Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Manager, PPPO:7. Enhance communication down and across the entity's reporting line to readily obtain and provide evidence necessary to support the internal controls systems and demonstrate that "stale" undelivered order balances are still valid as of the year-end financial reporting date.

The Central Texas VA Health Care System Director reviews the privileging and professional practice evaluation processes and performance indicators for nurse practitioners granted full practice authority in specialty care clinics to ensure compliance with current Veterans Health Administration policy and quality of care.

The Central Texas VA Health Care System Director ensures that facility leaders communicate expectations related to low-dose computed tomography scans for lung cancer screening to facility primary care providers.

(U) Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended the Commander, U.S. European Command, direct the Office of Defense Cooperation-Kyiv and the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine to ensure compliance with the DoD Leahy Law by collecting the information the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine needs to verify that Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel who arrive for DoD training belong to a Leahy-vetted unit.

(U) Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended the Commander, U.S. European Command, direct the Office of Defense Cooperation-Kyiv and the Security Assistance Group-Ukraine to develop, document, and implement internal controls to ensure that before attending training, Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel are assigned to units and commanders, at the battalion level or below, that received Leahy vetting and approval.

Embassy Baghdad should update its Leahy vetting standard operating procedure in accordance with the requirements of the Leahy Vetting Guide.

Embassy Baghdad should bring consular crisis preparedness at the Baghdad and Erbil Consular Sections into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should expand the American Liaison Network in Baghdad and Erbil in accordance with Department standards.

The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, in coordination with Embassy Baghdad and the Bureaus of Counterterrorism; Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Economic and Business Affairs; International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; International Security and Nonproliferation; Political-Military Affairs; and Population, Refugees, and Migration, should implement a process to confirm that monitoring data for foreign assistance programs in Iraq is recorded in the official system of record as required by Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should manage its armored vehicles in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should bring its management of expendable property and fuel deliveries into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad, in coordination with the Bureau of Global Talent Management, should update the mission's local compensation plan, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should comply with mandatory training requirements for Diplomatic Post Office staff.

Embassy Baghdad should upload to the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset all diplomatic notes it prepares and receives in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Baghdad should manage mission records in accordance with Department standards.

The assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer to develop and implement a strategy with milestones for identifying all VA websites, confirm their inclusion in VA’s Web Registry as the current system designated by policy, and certify the accuracy of entries annually or as changes occur.

The assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer to establish a mechanism for web communication offices across VA to enforce the implementation of VA Handbook 6102 related to Section 508 compliance.

The assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer to coordinate with VA under secretaries and other assistant secretaries to ensure system owners are educated on VA Directive 6221 and its accompanying handbook requirements to request accessibility audits.

The assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer to update, recertify, and republish VA Directives 6221 (accessible information and communications technology) and 6404 (systems inventory).

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We recommend that the Indian Health Service develop policies and procedures to communicate to Tribes that HHS employees assigned to Tribal health programs met the background investigation requirements of the ICPFVPA and inform Tribes that Federal background investigation criminal history results may not cover more stringent character standards that Tribes may adopt as allowed by the ICPFVPA.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service provide Tribes with documentation that confirms that current HHS employees assigned to Tribal health programs met all background investigation requirements of the ICPFVPA.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service develop and offer a nationwide training seminar to Tribes on background investigation requirements of the ICPFVPA.