Federal Reports

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (the Act) requires the Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) to use predictive modeling and other analytics technologies (fraud-detection models) to identify improper Medicare Fee-for-Service claims that providers submit and prevent the payment of such claims. To fulfill this requirement, the Department designated the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop and implement the Fraud Prevention System (FPS).

The Postal Service has recognized the need to improve its ability to identify, document, configure, and manage software licenses throughout their lifecycle. In July 2015, the Postal Service approved an investment of about $35 million for a software asset management program, which includes software discovery, centralized inventory license management, and a new IT Asset Management group within IT with the responsibility for making strategic software-related decisions. Our objective was to determine whether the Postal Service’s software license management program is functioning according to Postal Service standards and industry best practices.

Each year roughly 48 million people in the United States get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. To protect against foodborne illnesses, FDA inspects food facilities to ensure both food safety and compliance with regulations. Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which enabled FDA to focus more on preventing food safety problems rather than reacting to them after the fact. FSMA requires FDA to inspect domestic food facilities within certain timeframes.

Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City, MO, fulfills stamp orders from postal retail units. Retail units are responsible for identifying and locating missing stamp stock shipments. When retail units do not resolve discrepancies timely, Accounting Services records an expense to the units for the difference. Our objective was to determine whether internal controls over stamp stock shipments were in place and effective at the Central Square Post Office, Cambridge, MA.

Seek link below for the full report, report summary, multimedia or any agency follow-up.

The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 (RCA)1 authorizes the CFTC to consolidate financial and performance management reports and to provide information in a meaningful and useful format for Congress, the President, and the public. The RCA requires the Inspector General to summarize the “most serious management and performance challenges facing the agency” and briefly assess the Agency’s progress in addressing those challenges.2 This memorandum fulfills our duties under the RCA.

Due to its classified nature, this report cannot be released publicly. The OIG has therefore released a 3-page public summary describing the information it contains.

Complainant is a Senior Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. For 20 years, he worked in a variety of investigative and protective duties until his security clearance was suspended in 2013. Complainant reported to us that the Secret Service suspended and revoked his security clearance as retaliation for disclosing alleged violations of federal antidiscrimination laws and for separately reporting abuse of authority on the part of his former Special Agent in Charge and other officials. As a result of these security clearance actions, the Secret Service placed Complainant on administrative leave and then indefinite suspension without pay, his current status with the agency.Underpinning this matter are allegations of whistleblower retaliation by adverse security clearance action. For the first time within the Department of Homeland Security, under Presidential Policy Directive 19 (PPD-19), we have substantiated an instance of retaliation related to security clearance actions.