Open Recommendations

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We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, develop a process to verify cost comparisons are performed in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulation as required in the Tennessee Valley Authority Fixed Wing Aircraft Standard Programs and Processes prior to scheduling fixed-wing flights.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, update the Tennessee Valley Authority Fixed Wing Aircraft Standard Programs and Processes to align with Federal Travel Regulations to include consideration of other modes of transportation capable of meeting the travel requirement as a factor to be considered when performing economic justifications.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, update the Tennessee Valley Authority Fixed Wing Aircraft Standard Programs and Processes to require Aviation Services to run the third-party operating cost and performance guide at certain intervals to obtain up-to-date costing information for use in cost comparisons or use historical flight data to establish a more accurate cost to operate fixed wing aircraft.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, develop a procedure to verify management authorizations are obtained prior to use of Tennessee Valley Authority fixed wing aircraft for travelers without blanket authorizations.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, update the Tennessee Valley Authority Fixed Wing Aircraft Standard Programs and Processes to improve compliance with the Federal Travel Regulation and provide guidance on requirements of the Office of the General Counsel approval for nonfederal travelers.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, verify all senior federal travelers and nonfederal travelers are reported in the Senior Federal Travel Reporting semiannually.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, work with applicable Tennessee Valley Authority groups to ensure complete and accurate Federal Aviation Interactive Reporting System data is being obtained and submitted to General Services Administration on a quarterly basis.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, implement a process to ensure that exceptions to restrictions for allowed passengers are documented with the Chief Executive Officer and the Office of General Counsel concurrence prior to flights.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, reinforce the requirement in the Tennessee Valley Authority Standard Programs and Processes 32.040 that Aviation Services conduct a full review of all travel related flights to ensure adequate documentation and authorization is maintained for every flight.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, develop a process to ensure Aviation Services’ approval, and executive review, occur prior to each flight.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, reinforce requirement to perform semi-annual audits.

We recommend the Senior Vice President, Resource Management and Operations Services, work with the Tennessee Valley Authority Office of General Counsel and the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors to update the Tennessee Valley Authority Board Practice “Use of TVA Aircraft” to explicitly state the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Director’s intent regarding whether all travel by Tier 1 passengers should be considered required use. If the Tennessee Valley Authority Board’s intent was not that all travel by Tier 1 passengers be considered required use travel, require all requests for use of the fixed wing aircraft to identify the travel…

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to include clearly defined, measurable, and VOCA-compliant subrecipient monitoring requirements for the timing and frequency of desk reviews and on-site visits.

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to provide substantive guidance on the nature and scope of activities monitoring personnel are expected to perform and to ensure desk reviews and on-site visits are adequately documented and the records maintained.

Work with Montana BCC to reassess its existing policies and practices for reviewing subrecipient expenditures to ensure Montana BCC has adequate controls in place for the review of subrecipient expenditures to ensure they are properly approved, allowable, and adequately supported.

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to address the issuance of management decision letters and ensure corrective action is taken on related subrecipient single audit report findings.

Work with Montana BCC to enhance its existing policies and procedures to ensure subrecipient Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) data is verified as complete and accurate.

Conduct updated market research to assess capability growth across the lunar economy and associated transportation sector since 2017

Reassess NASA’s role in, and contribution to, the commercial lunar delivery market

Finalize a management plan with clear leadership authority and responsibility that would delineate CLPS initiative performance goals and metrics that are measurable and targeted, criteria for augmented insight, a formal lessons-learned process, and any other relevant guidelines for the management plan’s implementation