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GAO: Navy Needs Better Systems To Share Fire Risk Lessons Learned

Tuesday, April 25th, 2023

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GAO: Navy Needs Better Systems To Share Fire Risk Lessons Learned

A fire continued to be fought into the evening on board USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) at Naval Base San Diego, July 12, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found the Navy does not have a process to consistently share lessons learned to improve behavior and reduce fire risks during ship maintenance. The April 20 report said while the Navy has a process to collect and analyze lessons learned from fire incidents via several processes, it does not have a process for consistent collecting, analyzing and sharing the lessons across the service. “As a result, the Navy has lost lessons learned over…

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