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Federal Reports
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U.S. Agency for International Development
Audit of the Schedule of Expenditures, Yozmot Atid, Cooperative Agreement 72029422CA00006, Female Led Microbusiness Development for Promoting a Culture of Peace Program in West Bank and Gaza, January 1 to December 31, 2023
This report summarizes the results of our fiscal year 2024 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) evaluation and assessment of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) information security program. Our objectives were to determine whether SBA complied with FISMA and assessed the maturity of controls used to address risks in each of the nine security domains.
We found SBA generally responded to previously identified vulnerabilities and made progress in one of the nine domains, in the area of security training. The agency met the baseline in the area of incident response but fell below the baseline for an effective security program in several areas. We rated SBA’s overall information security program as “not effective.”
This fiscal year there are seven new recommendations for improvement. There are 11 open recommendations from 3 prior evaluations. Repeat recommendations from prior years were not included in this report because they have not yet been implemented. The agency successfully closed four recommendations from fiscal year 2023. SBA managers agreed with six recommendations and partially agreed with one. Their corrective actions resolved all the recommendations.
Financial Audit of the Epidemic Control Among Priority Populations Program Managed by Fondation Serovie in Haiti, Cooperative Agreement 72052120CA00004, October 1 to September 30, 2023
Financial Audit of the Higher Education Commission, Merit and Need-Based Scholarship Program (Phase II) in Pakistan, Grant 391-G-00-04-0123-12, July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023
The Office of the Inspector General identified several issues with the use and oversight of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s telework program, including missing telework agreements and inaccurate telework records, both of which are required by law for proper program administration. Additionally, we found inadequate compliance with documentation standards, which could result in inconsistent adherence to policies and inaccuracies in employee records. Finally, we identified discrepancies in some official duty stations and failure to comply with telework agreement terms, potentially resulting in incorrect locality pay. This report makes seven recommendations to strengthen the telework program’s document management and oversight processes to ensure full compliance with federal laws and regulations.
