GAO Report on Strengthening DOD’s Oversight and Monitoring of Privatized Housing

The Government Accountability Office released a Preliminary Recommendations to Strengthen DOD’s Oversight and Monitoring of Privatized Housing report, which outlines the range of assessments and data collection used by the Office of the Secretary of the Defense. Specifically, GAO’s draft report notes:

• The military departments conduct some oversight of the physical condition of housing, but some efforts have been limited in scope;
• Military departments use performance metrics to monitor private partners, but metrics do not provide meaningful information on the condition of housing;
• The military departments and private partners collect maintenance data on homes, but these data are not captured reliably or consistently; and
• DOD provides reports to Congress on the status of privatized housing, but some data in these reports are unreliable, leading to misleading results.