The next is the October Authorities Accountability Workplace report, Particular Operation Forces: Higher Information Essential to Enhance Oversight and Tackle Command and Management Challenges.
From the report
What GAO Discovered
U.S. Particular Operations Command (USSOCOM) has established a wide range of command and management (C2) buildings to handle its Particular Operations Forces (SOF). In calendar yr 2021, USSOCOM reported that it had 28 energetic SOF C2 buildings, primarily within the Center East (Central Command) and Africa (Africa Command). From calendar years 2018 by 2021, USSOCOM reported that it terminated or transitioned 57 SOF C2 buildings.
USSOCOM has recognized three challenges with its oversight of SOF C2 buildings, together with: (1) appropriately sizing or terminating; (2) sustaining SOF coaching and preparedness; and (3) staffing. USSOCOM has taken actions to handle these challenges, together with mission and organizational modifications; evaluations of SOF necessities; and bettering administration of deployments. Whereas these are constructive steps, it’s too quickly for GAO to find out whether or not these modifications, and USSOCOM’s dedication to additional enhancements, are enough to handle the challenges it faces with oversight of SOF C2 buildings.
USSOCOM’s oversight of its C2 buildings is hindered by restricted information similar to an absence of an ordinary terminology to outline C2 buildings and no requirement to have a centralized information assortment mechanism for available and full data. As such, there’s not a constant strategy to decide the composition of SOF C2 buildings throughout the enterprise and preserve accountability of personnel assigned to SOF C2 buildings. Moreover, the decentralized information collected by the SOF C2 buildings themselves might not be maintained. By utilizing an ordinary terminology and establishing a centralized information assortment mechanism, DOD may enhance transparency of its SOF C2 buildings, which might additional improve oversight performed by DOD and different entities, such because the Congress.
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