Federal Reports

VA’s Financial Management Business Transformation Service (FMBTS) is leading and managing the implementation of the Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS), an enterprise-wide modernization effort to replace legacy systems that facilitate the department’s financial and contracting activities. FMBTS personnel are responsible for training end users, which is critical to a successful iFAMS deployment across VA. FMBTS conducts a post-training survey but does not solicit feedback on end users’ tasks and daily activities, and the timing of this survey immediately after training does not allow FMBTS to assess how users apply instruction when conducting role-specific activities in iFAMS. The VA OIG surveyed a statistical sample of 255 end users to assess satisfaction with iFAMS training. The team found that end users had concerns with the training provided for some tasks and day-to-day activities, leaving FMBTS with opportunities to enhance the training program. Addressing training weaknesses now is important because over 100,000 employees have yet to be trained on the system.

Attached is the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Semiannual Report (SAR) to Congress. This document highlights our oversight efforts from April 1, 2023 to September 30, 2023.

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide an update on the overall status of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) implementation of HUD Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Priority Open Recommendations and to transmit the attached list of Priority Open Recommendations for fiscal year (FY) 2024. Our goal is to highlight key open recommendations from prior OIG reports that if implemented, would have the greatest impact on helping HUD achieve its mission and address its top management challenges. We track HUD’s progress in addressing all OIG recommendations, including those designated as priorities, on a Recommendations Dashboard that we launched in March 2023.

Complete and accurate reporting in USAspending.gov is critical, as it is the primary way the EPA informs the public of the purpose of its federal awards and where its funding ultimately goes.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the Wilmington VA Medical Center in Delaware. This evaluation focused on five key operational areas:• Leadership and organizational risks• Quality, safety, and value• Medical staff privileging• Environment of care• Mental health (suicide prevention initiatives)The OIG issued two recommendations for improvement in the environment of care topic area:• Inspection deficiency resolution tracking• Safe and clean environment

Our objective was to evaluate the process for, cause of, and validity of refunds associated with the PRS product and examine the accuracy of manifested prices — the postage payments consolidators submit based on contractual rates. We conducted site visits and interviews and analyzed package data and consolidator refund requests.