Open Recommendations

Review and update POA&Ms at least quarterly as required by SOP 90 47 6.

Implement an automated process to document and monitor system changes as recommended by NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5.

Address the 31 POA&Ms identified as of June 21, 2022, associated with NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 control SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Review the 179 PPP loans, totaling approximately $684 million, for compliance with affiliation and size standards to ensure eligibility requirements were met and seek remedy or repayment for all loans deemed ineligible.

Seek remedy or repayment of a PPP loan in the amount of $3.5 million.

We recommend that Inter Valley Health Plan, Inc. refund to the Federal Government the $5,372,998 of estimated net overpayments.

We recommend that Inter Valley Health Plan, Inc. continue to enhance its policies and procedures to prevent, detect, and correct noncompliance with Federal requirements for diagnosis codes that are used to calculate risk-adjusted payments.

We recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services ensure that it and its components fully implement the covered agency responsibilities found in GDA section 759(a)

We recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services maintain an inventory of all geospatial data assets, per section 759(b) of the GDA; and

We recommend that CPB management recover $9,106 in CSG overpayments.

Rec. 7: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Commander of Contracts, Marine Corps System Command, develop and distribute guidance requiring contracting officials to obtain and document in the acquisition plan or contract file the potential for cost-reimbursement contracts to transition to firm-fixed-price contracts to the maximum extent practicable, including the nature of cost-reimbursement contracts and the inability to transition to a firm-fixed-price contract.

Update the Enhanced Strategic Workforce Planning: Office Director and Regional Administrator Guidance to provide specific methodologies, detailed instructions, measurement criteria, and scales that can be used to estimate the anticipated level of workload change, ranking of position risk factors, and prioritization of workforce gaps or surpluses;

Update the Enhanced Strategic Workforce Planning: Office Director and Regional Administrator Guidance to incorporate attrition rates so that the NRC quantifies and considers non-retirement separations in workforce planning.

Update agency policy and procedures to include Human Capital Operating Plan information—specifically, information regarding the periodicity of the plan’s review, approval, and updating—in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management’s Human Capital Operating Plan Guidance: Fiscal Years 2022-2026.

Implement a centralized, interactive, and user-friendly system for administering data exchanges.

Submit legislative proposals in Fiscal Year 2024 for data the Agency does not have the authority to obtain.

Refund to the Federal Government the portion of the estimated $42,336,162 for hospice services that did not comply with Medicare requirements and that are within the 4-year claims reopening period.

Exercise reasonable diligence to identify, report and return any overpayments in accordance with the 60-day rule and identify any of those returned overpayments as having been made in accordance with this recommendation.

OIG recommends that U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, develop, implement, document, and communicate a policy and procedures to secure the keys and limit access to the destruction yard holding area at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center to only those people who need access to the area.

OIG recommends that U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, take actions to ensure that all existing property in storage facilities has been (a) affixed with a barcode label and (b) added into the Integrated Logistics Management System - Asset Management module.

OIG recommends that the Bureau of Administration conduct a review of the integration of the Integrated Logistics Management System - Asset Management and the Computerized Maintenance Management System to ensure that all updated information is being communicated between systems.

OIG recommends that U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, determine (a) how many of the 15,785 nonexpendable property assets, valued at $7.6 million, were used, how many remain in storage, and how many have been disposed of, along with the reasons for disposal, and (b) whether maintaining these 15,785 assets in storage is necessary and reasonable.

OIG recommends that U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, develop, implement, document, and communicate a policy and procedures, consistent with 14 Foreign Affairs Manual 412, to require that personnel responsible for purchasing clearly demonstrate a bona fide need supporting the purchase of nonexpendable property.

OIG recommends that Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, in coordination with the Bureau of Administration, develop, implement, document, and communicate a policy and procedures to provide information and periodic training to U.S. Embassy Baghdad staff who manage nonexpendable property on the capabilities and proper use of the Integrated Logistics Management System - Analytics module to ensure that the embassy efficiently manages and utilizes existing nonexpendable property at post and properly procures nonexpendable property that the embassy needs.

ACF should improve Head Start grant recipients' self-reporting of incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, and unauthorized release through better guidance and stronger consequences for failure to report.