 

Retirement System Are Warranted 

2 2 

GAO-04-86 Military Personnel: DOD Needs More Effective 

Controls to Better Assess the Progress of the 

Selective Reenlistment Bonus Program 

 1 1 

GAO-04-1031 Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Address Longterm Reserve Force Availability and Related 

Mobilization and Demobilization Issues 

 8 

GAO-04-488 Military Personnel: General and Flag Officer 

Requirements Are Unclear Based on DOD’s 2003 

Report to Congress 

 3 1 

GAO-04-112 Military Readiness: DOD Needs to Reassess 

Program Strategy, Funding Priorities, and Risks for 

Selected Equipment 

 2 

GAO-04-608 Military Training: DOD Report on Training Ranges 

Does Not Fully Address Congressional Reporting 

Requirements 

 4 

GAO-04-925 Military Transformation: Fielding of Army’s Stryker 

Vehicles Is Well Under Way, but Expectations for 

Their Transportability by C-130 Aircraft Need to Be 

Clarified 

 2 

GAO-04-188 Military Transformation: The Army and OSD Met 

Legislative Requirements for First Stryker Brigade 

Design Evaluation, but Issues Remain for Future 

Brigades 

 2 

GAO-04-322R Military Treatment Facilities: Improvements Needed 

to Increase DOD Third-Party Collections 

 2 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-04-409 Missile Defense: Actions Are Needed to Enhance 

Testing and Accountability 

1 5 

GAO-04-254 Missile Defense: Actions Being Taken to Address 

Testing Recommendations, but Updated 

Assessment Needed 

 1 

GAO-04-519 Nonproliferation: Further Improvements Needed in 

U.S. Efforts to Counter Threats from Man-Portable 

Air Defense Systems 

 2 1 

GAO-04-175 Nonproliferation: Improvements Needed to Better 

Control Technology Exports for Cruise Missiles and 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

 1 1 

GAO-04-484 Operation Iraqi Freedom: Long-standing Problems 

Hampering Mail Delivery Need to Be Resolved 

 4 

GAO-04-156 Purchase Cards: Steps Taken to Improve DOD 

Program Management, but Actions Needed to 

Address Misuse 

 3 

GAO-04-605 Rebuilding Iraq: Fiscal Year 2003 Contract Award 

Procedures and Management Challenges 

 3 2 

GAO-04-924 Russian Nuclear Submarines: U.S. Participation in 

the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation 

Program Needs Better Justification 

 4 

GAO-04-206 Satellite Communications: Strategic Approach 

Needed for DOD’s Procurement of Commercial 

Satellite Bandwidth 

 7 

GAO-04-71R Space Acquisitions: Committing Prematurely to the 

Transformational Satellite Program Elevates Risks 

for Poor Cost, Schedule, and Performance 

Outcomes 

 5 

GAO-04-391 Tactical Aircraft: Changing Conditions Drive Need 

for New F/A-22 Business Case 

 1 1 

GAO-04-88 Travel Cards: Internal Control Weaknesses at DOD 

Led to Improper Use of First and Business Class 

Travel 

3 15 

GAO-04-643R Uncertainties Remain Concerning the Airborne 

Laser’s Cost and Military Utility 

 1 

GAO-04-671 Vendor Payments: Inadequate Management 

Oversight Hampers the Navy’s Ability to Effectively 

Manage Its Telecommunication Program 

5 6 

GAO-04-297 Waters and Wetlands: Corps of Engineers Needs to 

Evaluate Its District Office Practices in Determining 

Jurisdiction 

 3 

GAO-04-330 Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Defense Threat 

Reduction Agency Addresses Broad Range of 

Threats, but Performance Reporting Can Be 

Improved 

 1 

Fiscal year 

2004 total 478 28 391 59 

Source: GAO.

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Table 6: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2005 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-05-575 Afghanistan Security: Efforts to Establish Army and 

Police Have Made Progress, but Future Plans Need 

to Be Better Defined 

 2 

GAO-05-615 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Business 

Plan’s Implementation Is Unlikely to Achieve 

Expected Financial Benefits and Could Reduce 

Civilian Role 

 1 

GAO-05-946 Army Corps of Engineers: Improved Planning and 

Financial Management Should Replace Reliance 

on Reprogramming Actions to Manage Project 

Funds 

 5 

GAO-05-441 Army Depot Maintenance: Ineffective Oversight of 

Depot Maintenance Operations and System 

Implementation Efforts 

 9 

GAO-05-79 Army National Guard: Inefficient, Error-Prone 

Process Results in Travel Reimbursement 

Problems for Mobilized Soldiers 

1 18 4 

GAO-05-55 Capital Financing: Partnerships and Energy 

Savings Performance Contracts Raise Budgeting 

and Monitoring Concerns 

 1 

GAO-05-8 Chemical and Biological Defense: Army and Marine 

Corps Need to Establish Minimum Training Tasks 

and Improve Reporting for Combat Training 

Centers 

 4 

GAO-05-274 Contract Management: Opportunities to Improve 

Surveillance on Department of Defense Service 

Contracts 

 5 

GAO-05-169 Contract Management: The Air Force Should 

Improve How It Purchases AWACS Spare Parts 

 3 

GAO-05-329 Cooperative Threat Reduction: DOD Has Improved 

Its Management and Internal Controls, but 

Challenges Remain 

 1 

GAO-05-817 Defense Acquisitions: Actions Needed to Ensure 

Adequate Funding for Operation and Sustainment 

of the Ballistic Missile Defense System 

 2 

GAO-05-273 Defense Acquisitions: Changes in E-10A 

Acquisition Strategy Needed before Development 

Starts 

 2 

GAO-05-183 Defense Acquisitions: Improved Management 

Practices Could Help Minimize Cost Growth in 

Navy Shipbuilding Programs 

 6 1 

GAO-05-182 Defense Acquisitions: Information for Congress on 

Performance of Major Programs Can Be More 

Complete, Timely, and Accessible 

 4 

GAO-05-255 Defense Acquisitions: Plans Need to Allow Enough 

Time to Demonstrate Capability of First Littoral 

Combat Ships 

 3 

GAO-05-669 Defense Acquisitions: Resolving Development 

Risks in the Army’s Networked Communications 

Capabilities Is Key to Fielding Future Force 

 4 

GAO-05-243 Defense Acquisitions: Status of Ballistic Missile 

Defense Program in 2004 

 1 

GAO-05-687 Defense Ammunition: DOD Meeting Small and 

Medium Caliber Ammunition Needs, but Additional 

Actions Are Necessary 

 2 

GAO-05-341 Defense Ethics Program: Opportunities Exist to 

Strengthen Safeguards for Procurement Integrity 

 3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-05-773 Defense Health Care: Implementation Issues for 

New TRICARE Contracts and Regional Structure 

 3 

GAO-05-632 Defense Health Care: Improvements Needed in 

Occupational and Environmental Health 

Surveillance during Deployments to Address 

Immediate and Long-Term Health Issues 

 1 2 

GAO-05-556 Defense Infrastructure: Issues Need to Be 

Addressed in Managing and Funding Base 

Operations and Facilities Support 

 1 

GAO-05-433 Defense Infrastructure: Management Issue 

Requiring Attention in Utility Privatization 

 7 1 

GAO-05-15 Defense Inventory: Improvements Needed in 

DOD’s Implementation of Its Long-Term Strategy 

for Total Asset Visibility of Its Inventory 

 3 1 

GAO-05-275 Defense Logistics: Actions Needed to Improve the 

Availability of Critical Items during Current and 

Future Operations 

 7 2 

GAO-05-427 Defense Logistics: Better Management and 

Oversight of Prepositioning Programs Needed to 

Reduce Risk and Improve Future Programs 

 5 

GAO-05-345 Defense Logistics: Better Strategic Planning Can 

Help Ensure DOD’s Successful Implementation of 

Passive Radio Frequency Identification 

 1 2 

GAO-05-775 Defense Logistics: DOD Has Begun to Improve 

Supply Distribution Operations, but Further Actions 

Are Needed to Sustain These Efforts 

 4 

GAO-05-328 Defense Logistics: High-Level DOD Coordination Is 

Needed to Further Improve the Management of the 

Army’s LOGCAP Contract 

 2 

GAO-05-756R Defense Management: Assessment Should Be 

Done to Clarify Defense Prisoner of War/Missing 

Personnel Office Personnel and Funding Needs 

 3 

GAO-05-966 Defense Management: DOD Needs to Demonstrate 

That Performance-Based Logistics Contracts Are 

Achieving Expected Benefits 

1 1 

GAO-05-765R Defense Management: Munitions Requirements 

and Combatant Commander’s Needs Still Require 

Linkage 

 2 

GAO-05-293 Defense Management: Processes to Estimate and 

Track Equipment Reconstitution Costs Can Be 

Improved 

 5 1 

GAO-05-957 Defense Procurement: Air Force Did Not Fully 

Evaluate Options in Waiving Berry Amendment for 

Selected Aircraft 

 1 1 

GAO-05-833 Defense Space Activities: Management and 

Guidance Performance Measures Needed to 

Develop Personnel 

 2 

GAO-05-480 Defense Technology Development: Management 

Process Can Be Strengthened for New Technology 

Transition Programs 

3 2 

GAO-05-70 Defense Transformation: Clear Leadership, 

Accountability, and Management Tools Are Needed 

to Enhance DOD’s Efforts to Transform Military 

Capabilities 

 3 

GAO-05-819 Defense Transportation: Air Mobility Command 

Needs to Collect and Analyze Better Data to 

Assess Aircraft Utilization 

 2 

GAO-05-659R Defense Transportation: Opportunities Exist to 

Enhance the Credibility of the Current and Future 

Mobility Capabilities Studies 

 3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-05-381 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Billions 

Being Invested without Adequate Oversight 

1 3 

GAO-05-702 DOD Business Systems Modernization: LongStanding Weaknesses in Enterprise Architecture 

Development Need to Be Addressed 

 3 

GAO-05-858 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Navy ERP 

Adherence to Best Business Practices Critical to 

Avoid Past Failures 

3 

GAO-05-277 DOD Excess Property: Management Control 

Breakdowns Result in Substantial Waste and 

Inefficiency 

 13 

GAO-05-521 DOD Problem Disbursements: Long-standing 

Accounting Weaknesses Result in Inaccurate 

Records and Substantial Write-offs 

 3 

GAO-05-469 DOD Schools: Limitations in DOD-Sponsored Study 

on Transfer Alternatives Underscore Need for 

Additional Assessment 

 1 

GAO-05-189 DOD Systems Modernization: Management of 

Integrated Military Human Capital Program Needs 

Additional Improvements 

 6 

GAO-05-340 Energy Savings: Performance Contracts Offer 

Benefits, but Vigilance Is Needed to Protect 

Government Interests 

 5 

GAO-05-587R Financial Audit: The Department of Defense’s 

Fiscal Year 2004 Management Representation 

Letter on Its Financial Statements 

2 2 

GAO-05-926 Force Structure: Actions Needed to Improve 

Estimates and Oversight of Costs for Transforming 

Army to a Modular Force 

 6 

GAO-05-10 Force Structure: Navy Needs to Fully Evaluate 

Options and Provide Standard Guidance for 

Implementing Surface Ship Rotational Crewing 

 4 

GAO-05-17 Foreign Military Sales: DOD Needs to Take 

Additional Actions to Prevent Unauthorized 

Shipments of Spare Parts 

 3 

GAO-05-882 Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to Improve 

the Reliability of Cost Data and Provide Additional 

Guidance to Control Costs 

1 3 2 

GAO-05-767 Global War on Terrorism: DOD Should Consider All 

Funds Requested for the War When Determining 

Needs and Covering Expenses 

 2 

GAO-05-928T Homeland Security: Agency Resources Address 

Violations of Restricted Airspace, but Management 

Improvements Are Needed 

 6 

GAO-05-730 Human Capital: DOD’s National Security Personnel 

System Faces Implementation Challenges 

 3 

GAO-05-681 Industrial Security: DOD Cannot Ensure Its 

Oversight of Contractors under Foreign Influence Is 

Sufficient 

 2 6 

GAO-05-456 Interagency Contracting: Franchise Funds Provide 

Convenience, but Value to DOD is Not 

Demonstrated 

 2 1 

GAO-05-201 Interagency Contracting: Problems with DOD’s and 

Interior’s Orders to Support Military Operations 

 1 

GAO-05-471 Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Agencies Need 

to Plan for Transition and Manage Security Risks 

 2 

GAO-05-544 Military and Veterans’ Benefits: Enhanced Services 

Could Improve Transition Assistance for Reserves 

and National Guard 

 1 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-05-785 Military Bases: Analysis of DOD’s 2005 Selection 

Process and Recommendations for Base Closures 

and Realignments 

 1 

GAO-05-125 Military Pay: Gaps in Pay and Benefits Create 

Financial Hardships for Injured Army National 

Guard and Reserve Soldiers 

7 15 

GAO-05-696 Military Personnel: DOD Needs Better Controls 

over Supplemental Life Insurance Solicitation 

Policies Involving Servicemembers 

 3 2 

GAO-05-200 Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Conduct a DataDriven Analysis of Active Military Personnel Levels 

Required to Implement the Defense Strategy 

 2 

GAO-05-798 Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Improve the 

Transparency and Reassess the Reasonableness, 

Appropriateness, Affordability, and Sustainability of 

Its Military Compensation System 

 1 2 

GAO-05-87R Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Strengthen the 

Annual Review and Certification of Military 

Personnel Obligations 

 1 1 

GAO-05-349 Military Personnel: DOD’s Tools for Curbing the 

Use and Effects of Predatory Lending Not Fully 

Utilized 

 1 1 

GAO-05-348 Military Personnel: More DOD Actions Needed to 

Address Servicemembers’ Personal Financial 

Management Issues 

 1 3 

GAO-05-952 Military Personnel: Reporting Additional 

Servicemember Demographics Could Enhance 

Congressional Oversight 

 4 

GAO-05-548 Military Training: Actions Needed to Enhance 

DOD’s Program to Transform Joint Training 

 3 

GAO-05-534 Military Training: Better Planning and Funding 

Priority Needed to Improve Conditions of Military 

Training Ranges 

 4 4 

GAO-05-540 Military Transformation: Actions Needed by DOD to 

More Clearly Identify New Triad Spending and 

Develop a Long-term Investment Approach 

 1 3 

GAO-05-680R Opportunities Exist to Improve Future 

Comprehensive Master Plans for Changing U.S. 

Defense Infrastructure Overseas 

 7 

GAO-05-672 Radiological Sources in Iraq: DOD Should Evaluate 

Its Source Recovery Effort and Apply Lessons 

Learned to Future Recovery Missions 

 2 6 

GAO-05-737 Rebuilding Iraq: Actions Needed To Improve Use of 

Private Security Providers 

 3 1 

GAO-05-21 Reserve Forces: Actions Needed to Better Prepare 

the National Guard for Future Overseas and 

Domestic Missions 

 6 2 

GAO-05-660 Reserve Forces: An Integrated Plan Is Needed to 

Address Army Reserve Personnel and Equipment 

Shortages 

 6 2 

GAO-05-304 Tactical Aircraft: Air Force Still Needs Business 

Case to Support F/A-22 Quantities and Increased 

Capabilities 

 5 

GAO-05-271 Tactical Aircraft: Opportunity to Reduce Risks in the 

Joint Strike Fighter Program with Different 

Acquisition Strategy 

 2 

GAO-05-155 Technology Development: New DOD Space 

Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis 

for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions 

Need to Be More Robust 

 4 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-05-953 U.S. Postal Service: Factors Affecting Fund-Raising 

Stamp Sales Suggest Lessons Learned 

 1 

GAO-05-6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Changes in Global 

Hawk’s Acquisition Strategy Are Needed to Reduce 

Program Risks 

 2 

GAO-05-64 VA and DOD Health Care: Efforts to Coordinate a 

Single Physical Exam Process for Servicemembers 

Leaving the Military 

 1 

GAO-05-167 Vocational Rehabilitation: More VA and DOD 

Collaboration Needed to Expedite Services for 

Seriously Injured Servicemembers 

 1 

GAO-05-870 Waters and Wetlands: Corps of Engineers Needs to 

Better Support Its Decisions for Not Asserting 

Jurisdiction 

 2 

GAO-05-157 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nonproliferation 

Programs Need Better Integration 

 1 

GAO-05-898 Wetlands Protection: Corps of Engineers Does Not 

Have an Effective Oversight Approach to Ensure 

That Compensatory Mitigation Is Occurring 

2 1 

Fiscal year 

2005 total 358 20 254 84 

Source: GAO.

Table 7: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2006 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-06-966 Army Corps of Engineers: Improved Monitoring and 

Clear Guidance Would Contribute to More Effective 

Use of Continuing Contracts 

1 2 

GAO-06-110 Best Practices: Better Support of Weapon System 

Program Managers Needed to Improve Outcomes 

 14 

GAO-06-883 Best Practices: Stronger Practices Needed to 

Improve DOD Technology Transition Processes 

5 1 1 

GAO-06-658 Business Systems Modernization: DOD Continues 

to Improve Institutional Approach, but Further Steps 

Needed 

1 

GAO-06-592 Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs 

Consistent Policies and Clear Processes to 

Address the Survivability of Weapon Systems 

Against Chemical and Biological Threats 

6 

GAO-06-72 Competitive Sourcing: Health Benefits Cost 

Comparison Had Minimal Impact, but DOD Needs 

Uniform Implementation Process 

 1 

GAO-06-399 Contract Management: Increased Use of Alaska 

Native Corporations’ Special 8(a) Provisions Calls 

for Tailored Oversight 

 1 

GAO-06-830 Contract Management: Service Contract Approach 

to Aircraft Simulator Training Has Room for 

Improvement 

 10 

GAO-06-284 Contract Security Guards: Army’s Guard Program 

Requires Greater Oversight and Reassessment of 

Acquisition Approach 

 7 

GAO-06-692 Cooperative Threat Reduction: DOD Needs More 

Reliable Data to Better Estimate the Cost and 

Schedule of the Shchuch’ye Facility 

 3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-06-593 Defense Acquisitions: Better Acquisition Strategy 

Needed for Successful Development of the Army’s 

Warrior Unmanned Aircraft System 

 1 2 

GAO-06-66 Defense Acquisitions: DOD Has Paid Billions in 

Award and Incentive Fees Regardless of 

Acquisition Outcomes 

1 5 1 

GAO-06-211 Defense Acquisitions: DOD Management Approach 

and Processes Not Well-Suited to Support 

Development of Global Information Grid 

2 

GAO-06-987R Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Establish an 

Implementing Directive to Publish Information and 

Take Actions to Improve DOD Information on 

Critical Acquisition Positions 

1 1 

GAO-06-666 Defense Acquisitions: Further Management and 

Oversight Changes Needed for Efforts to 

Modernize Cheyenne Mountain Attack Warning 

Systems 

 8 

GAO-06-367 Defense Acquisitions: Improved Business Case Is 

Needed for Future Combat System’s Successful 

Outcome 

 1 5 

GAO-06-368 Defense Acquisitions: Major Weapon Systems 

Continue to Experience Cost and Schedule 

Problems under DOD’s Revised Policy 

2 2 

GAO-06-327 Defense Acquisitions: Missile Defense Agency 

Fields Initial Capability but Falls Short of Original 

Goals 

2 1 

GAO-06-955 Defense Acquisitions: Restructured JTRS Program 

Reduces Risk, but Significant Challenges Remain 

 2 

GAO-06-349 Defense Acquisitions: The Expeditionary Fighting 

Vehicle Encountered Difficulties in Design 

Demonstration and Faces Future Risks 

 4 

GAO-06-914 Defense Infrastructure: Actions Taken to Improve 

the Management of Utility Privatization, but Some 

Concerns Remain 

3 3 1 

GAO-06-512 Defense Inventory: Actions Needed to Improve 

Inventory Retention Management 

7 

GAO-06-209 Defense Inventory: Army Needs to Strengthen 

Internal Controls for Items Shipped to Repair 

Contractors 

6 

GAO-06-928R Defense Logistics: Changes to Stryker Vehicle 

Maintenance Support Should Identify Strategies for 

Addressing Implementation Challenges 

1 

GAO-06-274 Defense Logistics: Lack of a Synchronized 

Approach between the Marine Corps and Army 

Affected the Timely Production and Installation of 

Marine Corps Truck Armor 

1 1 

GAO-06-366R Defense Logistics: More Efficient Use of Active 

RFID Tags Could Potentially Avoid Millions in 

Unnecessary Purchases 

2 

GAO-06-160 Defense Logistics: Several Factors Limited the 

Production and Installation of Army Truck Armor 

during Current Wartime Operations 

 1 

GAO-06-140 Defense Management: Actions Are Needed to 

Improve the Management and Oversight of the 

National Guard Youth Challenge Program 

1 3 

GAO-06-473 Defense Management: Actions Needed to Improve 

Operational Planning and Visibility of Costs for 

Ballistic Missile Defense 

2 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-06-13 Defense Management: Additional Actions Needed 

to Enhance DOD’s Risk-Based Approach for 

Making Resource Decisions 

4 

GAO-06-709 Defense Management: Additional Measures to 

Reduce Corrosion of Prepositioned Military Assets 

Could Achieve Cost Savings 

4 

GAO-06-739R Defense Management: Attention Is Needed to 

Improve Oversight of DLA Prime Vendor Program 

1 

GAO-06-852 Defense Management: Comprehensive Strategy 

and Annual Reporting Are Needed to Measure 

Progress and Costs of DOD’s Global Posture 

Restructuring 

5 

GAO-06-232 Defense Management: Fully Developed 

Management Framework Needed to Guide Air 

Force Future Total Force Efforts 

 3 

GAO-06-908 Defense Space Activities: Management Actions Are 

Needed to Better Identify, Track, and Train Air 

Force Space Personnel 

4 

GAO-06-793 Defense Technologies: DOD’s Critical 

Technologies Lists Rarely Inform Export Control 

and Other Policy Decisions 

1 6 

GAO-06-938 Defense Transportation: Study Limitations Raise 

Questions about the Adequacy and Completeness 

of the Mobility Capabilities Study and Report 

3 

GAO-06-980 Defense Travel System: Reported Savings 

Questionable and Implementation Challenges 

Remain 

3 1 

GAO-06-530 Defense Working Capital Fund: Military Services 

Did Not Calculate and Report Carryover Amounts 

Correctly 

 8 

GAO-06-547 Department of Energy, Office of Worker Advocacy: 

Deficient Controls Led to Millions of Dollars in 

Improper and Questionable Payments to 

Contractors 

 2 

GAO-06-989 Depot Maintenance: Improvements Needed to 

Achieve Benefits from Consolidations and Funding 

Changes at Naval Shipyards 

3 

GAO-06-88 Depot Maintenance: Persistent Deficiencies Limit 

Accuracy and Usefulness of DOD’s Funding 

Allocation Data Reported to Congress 

 2 

GAO-06-18 DOD Business Transformation: Defense Travel 

System Continues to Face Implementation 

Challenges 

10 

GAO-06-1085 DOD Civilian Personnel: Greater Oversight and 

Quality Assurance Needed to Ensure Force Health 

Protection and Surveillance for Those Deployed 

 1 

GAO-06-995 DOD Contracting: Efforts Needed to Address Air 

Force Commercial Acquisition Risk 

1 1 

GAO-06-358 DOD Payments to Small Business: Implementation 

and Effective Utilization of Electronic Invoicing 

Could Further Reduce Late Payments 

1 4 

GAO-06-215 DOD Systems Modernization: Planned Investment 

in the Naval Tactical Command Support System 

Needs to Be Reassessed 

 2 5 

GAO-06-171 DOD Systems Modernization: Uncertain Joint Use 

and Marginal Expected Value of Military Asset 

Deployment System Warrant Reassessment of 

Planned Investment 

 5 

GAO-06-913R DOD’s Overseas Infrastructure Master Plans 

Continue to Evolve 

 2 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-06-200 Drug Control: Agencies Need to Plan for Likely 

Declines in Drug Interdiction Assets, and Develop 

Better Performance Measures for Transit Zone 

Operations 

2 

GAO-06-446 Electronic Warfare: Option of Upgrading Additional 

EA-6Bs Could Reduce Risk in Development of EA18G 

 2 

GAO-06-831 Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key 

to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for 

Organizational Transformation 

1 

GAO-06-427 Environmental Liabilities: Long-Term Fiscal 

Planning Hampered by Control Weaknesses and 

Uncertainties in the Federal Government’s 

Estimates 

8 

GAO-06-538 Equal Employment Opportunity: DOD’s EEO Pilot 

Program Under Way, but Improvements Needed to 

DOD’s Evaluation Plan 

2 

GAO-06-23 Financial Product Sales: Actions Needed to Better 

Protect Military Members 

 2 

GAO-06-745 Force Structure: Army Needs to Provide DOD and 

Congress More Visibility Regarding Modular Force 

Capabilities and Implementation Plans 

4 

GAO-06-125 Force Structure: Assessments of Navy Reserve 

Manpower Requirements Need to Consider the 

Most Cost-effective Mix of Active and Reserve 

Manpower to Meet Mission Needs 

2 

GAO-06-962 Force Structure: DOD Needs to Integrate Data into 

Its Force Identification Process and Examine 

Options to Meet Requirements for High-Demand 

Support Forces 

2 

GAO-06-498 Homeland Defense: National Guard Bureau Needs 

to Clarify Civil Support Teams’ Mission and 

Address Management Challenges 

 3 

GAO-06-643 Hurricane Katrina: Better Plans and Exercises 

Needed to Guide the Military’s Response to 

Catastrophic Natural Disasters 

4 

GAO-06-460 Hurricane Katrina: Comprehensive Policies and 

Procedures Are Needed to Ensure Appropriate Use 

of and Accountability for International Assistance 

2 

GAO-06-934 Hurricane Katrina: Strategic Planning Needed to 

Guide Future Enhancements Beyond Interim Levee 

Repairs 

2 

GAO-06-1042 Influenza Pandemic: DOD Has Taken Important 

Actions to Prepare, but Accountability, Funding, 

and Communications Need to be Clearer and 

Focused Departmentwide 

 4 

GAO-06-392 Information Assurance: National Partnership Offers 

Benefits, but Faces Considerable Challenges 

2 

GAO-06-31 Information Security: The Defense Logistics Agency 

Needs to Fully Implement Its Security Program 

 10 

GAO-06-356 Joint Strike Fighter: DOD Plans to Enter Production 

before Testing Demonstrates Acceptable 

Performance 

 2 1 

GAO-06-736R Limitations in the Air Force’s Proposed Housing 

Plan for Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany 

 2 

GAO-06-757 Mail Security: Incidents at DOD Mail Facilities 

Exposed Problems That Require Further Actions 

4 

GAO-06-369 Managing Sensitive Information: Departments of 

Energy and Defense Policies and Oversight Could 

Be Improved 

5 1 

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Enclosure I 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-06-706 Managing Sensitive Information: DOD Can More 

Effectively Reduce the Risk of Classification Errors 

6 

GAO-06-362 Military Disability System: Improved Oversight 

Needed to Ensure Consistent and Timely 

Outcomes for Reserve and Active Duty Service 

Members 

5 

GAO-06-438 Military Housing: Management Issues Require 

Attention as the Privatization Program Matures 

3 2 

GAO-06-848R Military Pay: DOD Improperly Paid Army National 

Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers in Deserter 

Status 

3 

GAO-06-384R Military Pay: Inadequate Controls for Stopping 

Overpayments of Hostile Fire and Hardship Duty 

Pay to Over 200 Sick or Injured Army National 

Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers Assigned to Fort 

Bragg 

 1 

GAO-06-1011 Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Strengthen 

Management of Imminent Danger Pay and Combat 

Zone Tax Relief Benefits 

1 1 1 

GAO-06-1068 Military Personnel: DOD and the Services Need to 

Take Additional Steps to Improve Mobilization Data 

for the Reserve Components 

3 1 

GAO-06-134 Military Personnel: DOD Needs Action Plan to 

Address Enlisted Personnel Recruitment and 

Retention Challenges 

2 

GAO-06-1010 Military Personnel: DOD Needs an Oversight 

Framework and Standards to Improve Management 

of Its Casualty Assistance Programs 

 2 

GAO-06-60 Military Personnel: Federal Management of 

Servicemember Employment Rights Can Be 

Further Improved 

7 

GAO-06-642 Military Personnel: Military Departments Need to 

Ensure That Full Costs of Converting Military 

Health Care Positions to Civilian Positions Are 

Reported to Congress 

2 

GAO-06-540 Military Personnel: Progress Made in Implementing 

Recommendations to Reduce Domestic Violence, 

but Further Management Action Needed 

3 2 2 

GAO-06-105 Military Personnel: Top Management Attention Is 

Needed to Address Long-standing Problems with 

Determining Medical and Physical Fitness of the 

Reserve Force 

6 

GAO-06-141 Military Readiness: DOD Needs to Identify and 

Address Gaps and Potential Risks in Program 

Strategies and Funding Priorities for Selected 

Equipment 

2 

GAO-06-84 Military Readiness: Navy’s Fleet Response Plan 

Would Benefit from a Comprehensive Management 

Approach and Rigorous Testing 

2 5 

GAO-06-846 Military Recruiting: DOD and Services Need Better 

Data to Enhance Visibility over Recruiter 

Irregularities 

 4 1 

GAO-06-193 Military Training: Funding Requests for Joint Urban 

Operations Training and Facilities Should Be Based 

on Sound Strategy and Requirements 

 1 1 

GAO-06-802 Military Training: Management Actions Needed to 

Enhance DOD’s Investment in the Joint National 

Training Capability 

 5 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-06-847 Military Transformation: Additional Actions Needed 

by U.S. Strategic Command to Strengthen 

Implementation of Its Many Missions and New 

Organization 

5 

GAO-06-397 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: DOD Needs to 

Identify the Factors Its Providers Use to Make 

Mental Health Evaluation Referrals for 

Servicemembers 

1 

GAO-06-172R Potential Spectrum Interference Associated with 

Military Land Mobile Radios 

 1 

GAO-06-111 Reserve Forces: Plans Needed to Improve Army 

National Guard Equipment Readiness and Better 

Integrate Guard into Army Force Transformation 

Initiatives 

4 

GAO-06-437 Security Assistance: State and DOD Need to 

Assess How the Foreign Military Financing 

Program for Egypt Achieves U.S. Foreign Policy 

and Security Goals 

2 

GAO-06-449 Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs a Departmentwide 

Strategy for Pursuing Low-Cost, Responsive 

Tactical Space Capabilities 

 1 

GAO-06-537 Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs Additional 

Knowledge as it Embarks on a New Approach for 

Transformational Satellite Communications System 

3 1 

GAO-06-812 Special Operations Forces: Several Human Capital 

Challenges Must Be Addressed to Meet Expanded 

Role 

3 

GAO-06-455R Tactical Aircraft: DOD Should Present a New F-22A 

Business Case before Making Further Investments 

 1 

GAO-06-49 Unmanned Aircraft Systems: DOD Needs to More 

Effectively Promote Interoperability and Improve 

Performance Assessments 

9 

GAO-06-222R Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Global Hawk Cost 

Increase Understated in Nunn-McCurdy Report 

 1 

GAO-06-447 Unmanned Aircraft Systems: New DOD Programs 

Can Learn from Past Efforts to Craft Better and 

Less Risky Acquisition Strategies 

 5 

GAO-06-315 VA and DOD Health Care: Opportunities to 

Maximize Resource Sharing Remain 

 2 

GAO-06-839 Weapons Acquisition: DOD Should Strengthen 

Policies for Assessing Technical Data Needs to 

Support Weapon Systems 

 5 

Fiscal year 

2006 total 393 196 169 28 

Source: GAO.

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Table 8: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2007 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-07-790R Armed Forces Retirement Home: Health Care 

Oversight Should Be Strengthened 

 4 

GAO-07-891R Aviation Security: Federal Coordination for 

Responding to In-flight Security Threats Has 

Matured, but Procedures Can Be Strengthened 

 2 

GAO-07-388 Best Practices: An Integrated Portfolio 

Management Approach to Weapon System 

Investments Could Improve DOD’s Acquisition 

Outcomes 

6 1 

GAO-07-538 Business Systems Modernization: DOD Needs to 

Fully Define Policies and Procedures for 

Institutionally Managing Investments 

9 

GAO-07-451 Business Systems Modernization: Strategy for 

Evolving DOD’s Business Enterprise Architecture 

Offers a Conceptual Approach, but Execution 

Details Are Needed 

1 

GAO-07-143 Chemical and Biological Defense: Management 

Actions Are Needed to Close the Gap between 

Army Chemical Unit Preparedness and Stated 

National Priorities 

4 

GAO-07-113 Chemical and Biological Defense: Updated 

Intelligence, Clear Guidance, and Consistent 

Priorities Needed to Guide Investments in 

Collective Protection 

4 

GAO-07-240R Chemical Demilitarization: Actions Needed to 

Improve the Reliability of the Army’s Cost 

Comparison Analysis for Treatment and Disposal 

Options for Newport’s VX Hydrolysate 

4 

GAO-07-200NI Combating Terrorism: Improved Training and 

Guidance Needed to More Effectively Address Host 

Nation Support and Enhance DOD’s Force 

Protection Efforts 

5 

GAO-07-151 Contract Management: Protégés Value DOD’s 

Mentor-Protégé Program, but Annual Reporting to 

Congress Needs Improvement 

2 

GAO-07-367R Defense Acquisitions: Air Force Decision to Include 

a Passenger and Cargo Capability in Its 

Replacement Refueling Aircraft Was Made without 

Required Analyses 

 2 

GAO-07-620 Defense Acquisitions: An Analysis of the Special 

Operations Command’s Management of Weapon 

System Programs 

 3 

GAO-07-759 Defense Acquisitions: Analysis of Processes Used 

to Evaluate Active Protection Systems 

 1 

GAO-07-115 Defense Acquisitions: Challenges Remain in 

Developing Capabilities for Naval Surface Fire 

Support 

1 3 

GAO-07-1058 Defense Acquisitions: DOD’s Research and 

Development Budget Requests to Congress Do Not 

Provide Consistent, Complete, and Clear 

Information 

2 

GAO-07-578 Defense Acquisitions: Greater Synergies Possible 

for DOD’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and 

Reconnaissance Systems 

2 

GAO-07-376 Defense Acquisitions: Key Decisions to Be Made 

on Future Combat System 

 5 7 

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Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-07-387 Defense Acquisitions: Missile Defense Acquisition 

Strategy Generates Results but Delivers Less at a 

Higher Cost 

4 1 

GAO-07-866 Defense Acquisitions: Navy Faces Challenges 

Constructing the Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford 

within Budget 

1 2 3 

GAO-07-380 Defense Acquisitions: Role of Lead Systems 

Integrator on Future Combat Systems Program 

Poses Oversight Challenges 

2 2 

GAO-07-546 Defense Acquisitions: Status and Challenges of 

Joint Forces Command’s Limited Acquisition 

Authority 

 3 

GAO-07-745 Defense Acquisitions: Success of Advanced SEAL 

Delivery System Hinges on Establishing a Sound 

Contracting Strategy and Performance Criteria 

3 

GAO-07-20 Defense Acquisitions: Tailored Approach Needed to 

Improve Service Acquisition Outcomes 

6 

GAO-07-1072 Defense Business Transformation: Achieving 

Success Requires a Chief Management Officer to 

Provide Focus and Sustained Leadership 

2 

GAO-07-839 Defense Contract Management: DOD’s Lack of 

Adherence to Key Contracting Principles on Iraq Oil 

Contract Put Government Interests at Risk 

1 

GAO-07-273 Defense Contracting: Improved Insight and 

Controls Needed over DOD’s Time-and-Materials 

Contracts 

 6 

GAO-07-559 Defense Contracting: Use of Undefinitized Contract 

Actions Understated and Definitization Time 

Frames Often Not Met 

1 3 1 

GAO-07-831 Defense Health Care: Comprehensive Oversight 

Framework Needed to Help Ensure Effective 

Implementation of a Deployment Health Quality 

Assurance Program 

3 

GAO-07-461 Defense Infrastructure: Actions Needed to Guide 

DOD’s Efforts to Identify, Prioritize, and Assess Its 

Critical Infrastructure 

8 

GAO-07-1007 Defense Infrastructure: Challenges Increase Risks 

for Providing Timely Infrastructure Support for Army 

Installations Expecting Substantial Personnel 

Growth 

2 

GAO-07-164 Defense Infrastructure: Continuing Challenges in 

Managing DOD Lodging Programs as Army Moves 

to Privatize Its Program 

1 1 

GAO-07-1077 Defense Infrastructure: Management Actions 

Needed to Ensure Effectiveness of DOD’s Risk 

Management Approach for the Defense Industrial 

Base 

 4 

GAO-07-281 Defense Inventory: Opportunities Exist to Improve 

the Management of DOD’s Acquisition Lead Times 

for Spare Parts 

11 

GAO-07-232 Defense Inventory: Opportunities Exist to Save 

Billions by Reducing Air Force’s Unneeded Spare 

Parts Inventory 

4 

GAO-07-814 Defense Logistics: Army and Marine Corps Cannot 

Be Assured That Equipment Reset Strategies Will 

Sustain Equipment Availability While Meeting 

Ongoing Operational Requirements 

2 

GAO-07-807 Defense Logistics: Efforts to Improve Distribution 

and Supply Support for Joint Military Operations 

Could Benefit from a Coordinated Management 

Approach 

2 

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Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-07-144 Defense Logistics: Improved Oversight and 

Increased Coordination Needed to Ensure Viability 

of the Army’s Prepositioning Strategy 

2 

GAO-07-396R Defense Management: DLA Has Made Progress in 

Improving Prime Vendor Program, but Has Not Yet 

Completed All Corrective Actions 

1 

GAO-07-618 Defense Management: High-Level Leadership 

Commitment and Actions Are Needed to Address 

Corrosion Issues 

 4 

GAO-07-1103 Defense Trade: Clarification and More 

Comprehensive Oversight of Export Exemptions 

Certified by DOD Are Needed 

2 

GAO-07-675R Defense Transportation: DOD Has Taken Actions 

to Incorporate Lessons Learned in Transforming Its 

Freight Distribution System 

1 

GAO-07-671 Defense Transportation: DOD Needs a 

Comprehensive Approach to Planning for 

Implementing Its New Personal Property Program 

3 

GAO-07-126 Depot Maintenance: Actions Needed to Provide 

More Consistent Funding Allocation Data to 

Congress 

 2 

GAO-07-88 Disaster Assistance: Better Planning Needed for 

Housing Victims of Catastrophic Disasters 

1 

GAO-07-554R DOD and VA Outpatient Pharmacy Data: 

Computable Data Are Exchanged for Some Shared 

Patients, but Additional Steps Could Facilitate 

Exchanging These Data for All Shared Patients 

 3 

GAO-07-733 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Progress 

Continues to Be Made in Establishing Corporate 

Management Controls, but Further Steps Are 

Needed 

1 

GAO-07-860 DOD Business Transformation: Lack of an 

Integrated Strategy Puts the Army’s Asset Visibility 

System Investments at Risk 

5 

GAO-07-1029R DOD is Making Progress in Adopting Best Practices 

for the Transformational Satellite Communications 

System and Space Radar but Still Faces 

Challenges 

 1 

GAO-07-1048R DOD Should Provide Congress and the American 

Public with Monthly Data on Enemy-Initiated 

Attacks in Iraq in a Timely Manner 

1 

GAO-07-234 DOD’s High-Risk Areas: Progress Made 

Implementing Supply Chain Management 

Recommendations, but Full Extent of Improvement 

Unknown 

2 

GAO-07-774 Elections: Action Plans Needed to Fully Address 

Challenges in Electronic Absentee Voting Initiatives 

for Military and Overseas Citizens 

4 

GAO-07-854 Emergency Management Assistance Compact: 

Enhancing EMAC’s Collaborative and 

Administrative Capacity Should Improve National 

Disaster Response 

 1 

GAO-07-211 Force Structure: Joint Seabasing Would Benefit 

from a Comprehensive Management Approach and 

Rigorous Experimentation before Services Spend 

Billions on New Capabilities 

9 2 

GAO-07-851 Human Capital: DOD Needs Better Internal 

Controls and Visibility over Costs for Implementing 

Its National Security Personnel System 

3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-07-205 Hurricane Katrina: Agency Contracting Data Should 

Be More Complete Regarding Subcontracting 

Opportunities for Small Businesses 

2 

GAO-07-696 Influenza Pandemic: DOD Combatant Commands’ 

Preparedness Efforts Could Benefit from More 

Clearly Defined Roles, Resources, and Risk 

Mitigation 

 4 

GAO-07-528 Information Security: Selected Departments Need 

to Address Challenges in Implementing Statutory 

Requirements 

6 

GAO-07-51 Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure 

That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is 

Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers 

2 

GAO-07-360 Joint Strike Fighter: Progress Made and Challenges 

Remain 

1 

GAO-07-641 Military Base Closures: Management Strategy 

Needed to Mitigate Challenges and Improve 

Communication to Help Ensure Timely 

Implementation of Air National Guard 

Recommendations 

3 

GAO-07-166 Military Base Closures: Opportunities Exist to 

Improve Environmental Cleanup Cost Reporting 

and to Expedite Transfer of Unneeded Property 

2 

GAO-07-304 Military Base Closures: Projected Savings from 

Fleet Readiness Centers Likely Overstated and 

Actions Needed to Track Actual Savings and 

Overcome Certain Challenges 

 2 

GAO-07-1040 Military Base Realignments and Closures: Plan 

Needed to Monitor Challenges for Completing More 

Than 100 Armed Forces Reserve Centers 

1 

GAO-07-647 Military Health Care: TRICARE Cost-Sharing 

Proposals Would Help Offset Increasing Health 

Care Spending, but Projected Savings Are Likely 

Overestimated 

1 

GAO-07-195 Military Health: Increased TRICARE Eligibility for 

Reservists Presents Educational Challenges 

1 

GAO-07-549 Military Operations: Actions Needed to Improve 

DOD’s Stability Operations Approach and Enhance 

Interagency Planning 

7 

GAO-07-145 Military Operations: High-Level DOD Action 

Needed to Address Long-standing Problems with 

Management and Oversight of Contractors 

Supporting Deployed Forces 

7 

GAO-07-699 Military Operations: The Department of Defense’s 

Use of Solatia and Condolence Payments in Iraq 

and Afghanistan 

 2 

GAO-07-608 Military Pay: Processes for Retaining Injured Army 

National Guard and Reserve Soldiers on Active 

Duty Have Been Improved, but Some Challenges 

Remain 

2 4 

GAO-07-259 Military Personnel: Additional Actions Needed to 

Improve Oversight of Reserve Employment Issues 

1 2 

GAO-07-1138R Military Personnel: Air National Guard Has Taken 

Steps to Improve the Reliability of Personnel 

Strength Data, but More Needs to Be Done 

3 

GAO-07-372R Military Personnel: DMDC Data on Officers’ 

Commissioning Programs is Insufficiently Reliable 

and Needs to be Corrected 

2 

GAO-07-780 Military Personnel: DOD Lacks Reliable Personnel 

Tempo Data and Needs Quality Controls to 

Improve Data Accuracy 

1 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-07-828 Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Establish a 

Strategy and Improve Transparency over Reserve 

and National Guard Compensation to Manage 

Significant Growth in Cost 

2 

GAO-07-93 Military Personnel: Reserve Components Need 

Guidance to Accurately and Consistently Account 

for Volunteers on Active Duty for Operational 

Support 

 1 

GAO-07-224 Military Personnel: Strategic Plan Needed to 

Address Army’s Emerging Officer Accession and 

Retention Challenges 

1 

GAO-07-936 Military Training: Actions Needed to More Fully 

Develop the Army’s Strategy for Training Modular 

Brigades and Address Implementation Challenges 

 6 

GAO-07-430 Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve 

Information for Supporting Future Key Decisions for 

Boost and Ascent Phase Elements 

6 

GAO-07-643 Navy Working Capital Fund: Management Action 

Needed to Improve Reliability of the Naval Air 

Warfare Center’s Reported Carryover Amounts 

2 4 

GAO-07-444 Operation Iraqi Freedom: DOD Should Apply 

Lessons Learned Concerning the Need for Security 

over Conventional Munitions Storage Sites to 

Future Operations Planning 

3 

GAO-07-498 Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: 

Restructuring Is Under Way, but Technical 

Challenges and Risks Remain 

 1 1 

GAO-07-709 Quadrennial Defense Review: Future Reviews 

Could Benefit from Improved Department of 

Defense Analyses and Changes to Legislative 

Requirements 

2 

GAO-07-60 Reserve Forces: Actions Needed to Identify 

National Guard Domestic Equipment Requirements 

and Readiness 

3 1 1 

GAO-07-1195 Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi 

Government Has Not Met Most Legislative, 

Security, and Economic Benchmarks 

2 

GAO-07-520 South Florida Ecosystem: Restoration Is Moving 

Forward but Is Facing Significant Delays, 

Implementation Challenges, and Rising Costs 

1 

GAO-07-96 Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Take More 

Action to Address Unrealistic Initial Cost Estimates 

of Space Systems 

1 1 1 

GAO-07-1088R Space Based Infrared System High Program and its 

Alternative 

 1 

GAO-07-1030 Special Operations Forces: Management Actions 

Are Needed to Effectively Integrate Marine Corps 

Forces into the U.S. Special Operations Command 

2 

GAO-07-711 Stabilizing Iraq: DOD Cannot Ensure That U.S.-

Funded Equipment Has Reached Iraqi Security 

Forces 

2 

GAO-07-415 Tactical Aircraft: DOD Needs a Joint and Integrated 

Investment Strategy 

1 1 

GAO-07-904 U.S. Public Diplomacy: Actions Needed to Improve 

Strategic Use and Coordination of Research 

2 

GAO-07-836 Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Advance Coordination 

and Increased Visibility Needed to Optimize 

Capabilities 

8 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-07-1094 Water Resources: Four Federal Agencies Provide 

Funding for Rural Water Supply and Wastewater 

Projects 

 1 

GAO-07-478 Waters and Wetlands: Corps of Engineers Needs to 

Ensure That Permit Decisions Made Using Funds 

from Nonfederal Public Entities Are Transparent 

and Impartial 

4 

Fiscal year 

2007 total 313 212 77 24 

Source: GAO.

Table 9: Status of DOD Recommendations by Report, Fiscal Year 2008

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-689 Afghanistan Reconstruction: Progress Made in 

Constructing Roads, but Assessments for 

Determining Impact and a Sustainable Maintenance 

Program Are Needed 

2 

GAO-08-991T Air Force Procurement: Aerial Refueling Tanker 

Protest 

4 

GAO-08-288 Army Corps of Engineers: Known Performance 

Issues with New Orleans Drainage Canal Pumps 

Have Been Addressed, but Guidance on Future 

Contracts Is Needed 

2 

GAO-08-714 Army Working Capital Fund: Actions Needed to 

Reduce Carryover at Army Depots 

8 

GAO-08-740 Ballistic Missile Defense: Actions Needed to 

Improve Process for Identifying and Addressing 

Combatant Command Priorities 

5 

GAO-08-294 Best Practices: Increased Focus on Requirements 

and Oversight Needed to Improve DOD’s 

Acquisition Environment and Weapon System 

Quality 

3 1 

GAO-08-52 Business Systems Modernization: Air Force Needs 

to Fully Define Policies and Procedures for 

Institutionally Managing Investments 

11 

GAO-08-53 Business Systems Modernization: Department of 

the Navy Needs to Establish Management 

Structure and Fully Define Policies and Procedures 

for Institutionally Managing Investments 

12 

GAO-08-366 Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD and VA 

Need to Improve Efforts to Identify and Notify 

Individuals Potentially Exposed during Chemical 

and Biological Tests 

6 

GAO-08-134 Chemical Demilitarization: Additional Management 

Actions Needed to Meet Key Performance Goals of 

DOD’s Chemical Demilitarization Program 

13 

GAO-08-860 Combating Terrorism: Actions Needed to Enhance 

Implementation of Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism 

Partnership 

1 

GAO-08-806 Combating Terrorism: Increased Oversight and 

Accountability Needed over Pakistan 

Reimbursement Claims for Coalition Support Funds 

1 4 

GAO-08-408 Defense Acquisitions: 2009 Is a Critical Juncture for 

the Army’s Future Combat System 

1 3 5 

GAO-08-619 Defense Acquisitions: A Knowledge-Based Funding 

Approach Could Improve Major Weapon System 

Program Outcomes 

3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-804 Defense Acquisitions: Cost to Deliver ZumwaltClass Destroyers Likely to Exceed Budget 3 

GAO-08-877 Defense Acquisitions: Department of Defense 

Needs Framework for Balancing Investments in 

Tactical Radios 

2 

GAO-08-91 Defense Acquisitions: Departmentwide Direction Is 

Needed for Implementation of the Anti-tamper 

Policy 

2 

GAO-08-298 Defense Acquisitions: DOD’s Practices and 

Processes for Multiyear Procurement Should Be 

Improved 

4 

GAO-08-1060 Defense Acquisitions: DOD’s Requirements 

Determination Process Has Not Been Effective in 

Prioritizing Joint Capabilities 

2 

GAO-08-13 Defense Acquisitions: Overcoming Challenges Key 

to Capitalizing on Mine Countermeasures 

Capabilities 

4 

GAO-08-448 Defense Acquisitions: Progress Made in Fielding 

Missile Defense, but Program Is Short of Meeting 

Goals 

5 

GAO-08-409 Defense Acquisitions: Significant Challenges Ahead 

in Developing and Demonstrating Future Combat 

System’s Network and Software 

3 2 

GAO-08-1113 Defense Acquisitions: Sound Business Case 

Needed to Implement Missile Defense Agency’s 

Targets Program 

2 

GAO-08-379 Defense Acquisitions: Termination Costs Are 

Generally Not a Compelling Reason to Continue 

Programs or Contracts That Otherwise Warrant 

Ending 

1 

GAO-08-982 Defense Budget: Independent Review Is Needed to 

Ensure DOD’s Use of Cost Estimating Tool for 

Contingency Operations Follows Best Practices 

2 

GAO-08-169 Defense Contracting: Additional Personal Conflict 

of Interest Safeguards Needed for Certain DOD 

Contractor Employees 

5 

GAO-08-360 Defense Contracting: Army Case Study Delineates 

Concerns with Use of Contractors as Contract 

Specialists 

3 1 

GAO-08-269 Defense Contracting: Contract Risk a Key Factor in 

Assessing Excessive Pass-Through Charges 

3 

GAO-08-485 Defense Contracting: Post-Government 

Employment of Former DOD Officials Needs 

Greater Transparency 

2 

GAO-08-851 Defense Critical Infrastructure: Adherence to 

Guidance Would Improve DOD’s Approach to 

Identifying and Assuring the Availability of Critical 

Transportation Assets 

4 

GAO-08-373R Defense Critical Infrastructure: DOD’s Risk Analysis 

of Its Critical Infrastructure Omits Highly Sensitive 

Assets 

2 

GAO-08-122 Defense Health Care: DOD Needs to Address the 

Expected Benefits, Costs, and Risks for Its Newly 

Approved Medical Command Structure 

3 

GAO-08-502 Defense Infrastructure: Continued Management 

Attention Is Needed to Support Installation Facilities 

and Operations 

5 

GAO-08-665 Defense Infrastructure: High-Level Leadership 

Needed to Help Communities Address Challenges 

Caused by DOD-Related Growth 

2 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-1054R Defense Infrastructure: NORAD and 

USNORTHCOM Need to Reevaluate Vulnerabilities 

Associated with Moving the NORAD Command 

Center from Cheyenne Mountain to Peterson Air 

Force Base, and to Acknowledge Acceptance of the 

Risks 

2 

GAO-08-1005 Defense Infrastructure: Opportunity to Improve the 

Timeliness of Future Overseas Planning Reports 

and Factors Affecting the Master Planning Effort for 

the Military Buildup on Guam 

2 

GAO-08-427 Defense Logistics: Navy Needs to Develop and 

Implement a Plan to Ensure That Voyage Repairs 

Are Available to Ships Operating near Guam when 

Needed 

3 

GAO-08-316R Defense Logistics: The Army Needs to Implement 

an Effective Management and Oversight Plan for 

the Equipment Maintenance Contract in Kuwait 

5 

GAO-08-1065 Defense Management: DOD Needs to Establish 

Clear Goals and Objectives, Guidance, and a 

Designated Budget to Manage Its Biometrics 

Activities 

3 

GAO-08-342 Defense Management: More Transparency Needed 

over the Financial and Human Capital Operations 

of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat 

Organization 

6 

GAO-08-426 Defense Management: Overarching Organizational 

Framework Needed to Guide and Oversee Energy 

Reduction Efforts for Military Operations 

4 

GAO-08-831 Defense Space Activities: DOD Needs to Further 

Clarify the Operationally Responsive Space 

Concept and Plan to Integrate and Support Future 

Satellites 

3 

GAO-08-704R Defense Transportation: DOD Should Ensure that 

the Final Size and Mix of Airlift Force Study Plan 

Includes Sufficient Detail to Meet the Terms of the 

Law and Inform Decision Makers 

1 

GAO-08-444R Defense Travel System: Validity of Travel 

Payments Statistical Sampling in Question 

1 

GAO-08-896 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important 

Management Controls Being Implemented on Major 

Navy Program, but Improvements Needed in Key 

Areas 

4 

GAO-08-822 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Marine 

Corps System Acquisition Needs to Be Better 

Justified, Defined, and Managed 

6 

GAO-08-972 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Navy 

Programs’ Compliance with DOD’s Federated 

Business Enterprise Architecture Needs to Be 

Adequately Demonstrated 

4 

GAO-08-519 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Military 

Departments Need to Strengthen Management of 

Enterprise Architecture Programs 

 1 

GAO-08-922 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Planned 

Investment in Navy Program to Create Cashless 

Shipboard Environment Needs to Be Justified and 

Better Managed 

12 

GAO-08-866 DOD Business Transformation: Air Force’s Current 

Approach Increases Risk That Asset Visibility Goals 

and Transformation Priorities Will Not Be Achieved 

3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-1063 DOD Financial Management: Improvements Are 

Needed in Antideficiency Act Controls and 

Investigations 

6 

GAO-08-615 DOD Health Care: Mental Health and Traumatic 

Brain Injury Screening Efforts Implemented, but 

Consistent Pre-Deployment Medical Record 

Review Policies Needed 

1 

GAO-08-350 DOD Personnel Clearances: Improved Annual 

Reporting Would Enable More Informed 

Congressional Oversight 

3 

GAO-08-327 DOD Pharmacy Program: Continued Efforts 

Needed to Reduce Growth in Spending at Retail 

Pharmacies 

2 

GAO-08-70 DOD Schools: Additional Reporting Could Improve 

Accountability for Academic Achievement of 

Students with Dyslexia 

1 

GAO-08-927R DOD Systems Modernization: Maintaining Effective 

Communication Is Needed to Help Ensure the 

Army’s Successful Deployment of the Defense 

Integrated Military Human Resources System 

1 

GAO-08-16 DOD Travel Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2006 

Reporting Was Incomplete and Planned 

Improvement Efforts Face Challenges 

4 

GAO-08-954 Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Have 

Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but 

More Work Remains 

1 

GAO-08-518 Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite 

Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on 

Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data 

Continuity 

1 

GAO-08-349 Federal Real Property: Corps of Engineers Needs 

to Improve the Reliability of Its Real Property 

Disposal Data 

5 

GAO-08-321 Federal User Fees: Substantive Reviews Needed 

to Align Port-Related Fees with the Programs They 

Support 

4 

GAO-08-145 Force Structure: Better Management Controls Are 

Needed to Oversee the Army’s Modular Force and 

Expansion Initiatives and Improve Accountability for 

Results 

6 

GAO-08-418 Force Structure: Ship Rotational Crewing Initiatives 

Would Benefit from Top-Level Leadership, Navywide Guidance, Comprehensive Analysis, and 

Improved Lessons-Learned Sharing 

8 

GAO-08-354R Force Structure—Need for Greater Transparency 

for the Army’s Grow the Force Initiative Funding 

Plan 

2 

GAO-08-68 Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to Take 

Action to Encourage Fiscal Discipline and Optimize 

the Use of Tools Intended to Improve GWOT Cost 

Reporting 

11 

GAO-08-252 Homeland Defense: Steps Have Been Taken to 

Improve U.S. Northern Command’s Coordination 

with States and the National Guard Bureau, but 

Gaps Remain 

2 

GAO-08-251 Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has 

Made Progress but Needs to Address Force 

Allocation, Readiness Tracking Gaps, and Other 

Issues 

4 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-311 Homeland Security: Enhanced National Guard 

Readiness for Civil Support Missions May Depend 

on DOD’s Implementation of the 2008 National 

Defense Authorization Act 

2 

GAO-08-596 Human Capital: Corps of Engineers Needs to 

Update Its Workforce Planning Process to More 

Effectively Address Its Current and Future 

Workforce Needs 

3 

GAO-08-773 Human Capital: DOD Needs to Improve 

Implementation of and Address Employee 

Concerns about Its National Security Personnel 

System 

4 

GAO-08-10R Improvement Continues in DOD’s Reporting on 

Sustainable Ranges, but Opportunities Exist to 

Improve Its Range Assessments and 

Comprehensive Plan 

 2 

GAO-08-374 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: 

DOD Can Better Assess and Integrate ISR 

Capabilities and Oversee Development of Future 

ISR Requirements 

2 2 

GAO-08-388 Joint Strike Fighter: Recent Decisions by DOD Add 

to Program Risks 

2 2 

GAO-08-159 Military Base Realignments and Closures: Cost 

Estimates Have Increased and Are Likely to 

Continue to Evolve 

1 

GAO-08-315 Military Base Realignments and Closures: Higher 

Costs and Lower Savings Projected for 

Implementing Two Key Supply-Related BRAC 

Recommendations 

3 

GAO-08-20 Military Base Realignments and Closures: Impact of 

Terminating, Relocating, or Outsourcing the 

Services of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 

3 

GAO-08-1137 Military Disability System: Increased Supports for 

Servicemembers and Better Pilot Planning Could 

Improve the Disability Evaluation Process 

7 

GAO-08-104 Military Health Care: Cost Data Indicate That 

TRICARE Reserve Select Premiums Exceeded the 

Costs of Providing Program Benefits 

2 

GAO-08-736R Military Operations: Actions Needed to Better Guide 

Project Selection for Commander’s Emergency 

Response Program and Improve Oversight in Iraq 

 3 

GAO-08-1087 Military Operations: DOD Needs to Address 

Contract Oversight and Quality Assurance Issues 

for Contracts Used to Support Contingency 

Operations 

4 

GAO-08-546 Military Personnel: Army Needs to Better Enforce 

Requirements and Improve Record Keeping for 

Soldiers Whose Medical Conditions May Call for 

Significant Duty Limitations 

3 

GAO-08-612R Military Personnel: Better Debt Management 

Procedures and Resolution of Stipend Recoupment 

Issues Are Needed for Improved Collection of 

Medical Education Debts 

5 

GAO-08-924 Military Personnel: DOD’s and the Coast Guard’s 

Sexual Assault Prevention and Response 

Programs Face Implementation and Oversight 

Challenges 

9 

GAO-08-1037R Military Personnel: Evaluation Methods Linked to 

Anticipated Outcomes Needed to Inform Decisions 

on Army Recruitment Incentives 

3 

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Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-370R Military Personnel: Guidance Needed for Any 

Future Conversions of Military Medical Positions to 

Civilian Positions 

1 

GAO-08-981R Military Personnel: Improvements Needed to 

Increase Effectiveness of DOD’s Programs to 

Promote Positive Working Relationships between 

Reservists and Their Employers 

3 

GAO-08-296 Military Personnel: The DOD and Coast Guard 

Academies Have Taken Steps to Address Incidents 

of Sexual Harassment and Assault, but Greater 

Federal Oversight Is Needed 

3 

GAO-08-670 Military Readiness: Joint Policy Needed to Better 

Manage the Training and Use of Certain Forces to 

Meet Operational Demands 

1 

GAO-08-264 Military Readiness: Navy Is Making Progress 

Implementing Its Fleet Response Plan, but Has Not 

Fully Developed Goals, Measures, and Resource 

Needs 

5 

GAO-08-407 Military Training: Compliance with Environmental 

Laws Affects Some Training Activities, but DOD 

Has Not Made a Sound Business Case for 

Additional Environmental Exemptions 

 1 

GAO-08-325 Military Transformation: DOD Needs to Strengthen 

Implementation of Its Global Strike Concept and 

Provide a Comprehensive Investment Approach for 

Acquiring Needed Capabilities 

8 

GAO-08-1068 Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve 

Planning and Cost Estimates for Long-Term 

Support of Ballistic Missile Defense 

6 

GAO-08-1165R NATO Enlargement: Reports on Albania and 

Croatia Respond to Senate Requirements, but 

Analysis of Financial Burdens Is Incomplete 

1 

GAO-08-930 Operation Iraqi Freedom: Actions Needed to 

Enhance DOD Planning for Reposturing of U.S. 

Forces from Iraq 

2 

GAO-08-143R Operation Iraqi Freedom: DOD Assessment of Iraqi 

Security Forces’ Units as Independent Not Clear 

Because ISF Support Capabilities Are Not Fully 

Developed 

2 

GAO-08-603 Privacy: Agencies Should Ensure That Designated 

Senior Officials Have Oversight of Key Functions 

1 

GAO-08-88 Project Bioshield: Actions Needed to Avoid 

Repeating Past Problems with Procuring New 

Anthrax Vaccine and Managing the Stockpile of 

Licensed Vaccine 

1 

GAO-08-966 Rebuilding Iraq: DOD and State Department Have 

Improved Oversight and Coordination of Private 

Security Contractors in Iraq, but Further Actions Are 

Needed to Sustain Improvements 

2 

GAO-08-1021T Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Progress 

Report: Some Gains Made, Updated Strategy 

Needed 

1 

GAO-08-837 Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Progress 

Report: Some Gains Made, Updated Strategy 

Needed 

1 

GAO-08-516 Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Making Progress to 

Rapidly Deliver Low Cost Space Capabilities, but 

Challenges Remain 

1 

GAO-08-1073 Space Acquisitions: DOD’s Goals for Resolving 

Space Based Infrared System Software Problems 

Are Ambitious 

 2 

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Enclosure I 

Recommendations 

Product 

number Product title Open 

Closedimplemented Closed-not 

implemented 

GAO-08-1039 Space Acquisitions: Uncertainties in the Evolved 

Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Pose 

Management and Oversight Challenges 

3 

GAO-08-23 State Department: Evacuation Planning and 

Preparations for Overseas Posts Can Be Improved 

1 

GAO-08-439R The Department of Defense’s Civilian Human 

Capital Strategic Plan Does Not Meet Most 

Statutory Requirements 

1 

GAO-08-901 Veterans’ Disability Benefits: Better Accountability 

and Access Would Improve the Benefits Delivery at 

Discharge Program 

3 

Fiscal year 

2008 total 381 352 18 11 

Fiscal years 

2001-2008 

grand total 3, 099 841 1878 380 

Source: GAO.

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Enclosure II 

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GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments 

GAO Contact Jack E. Edwards, (202) 512-8246 or edwardsj@gao.gov 

Staff Acknowledgments In addition to the contact named above, Ann Borseth, Assistant 

Director; Joseph Rutecki; R. Bruce Brown; George Breen, Jr.; 

Carlos Diz; Charles Perdue; Michael Willems; and Grace 

Coleman made key contributions to this report. 

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