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GAO-11-746R 1 (2011-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanyz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AGA ~GA 0 4 A aointablty I Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 7, 2011 Congressional Committees Subject: Military Readiness: Navy's Report to Congress on the Impact of Training and Crew Size on Surface Force Material Readiness Since 2000, the Navy has undertaken a number of initiatives to achieve greater efficiencies and reduce costs. For example, it reduced the workforce requirements for some of its ships and transitioned away from instructor-led training programs to more computer-based training. In June 2010, we reported' the Navy lacked a firm analytical basis for some of the reductions it made to ship crew sizes and therefore could not be assured it had appropriately sized its crews to maintain material readiness and accomplish necessary tasks aboard its ships. We also reported the Navy lacked outcome-based performance measures to evaluate the impact of changes to training on trainees' job performance, knowledge, skills, and abilities once they report to their ships and therefore could not fully determine the effectiveness of the training changes it implemented and whether further adjustments were necessary. We recommended the Navy validate the underlying assumptions and standards it uses to calculate workforce requirements and, as necessary, based on this assessment, reevaluate its cruiser and destroyer workload requirements. We also recommended the Navy develop additional metrics to measure the effectiveness of its training. The Navy concurred with our recommendations. Citing our previous work and other sources, the House Armed Services Committee has expressed concern about the material readiness of the Navy's surface combatant ships. In House Report 111-491, which accompanied a proposed bill for the Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5136), the committee directed the Secretary of the Navy to submit a report that describes the impact that changes in training and reductions in crew size have had on the material readiness of its ships, including the ships' ability to perform required maintenance tasks and pass required inspections; 'GAO, Military Readiness: Navy Needs to Reassess Its Metrics and Assumptions for Ship Crewing Requirements and Training, GAO-10-592 (Washington, D.C.: June 9, 2010). GAO-11-746R Military Readiness

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