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Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (AbilityOne Program)
The U.S. AbilityOne Commission (AbilityOne) Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an investigation of employee conduct in response to a complaint received.
Agency program officials, chief information officers, and inspectors general must annually review information security programs and report to the Department of Homeland Security and Congress on agency compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA). The OIG contracted with an independent public accounting firm, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA), to evaluate VA’s information security program for FY 2024. After assessing 49 major applications and general support systems hosted at 23 VA facilities and on the VA Enterprise Cloud, CLA concluded that VA continues to face significant challenges meeting FISMA requirements because of the nature and maturity of its information security program.
The audit found continuing deficiencies related to access controls, configuration management controls, security management controls, and service continuity practices designed to protect mission-critical systems from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. These deficiencies can be remedied by addressing security-related issues that contributed to the information technology material weakness reported in the FY 2024 audit of VA’s consolidated financial statements; improving the deployment of security patches, system upgrades, and system configurations; improving performance monitoring to ensure controls operate as intended; and communicating identified security deficiencies to appropriate personnel.
Of CLA’s 23 recommendations, VA concurred with 12 and did not concur with 11. Some of the 23 recommendations addressed repeat deficiencies from previous FISMA reports spanning multiple years. CLA will follow up on the outstanding recommendations and evaluate the adequacy of corrective actions in the FY 2025 audit of VA’s information security program.
Management Assistance Report: Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services Internal Controls Associated with Reemployed Annuitant Employment
To learn how communities across the nation responded to the pandemic, we initiated a multi-part review of six communities—two cities, two rural counties, and two Tribal reservations. This report is the sixth community-specific report and focuses on our work in Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation in New Mexico, where we previously identified that recipients, including city government, small businesses, and individuals, received almost $80 million from 42 pandemic relief programs and subprograms. This report provides a closer look at ten pandemic programs and subprograms provided to Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation by six federal departments.
Audit of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services School Violence Prevention Program Grant Awarded to the Williston Basin School District, Williston, North Dakota
Management Advisory Report: Peace Corps Non-Disclosure Agreements Generally Comply with Anti-Gag Provision Requirements, but Agency Policies Need Updating
The purpose of this report is to provide the results of our survey of the Peace Corps’ compliance with the anti-gag provision requirement in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) (5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(13)). We initiated this assessment at the request of Senator Chuck Grassley. (See attached Senator Grassley Letter, dated March 11, 2024).
