Military Readiness: Comprehensive Approach Needed to Address Service Member Fatigue and Manage Related Efforts

When service members don’t get enough sleep, it can affect their performance. Fatigue has led to fatal accidents and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to ships, vehicles, and aircraft.

The Department of Defense (DOD) has developed guidance on managing fatigue, but it hasn’t identified an office or individual to oversee it or assigned leadership to oversee service-level efforts. Doing so will make its efforts more accountable DOD-wide.