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Department of Homeland Security
Management Alert Regarding Inspector General Access to Information
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.
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.
First Coast Service Options, Inc., did not claim $96,000 of allowable fiscal intermediary and carrier contract Medicare postretirement benefit costs on its Final Administrative Cost Proposals for fiscal years 2008 and 2009.
First Coast Service Options, Inc., understated the Medicare segment postretirement benefit costs by $50,000 and overstated the Other segment postretirement benefit costs used to calculate its indirect cost rates by $3.4 million for calendar years 2008 through 2012.
