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GAO: DoD’s Ground Readiness Increased, Sea Readiness Decreased In Recent Years

GAO: DoD’s Ground Readiness Increased, Sea Readiness Decreased In Recent Years
USS Carl Vinson (CV-70) departed Dry Dock 6 on April 6, 2020 after spending 14 months undergoing a Docking Planned Incremental Availability period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Pentagon experienced an increase in readiness in the ground domain and a decrease in the sea domain in recent years, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, with the auditors also pushing for the department to adopt new metrics for measuring full-spectrum operations.  The new report, mandated by the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, examined readiness between FY ‘17 and ‘19 and cited a range of ongoing readiness challenges across the warfighting domains. For the…

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