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GAO-23-106305 1 (2023-05-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaoori0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 16, 2023 The Honorable Lloyd Austin Secretary of Defense U.S. Department of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301-1000 The Honorable Kathleen Hicks Deputy Secretary of Defense U.S. Department of Defense 1010 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301-1010 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Defense The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Defense's (DOD) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 For the same time period, DOD's recommendation implementation rate was 63 percent. As of May 2023, DOD had 1,245 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve DOD's operations. In addition to focusing on implementing GAO's recommendations, I want to call your attention to our review assessing DOD's timeliness in reviewing our draft reports. The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 included a provision requiring GAO to report periodically to Congress on the extent to which DOD has provided agency comments and sensitivity and security reviews in a timely manner and in accordance with our protocols.3 I ask for your continued support in addressing this issue moving forward, as some GAO teams have continued to experience significant delays obtaining the department's official comments on and 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). 3The statute also requires DOD to identify factors that contributed to any delays and to describe plans for improvement in follow-on reports to Congress. See Pub. L. No. 117-263, § 1064 (2022). GAO-23-106305 DOD Priority Recommendations Page 1

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