Federal Reports

This document discusses EAC OIG's planned oversight activities for fiscal year 2024.

The Department of Homeland Security does not have an up-to-date strategic plan to manage biometric capabilities across the Department. DHS issued a biometrics strategic framework covering 2015–2025 to address biometric capability gaps and advance biometric use across DHS.

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) provides a comprehensive framework for establishing and ensuring the effectiveness of managerial, operational, and technical controls over information technology (IT) that supports Federal operations and assets and provides a mechanism for improved oversight of Federal agency information security programs. FISMA requires the head of each agency to implement policies and procedures to cost-effectively reduce IT security risks to an acceptable level. FISMA requires agency program officials, Chief Information Officers (CIO)s, Chief Information Security Officers (CISO)s, senior agency officials for privacy, and inspectors general to conduct annual reviews of the agency’s information security program.

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, 2022, to June 30, 2023.

What OIG Evaluated:

The Office of Inspector General assessed how the Library has strengthened its digital strategy in recent years. 

What OIG Found: 
1. The Library would benefit from more clearly connecting its digital collections strategy and digitization strategy to its overall strategic planning efforts. 
2. Directional plans lack measurable performance targets associated with these strategies.
3. Reporting progress and annual performance outcomes is incomplete and inconsistent.

What OIG Recommends:

1. Maintain a connection among the overall Library Strategic Plan goals and digital collections and digitization strategies through SU directional plans.
2. Library Collections Services Group should more prominently share its processes to enable reporting on annual performance outcomes established in its Digital Collections Strategy and Digitization Strategy to facilitate ongoing awareness by Library management and continued cooperation among Library SUs.