Open Recommendations

We recommend the Executive Associate Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations analyze migrant U.S. release address data on a recurring basis to identify trends, such as recurring and uninhabitable addresses, and share known address concerns with U.S. Border Patrol.

Create a single Service-wide comprehensive digitalization strategy that identifies priorities, objectives, interim target dates, milestones, etc. The strategy should identify the IRS business units responsible for the applicable actions and should be updated annually.

Develop processes to require management to track digitalization efforts and compare results against the plans, goals, objectives, milestone dates, etc., and analyze any significant deviations to identify needed strategic changes.

Provide guidance to delegated authorities on what constitutes a violation of the benzene fenceline monitoring regulations to assist the delegated authorities in taking action when a violation may have occurred.

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Update the agency's policies and procedures to reflect security controls identified in National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53, Revision 5.

Develop a formal and clear guidance on the roles, responsibilities, and expectations for the inclusion of applications within Earth Venture Class projects.

Develop a methodology for funding applications in Earth Venture Class projects.

CMS should Ensure that HHAs submit required OASIS assessments whentheir patients are hospitalized

CMS should take steps to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the HHA-reported OASIS data used to calculate the falls with major injury quality measure.

CMS should explore whether improvements to the quality measure related to falls can also be used to improve the accuracy of other home health measures.

CMS should ese data sources, in addition to OASIS assessments, to improve the accuracy of the quality measure related to falls with major injury.

Take steps to ensure that periodic supervisory reviews are conducted on a consistent basis and that case files i.nclude documentation of supervisory approvals.

Build upon its efforts to increase referrals of patient abuse or neglect.

Implement a comprehensive case management system that allows for efficient access to case documents and information.

Continue efforts to hire a second-line supervisor and assess whether additional supervisors are warranted to meet the Unit's oversight needs.

4. We recommend the NOAA Deputy Undersecretary of Operations direct the Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services ensure the program defines and provides guidance to the spacecraft contractor on the expected level of documentation and artifacts necessary to support verifications.

We recommend that the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) update and revise AOC Order 34-45 (Personal Property Manual) to (1) establish a dollar threshold for accountable property, (2) the greatest extent possible, ensure mission critical non-consumable property is consistently defined across AOC jurisdictions, (3) provide guidance on how to identify, document and track mission critical non-consumable and non-accountable property, (4) provide clear directions on administrative controls and (5) develop and enforce additional inventory and accountability procedures for accountable and non-accountable property to reduce the risk of mismanagement and lost property in accordance with federal best practices.

Review system processing of names to reduce inaccurate name mismatches.

We noted that in OIG Audit Report No. 17-AUD-15, a suggestion was made to “modify NARA's SDLC methodology to align it better for agile projects” that has not been addressed. In addition to resolving this issue, we recommend NARA’s Information Services review and update the SDLC Methodology to ensure it reflects current NARA practices related to system development methodologies utilized at the agency. NARA should modify the description of their SDLC methodology processes to be more agile, by adopting the cyclical approach described in GAO’s Agile Assessment Guide – Best Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation. The system development process…

We recommend NARA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer finalize Interim Guidance 400-5, Capitalization Policy for NARA Assets on capitalization of costs for Software Development Projects and enhance to address the scenario where programming and development for internal software is outsourced to external contractors. This should include the types of costs to be capitalized, materiality, and documentation requirements.

OIG recommends that the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) Senior Coordinating Official, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs and the Joint Executive Office for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, develop and implement a strategic performance management approach to improve the outcomes of the Afghan SIV program, including establishing goals and measures of success to evaluate progress against those established goals.