Independent Service Auditor’s Report on the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Description of Its Application Hosting and Security Systems and on the Suitability of the Design and Operating Effectiveness of Its Controls For the period October 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024

This report presents the results of the System and Organization Controls 1 Type 2 examination conducted in accordance with relevant attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) description of its data center hosting and security systems used to process user entities’ transactions throughout the period October 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. The report contains an unmodified opinion on the description and controls that were suitably designed to provide reasonable assurance that the control objectives would be achieved.