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GAO-16-597R 1 (2016-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaakbj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 July 14, 2016 Congressional Committees Defense Nuclear Enterprise: DOD Has Established Processes for Implementing and Tracking Recommendations to Improve Leadership, Morale, and Operations The Department of Defense (DOD) has identified nuclear deterrence as its highest priority mission. In 2014, in response to several incidents involving the nation's nuclear deterrent forces and their senior leadership, the Secretary of Defense directed two reviews of DOD's nuclear enterprise. These two reviews identified problems with leadership, organization, investment, morale, policy, and procedures, as well as other shortcomings that are adversely affecting the nuclear deterrence mission. The reviews also made recommendations to address these problems. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 includes a provision for us to review DOD's process for addressing the recommendations of the nuclear enterprise reviews.1 In addition, Senate Report 114-49 includes a provision for us to review certain matters related to DOD's approach for addressing the recommendations.2 This report describes the extent to which DOD has established processes to (1) implement the recommendations of the two nuclear enterprise reviews and (2) track the implementation of these recommendations and measure the effectiveness of the actions it has taken to address them. We briefed the congressional defense committees in February 2016. This report formally transmits updated briefing slides regarding the results of our work (see enclosure). To identify DOD's processes for implementing the recommendations, tracking the progress of the implementation, and measuring the effectiveness of actions taken, we reviewed key documents, including the reports of the nuclear enterprise reviews, Strategic Command's action plan, DOD guidance (including the Secretary of Defense memo Nuclear Enterprise Review Corrective Action Implementation), and documents from the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) and the services that track the status of the recommendations. We also interviewed DOD officials regarding the processes the department and the services have developed. We compared the processes to relevant criteria from Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government-including assessing and responding to risk, using and effectively communicating quality information, and performing monitoring activities. 3 The focus of this 1See Pub. L. No. 114-92, § 1658 (2015). 2See S. Rep. No. 114-49, at 269 (2015). 3GAO, Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government, GAO-14-704G (Washington, D.C.: September 2014). These standards went into effect in October 2015, and we used them to assess DOD's activities since that time. GAO-16-597R Nuclear Enterprise Page 1

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