Federal Reports

The objective of this audit was to determine the extent to which the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA’s) strategic efforts to timely develop, acquire, adopt, and maintain secure and reliable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities improved intelligence collection and analysis in accordance with applicable policies, standards, and requirements. Additionally, we assessed whether there were any administrative or technical barriers to DIA’s accelerated adoption of AI capabilities. We issued the results of our evaluation, along with ten recommendations, in a final report dated December 20, 2024.

The objective of our evaluation was to determine whether the U.S. AbilityOne Commission's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan contained the necessary framework, including specific operational initiatives, objectives, and associated performance measures.

This report presents the results of our audit of the U. S. Postal Service’s oversight of Parcel Select.

The purpose of this report is to summarize the OIG’s oversight and investigative work involving Federal student assistance programs and operations over the past 6 FYs—FY 2019 through FY 2024 and to provide the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) with context on historical areas of weakness involving internal controls. To identify common themes across internal control vulnerabilities identified during our audit work, we evaluated recommendations made in OIG reports to address those vulnerabilities and assessed their correlation with each internal control component. And, in this effort, we analyzed complaints received by the OIG Hotline specific to Federal student assistance programs and FSA operations to identify trends and fraud indicators, summarized investigative results related to student aid fraud, and assessed their correlation to internal controls. We also took a close look at a type of fraud that accounts for a large portion of our student aid fraud investigative caseload—student aid fraud rings.

The results of this effort are intended to provide context on historical areas of weakness and vulnerabilities in FSA’s internal controls identified through the OIG’s audit work and provide insight gleaned from the OIG’s investigative work on the importance of strengthening internal controls to help mitigate the risk of fraud in the Federal student assistance programs. By strengthening its internal controls, FSA can better ensure that Federal student assistance programs are carried out as required, achieve the desired results, and that vital Federal student aid assistance reach the intended recipients.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the Birmingham VA Health Care System.

This evaluation focused on five key content domains:
• Culture
• Environment of care
• Patient safety
• Primary care
• Veteran-centered safety net

The OIG issued four recommendations for improvement in two domains:
1. Environment of care
• Separation of clean and dirty equipment and supplies
• Clean and safe environment
• Communication with sensory-impaired veterans
2. Patient safety
• Identify opportunities for improvement, implement action plans, and evaluate actions for sustained improvement