Federal Reports

Opioid abuse and overdose deaths are at epidemic levels in the United States. This data brief is part of a larger strategy by the OIG to fight the opioid crisis and address one of its top priority outcomes-to protect beneficiaries from prescription drug abuse. It provides baseline data on the extent to which beneficiaries receive extreme amounts of opioids and appear to be "doctor shopping." It also identifies prescribers who have questionable opioid prescribing patterns.

We recently learned that employees in the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Office of Security Capabilities (OSC) were given internal guidance that, if followed, would improperly restrict and delay the DHS Office of Inspector General's (OIG) access to documents.

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Preventive maintenance (PM) includes tasks carried out on a predetermined interval to reduce the likelihood of a failure. Due to the importance of PM on the reliable operation of assets and as a result of findings identified related to nuclear and coal PM in previous evaluations, we initiated an evaluation of the TVA's transmission PM. The objective of our evaluation was to determine if transmission PM was performed in accordance with established schedules and, if not, what effects the deviations had. We could not determine if transmission PM had been performed in accordance with established schedules because (1) work completion dates in Maximo, TVA's work management system, did not consistently match the date the PM was completed, and (2) TVA did not require supporting documentation evidencing work completion dates to be maintained. Additionally, we reviewed documentation related to equipment failures and did not identify any failures or Load Not Served, a measure of the magnitude and duration of transmission system outages, attributed to Transmission and Power Supply PM practices.

We reported that the Indiana Department of Education did not provide adequate oversight to ensure that its system met minimum security requirements that included a creating System Security Plan, completing a compliance audit and risk assessment, and classifying its security level. We also reported that the Indiana Department of Education lacked assurance that it could prevent and detect unauthorized system access and disclosure of information.