Federal Reports

The Fiscal Year 2022 Oversight Plan reflects the priority work that the OIG believes is necessary to keep the EPA, the CSB, and Congress fully informed about issues relating to the administration of Agency programs and operations. It is also important to note that our planning efforts are not static and that the projects included herein may be modified throughout the year as challenges and risks for the EPA and the CSB evolve and emerge.When originally issued on December 14, 2021, this document counted Audit of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System Configuration-Management and Access-Control Compliance as an ongoing rather than a planned project. We updated the document on December 16, 2021, to accurately reflect the status of the project. This correction changed the number of planned projects for the EPA to 43 and ongoing projects for the EPA to 24.

For our final report on the evaluation of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network's (NPSBN's) security architecture, our objective was to assess the NPSBN's security risks resulting from its security architecture. We contracted with The MITRE Corporation (MITRE)—an independent firm—to perform this evaluation. Our office oversaw the progress of this evaluation to ensure that MITRE performed the evaluation in accordance with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency’s Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation (January 2012) and contract terms. However, MITRE is solely responsible for the attached report and conclusions expressed in it.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report provides a descriptive evaluation of Veterans Health Administration facilities’ leadership and organizational risks. The report focuses on executive leadership position stability and engagement, accreditation surveys and oversight inspections, factors related to possible lapses in care, and Veterans Health Administration performance data.This report describes observations from healthcare inspections performed at 36 VHA medical facilities from November 4, 2019, through September 21, 2020. Each inspection involved interviews with facility leaders and staff and reviews of administrative processes. The OIG reviewers evaluated meeting minutes and other relevant documents. The results in this report are a snapshot of VHA performance at the time of the fiscal year 2020 OIG reviews.The OIG found that leaders were generally knowledgeable about their facilities and various performance metrics and could speak to actions taken to improve their respective facility’s performance. The OIG observed that lower complexity facilities had fewer reported sentinel events than higher complexity facilities.