Coast Guard: actions needed to evaluate the effectiveness of organizational changes and determine workforce needs : report to congressional requesters / United States Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Coast Guard--Organization.

United States.

United States. Coast Guard--Personnel management.

United States. Coast Guard--Operational readiness.

United States. Coast Guard.

Operational readiness (Military science).

Organization--Evaluation.

Personnel management--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 55 pages) : color illustrations, color map

Other Title:

GAO-20-223 Coast Guard modernization

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2020.

Summary:

The Coast Guard is a multi-mission maritime military service responsible for maritime safety, security, and environmental protection, among other things. Since 2006 the Coast Guard has implemented organizational changes to improve its effectiveness and efficiency. During this time, the Coast Guard also created a workforce assessments process to determine the number of personnel and skills required to meet mission needs. In April 2018, the Coast Guard reported to Congress that it was operating below the workforce necessary to meet its mission needs. Among other things, this report examines the extent to which the Coast Guard (1) applied key practices for agency reorganization and (2) has assessed its workforce needs. GAO is making six recommendations, including that the Coast Guard measure progress in achieving the goal of modernization, update a plan with time frames and milestones for completing its workforce assessment goal, and obtain information on the resources needed to meet its goal.

Contents:

Background

Coast Guard realigned operations and mission support functions, but did not consistently apply key reform practices to modernization effort

Coast Guard has assessed a small portion of its workforce needs and does not have the information needed to achieve its manpower assessment goal

Conclusions

Recommendations for executive action

Agency comments and our evaluation

Appendices.

Notes:

"February 2020."

"GAO-20-223."

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed March 4, 2020).

OCLC:

1142968947